‘That’s what you should be writing a book about,’ she said, and she was right.” “I was working on proposals for two other book projects,” he recalled, “but my wife heard the show and she particularly liked one thing that I said. During our conversation, Marcus said that the book came about after he’d been interviewed for an NPR Weekend Edition segment on Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks tour. In his latest book, When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison, Greil Marcus reflects on one of his favorite artists in a style quite different from recent work like The Shape of Things to Come and classics like Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces.
“Music-any art-is there to give us more freedom, not take it away.”
