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2008 sees the release of Keep It Simple, the 35th album which Van Morrison has produced himself. Morrison`s first new album of new material since 2005, and the first in several years in which he penned all 11 songs specifically for one album. On this new record, Morrison honours all his varied influences - jazz, folk, blues, Ulster Scots, country, soul and gospel (even making uniquely innovative use of the mighty ukulele) - at times melding them all together at once in his own signature sound. Keep It Simple does not boast the big horns or string arrangements of some of Morrison`s previous work. What it does feature are gorgeous songs rich with emotion, depth and beauty. Van has journeyed far and wide since his early days in Belfast but inevitably, the man Bob Geldof called "the one true genius in Irish music" has invariably come back to the philosophy summed up in the title of his new record. (Lost Highway)
