Van Morrison – Hard Nose The Highway (E/VG+) – LP, UK 1989

Hard Nose The Highway is an LP by Van Morrison from 1989 released on the Polydor label.

About this album

Hard Nose The Highway finds Van Morrison broadening his sound without losing his instinct for direct, spiritually charged songwriting. Issued in 1973, the album moves between soul, blues-rock and folkier reflection, with moments of grit and warmth that suit Morrison’s restless voice and vivid phrasing. Songs such as Warm Love and the title track show his ability to balance tenderness with a harder-edged drive, while the record’s shifting moods underline the experimental streak that had become central to his work in the early 1970s. It remains an important entry in a catalogue full of peaks, revealing an artist unwilling to settle into one style for long.