Van Morrison: Tupelo Honey
Tupelo Honey
is the fifth studio album
by Northern
Irish singer-songwriter
Van Morrison
It was released in October 1971
by Warner Bros. Records.
Morrison had written
all of the songs on
the album in
Woodstock, New York,
before his move to
Marin County, California,
except for
"You're My Woman",
which he wrote during
the recording sessions.
Recording began
at the beginning of
the second quarter of 1971
at the Wally Heider Studios,
San Francisco.
Morrison moved to
the Columbia Studios in
May 1971 to
complete the album.
The namesake for the album
and its title track is
a varietal honey produced
from the flowers
of the tupelo tree
found in the
Southeastern United States.
The album features
various musical genres,
most prominently country,
but also R&B, soul,
folk-rock and blue-eyed soul.
The lyrics echo the domestic bliss
portrayed on the album cover;
they largely describe and celebrate
the rural surroundings of
Woodstock and
Morrison's family life
with then-wife
Janet "Planet" Rigsbee.
Tupelo Honey
received most of
its success in America;
it charted at number 27
on the Billboard charts
and in 1977
it was certified gold
by the RIAA.
It failed to reach any of
the European or
other world-wide charts.
The album yielded two hit singles,
the hymn-like title track,
as well as the R&B-flavored
"Wild Night".
The third released single,
"(Straight to Your Heart) Like a Cannonball",
was less successful
and did not enter
the Billboard Hot 100.
The album received
mostly positive reviews
from music critics
at the time of its release,
but Morrison's biographers
were less favorable
towards it in later years.
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