''Live at Austin City Limits Festival'' by Northern Irish singer-songwriter

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is a limited edition live album recorded from the

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concert at which he was the first night headliner on 15 September 2006. It has only been made available at live Van Morrison concerts and from the Van Morrison official website. The September appearance at the Austin City Limits Festival was at the closing end of a tour to promote his 2006 released

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''. The tour had begun on 7 March 2006 with Morrison's first ever concert at the famed Ryman Auditorium. His performance at the festival was rated as one of the 10 Best Shows at Austin City Limits by ''

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'' and the two disc CD features the complete concert.

Track listing

(All songs by Van Morrison, except as noted)

Disc one

#" Back on Top" – 5:45 #"

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" (Earl J. Carson) – 3:06 #"Playhouse" – 5:30 #" Days Like This" – 3:02 #"

Muleskinner Blues "Blue Yodel no. 8, Mule Skinner Blues" (a.k.a. "Muleskinner Blues", and "Muleskinner's Blues") is a classic Country music, country song written by Jimmie Rodgers (country singer), Jimmie Rodgers. The song was first recorded by Rodgers in 1930 and ...

" (

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, Georgie Vaughn) – 5:49 #"In the Midnight" – 5:24 #"

Bright Side of the Road "Bright Side of the Road" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1979 album ''Into the Music''. It was also one of the outtakes that made up the 1998 compilation album, '' The Philosopher's Stone'' ...

" – 4:29 #"Don't You Make Me High" (Daniel Barker, Ken Harris) – 3:05 #" Cleaning Windows" – 4:37 #" I Can't Stop Loving You" ( Don Gibson) – 5:32

Disc two

#" Real Real Gone/ You Send Me" (Morrison), (

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) – 5:36 #" Saint James Infirmary" (traditional arranged by Morrison) – 5:28 #"

Moondance ''Moondance'' is the third studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was released on 27 January 1970 by Warner Bros. Records. After the commercial failure of his first Warner Bros. album ''Astral Weeks'' (1968), Morris ...

" – 6:20 #" It's All in the Game/You Know What They're Writing About/Make It Real One More Time" ( Charles Dawes,

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), (Morrison) – 7:21 #" Precious Time" – 3:52 #"Don't Start Crying Now/Custard Pie" (James Moore, Jerry West), (

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) – 5:23 #" Wild Night" – 4:18 #"

Brown Eyed Girl "Brown Eyed Girl" is a song by Northern Irish singer and songwriter Van Morrison. Written by Morrison and recorded in March 1967 for Bang Records owner and producer Bert Berns, it was released as a single in June of the same year on the Bang la ...

" – 4:21 #"

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" – 8:46

Personnel

*Van Morrison – vocals,

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, ampli-coustic guitar, harmonica *Tony Fitzgibbon – violin *John Allair –

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*Ned Edwards – electric guitar *

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– electric guitar * Cindy Cashdollar – pedal steel,

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* David Hayes – bass *Neal Wilkinson – drums *Crawford Bell – backing vocals, acoustic guitar, trumpet *Karen Hammill – backing vocals *Janeen Daly – backing vocals

Notes

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