P.S. While we are on the subject of water, I REALLY think U should react to the Billy Joel song: River of Dreams... it's insanely great (to borrow a phrase)... not to be missed!!
Yeah, it's about ejoying the moment, enjoying life. "High on life" as they say. That's what "just like Jelly Roll" means, how he ejoyed his misic. You could say all this great music is stoning Jamel :)
I was really wondering and hoping you were going to go there and understand the song but you didn't. It's not about drugs or alcohol. It's about being high on life, he says stoned me to my Soul. Stoned is just a metaphor for how he was feeling and it hit his soul so deep, like Jellyroll the blues singer made him feel.The first time I heard this on headphones it stoned me too it blew me away because I knew what his singing about and it wasn't drugs. If you listen to him and feel his music it's so spiritual it's really like a transcendental experience. He's singing about nature and his boyhood experiences, there's a theme of water, fishing in the stream and jumping in, then getting the gift of water from the stream, it's all outdoors. I still love watching you react to my favorite songs but you misinterpreted this one my brother.
He's describing how wonderful it is to be a kid and live in the moment. It's better than any 'high'. He's overwhelmed to his very soul of the beauty of the moment.
Everyone takes their own meaning from this song. I agree with you. Water is magic, healing, life-giving, be it rain, a mountain stream, the ocean, or a bath. We are made of water, born from water in the womb.
NOT drugs. "As Morrison biographer Ritchie Yorke described it, the song remembered "how it was when you were a kid and just got stoned from nature and you didn't need anything else".[3] Morrison, in 1985, related the song to a quasi-mystical experience he had as a child: I suppose I was about 12 years old. We used to go to a place called Ballystockart to fish. We stopped in the village on the way up to this place and I went to this little stone house, and there was an old man there with dark weather-beaten skin, and we asked him if he had any water. He gave us some water which he said he'd got from the stream. We drank some and everything seemed to stop for me. Time stood still. For five minutes everything was really quiet and I was in this 'other dimension'. That's what the song is about.'" Also, yet another song from Moondance.
This. The reason this is one of my favorite songs ever, is this is like a slice of childhood, or just one of those days you can think of from the past, where it was just a perfect day. Being outside, in the water, getting out and letting the sun dry you, fishing, sitting by a campfire, being with friends/family, whatever.
Been listening to this for 30years for me Jelly roll Was always sex and jelly roll morton yeah high on life n nature gonna play the whole album again today😁
@@RandyforRoyals I get it yeah but when van mentions back street jelly roll years before we know what hes talking about ,hey we can all take what we want from vans songs beautiful soul
Can't listen to a song in 2020 without thinking it has drug/alcohol references. This song is about having a great day as a child and how refreshing is pure, clean water.
Morrison and his friends asked the man for water, and he gave them some he'd gotten from a nearby stream. As Morrison drank the stream water he slipped into mystical experience. Time stood still," he says in Too Late to Stop Now. "For five minutes everything was really quiet and I was in this other dimension. "That's what the song is about." Jelly Roll is probably the jazz great...he used to listen to him with his father growing up.
Jellyroll was turn of the previous century slang for a ladies' private parts. And that's what it refers to in the name Jellyroll Morton who cut his chops playing piano in NOLA brothels.
It's Too Late to Stop Now by Jon Landau (who later became Springsteen's manager) is one of my favorite books and one of the great influences of my younger life.
If you think about it, "Into The Mystic" is a double entendre - the boat entering the Mystic River in Ireland, Van entering a spiritual state. Van didn't need dope; his journeys went elsewhere.
Right, as if Van wasn't getting absolutely stoned on weed and acid back in them days and then cocaine later. Right. Let's pretend that was not part of his life. Ok. Whatever you say.
After he left Bang records, he was spotted on Bylston Street, Boston, near the Prudential Center, with his "Them" LPs under an arm and panhandling for booze. What pulled him out was Peter Wolf, who was a DJ on WBCN-FM nights, and he mostly played Atlantic Records and other R&B and blues. He lived with Wolf for a time on Green Street in Cambridge.
Van "The Man" is an Irish national treasure. His lyrics usually come from a mystical stream of consciousness. Every song is great & some greater than others.
Van is singing about a moment of enlightenment, a strong and visceral realization of his connectedness with all life, and with the formless and timeless consciousness that is the fountain from which life flows.
Van Morrison is an artist I try not to play too often. His songs are so good that If I played him all the time, it'd ruin me for everybody else. He was a big part of getting me really interested in music in my early teens. Special place in my heart for Van.
I love his mention of Jelly Roll - one of the all time greats. So nature - being in the water - leaves him feeling as "stoned" as listening to Jelly Roll. Wow - this man has such passion for his music!
From the very first time I heard this song, I gathered that he was 'stoned' or emotionally elevated just by the nature of his experiences that day: fishing, jumping in a pond, feeling the sun on his back, drinking water from a mountain stream.
He's talking about the awe and simple wonder at life we experience naturally, and as life goes on many of us lose that amazement. As to the water. I remember the first time in my youth I drank water fresh from a spring. It really was magical. Hot summer day, sticky with humidity, and crystal clear clean water that was so cold it made your soul sigh. I was maybe 10. Looked at in the right context it was like being stoned. Everything in my world shifted, and it took a little bit to adjust to this new information. Five to ten minutes just spent enjoying the bliss of that magical water. Didn't have the right words then. Still struggle to give it the right words now.
GrumpyDrunken1 Yes! Nature, wilderness , is my cure-all, my drug, my addiction. Has been ever since my first five day bushwalk at 13 years old. We were built to move through this world at walking pace, not driving pace. We were built to feel the sun and breeze and rain on our skin, not the air-con. We were built to squint into the midday glare; to smell a thousand different scents on the wind, to hear the insects, birds, reptiles rustling through the fallen leaves. We were not built to sit inside white boxes that smell of plastic and cleaning fluids. I reckon that ‘stoned’ bliss of your glass of water from a spring is our natural state. We need it more than we realise.
At my Grandma's house in SW VA. a steel dipper hung above the kitchen sink. With the dipper you drank cold, sweet water from the spring on top of the mountain. Grandpa ran the pipe down the mountain in the 1930s. The family shared the dipper and the water.
After running about 8 miles a sip of water will send you into a mystical state, no additive required. I think Van was referencing something along those lines rather than a a literal chemical substance.
The song is about how Van was young and he got stoned on nature. Nothing to do with drugs or alcohol. Just getting high on youth and the beauty of nature.
George Ivan Morrison grew up in Belfast where his father would bring him classic blues and Jazz records back home his trips out to sea...Jelly Roll Morton was a jazz pioneer and one of many who shaped young Van's musical landscape
There is something special in the Irish air to produce such literary talents such as Van The Man (among many others). He is up there with James Joyce as a giant and master of poetic imagery, able to conjure spiritual and visual images with words. Just let yourself go and feel it... "Cypress Avenue" or "Madam George" are two other masterworks worth experiencing.
As he described it himself: "I suppose I was about 12 years old. We used to go to a place called Ballystockart to fish. We stopped in the village on the way up to this place and I went to this little stone house, and there was an old man there with dark weather-beaten skin, and we asked him if he had any water. He gave us some water which he said he'd got from the stream. We drank some and everything seemed to stop for me. Time stood still. For five minutes everything was really quiet and I was in this 'other dimension'. That's what the song is about."
Absolutely. He is just singing about getting stoned by the simple things in life. Sure there are tons of songs about drugs and the rock lifestyle, but this ain't one of them.
Love the song. I grew up 1 mile away from Ballystockart and fished the same river. Swung on rope swings and swam there too. I now live far away across an ocean from that place but this song takes me home and back to those long summer days of my youth. Happy times.
Oh yes,I think I would say that any song Van Morrison sings is my favourite. But this one,this one sings to me every time. I was born to a small rural farm and the nature surrounding that farm raised me more than any human. I remember being by the river or in the woods surrounding our land and being too young to have the words to express what I was feeling. How to describe the overwhelming joy,joy to the point of it being almost difficult to breath,joy to the point of tears. That what this song is to me.
Anyone that likes Van is OK with me, a true Celtic poet. Btw, Jelly Roll is an old blues guy, Van is constantly referencing these old artists in his work. Glad you enjoyed it Jamel.
@Ted Freddy I would suggest I know a lot more about Van Morrison and his works than you sir. I'm from his home town where a lot of us are steeped in his music. My uncle played with him in his band before he became famous in the Sixties and has told us many stories over the years. Keep politics out of it and enjoy the music.Have a good day!
He was on a good one after listening to Jelly Roll Morton, after returning to the comfort of home, and just just experiencing the good things in life. This is great, cause I been listening to lots of Van Morrison this summer as I drive all over the California coast and canyons to escape all the crazy shit that's happening. He's got some gorgeous music, that's for sure!
In my 60+ years I've gone through this album 5 times. 3 were just worn out from playing. When hubby passed I cranked this song, sang to him. He smiled through it, then went on home. It's pretty special.
Thanks again for sharing and experiencing my favorite artist. Saint Dominic’s Preview; Jackie Wilson Said; Talk Is Cheap; Almost Independence Day, Caravan (from The Last Waltz concert film). Van also plays sax on some of his songs.
" Oh The Water" ; IT IS THE WATER MAKING HIM HIGH ON LIFE ! ! ! ~ Jamel , Great series of Van the Man classics ! But the pure gold waiting for you to discover are these 4 songs; "Wild Nights", "Domino", 'Wavelength" and my personal fave; "Jackie Wilson Said " ! ! ! Thanks, stay safe and as always spread PEACE AND JUSTICE ! ! ! ! !
Every time I hear this song two things : makes me feel stoned, the happy vibe. And I think of MY favorite food, that always make me happy! Hes got such a great vibe!
On Hyndford St..will make you think of your younger days! One of my very favorite songs by Van. In this song he doesn't sing but tells a story of his youth ..with beautiful music..An absolute must!!!
He really has a nice arrangement, I feel that his voice is a nice contrast, I also feel that back then certain singers used thier voice as an instrument around the music if that make sense.
"Jelly Roll" is a reference to Jelly Roll Morton, an early ragtime pianist/composer-- considered one of the fathers of jazz music. I really think you'd like a few other Van songs-- "Wavelength" (upbeat with real "stank" on the guitar break), "Wild Night" and "She Gives Me Religion"
He's loving the water that's making him feel high. No moonshine. Just pure water for his dry throat. Van is a genious and l love the story telling song.
Not so very strange when you think about American bluegrass music and who the people were singing and playing. Mostly Irish and English immigrants and their descendants, so naturally the "twang" is there!
Jelly Roll refers to American jazz blues pianist Jelly Roll Morton. He's a big influence on Van Morrison. Van references him in a number of his songs and performances.
Jelly Roll Morton (not the rapper) was a jazz/Ragtime pianist that he references in the song. While he might have partook of something at some time this song is about the joy of water "stoned" meaning it made him high on the beauty of the water in its different environments.
I first heard this song some years after my family had moved to the West coast. The images of fishing and drinking water on a hot summer day made me feel an intense nostalgia about growing up in my old hometown, places I had not thought about in years. It amazed me that this Irishman's poetic reveries of the joys of childhood were so like my own. I was also getting into jazz and early R and B, and also got a kick out of the puckish reference to Jelly Roll Morton, which prevents the song from feeling too earnest or corny. Later digging into his music, I still marvel at all of the ways he plays with poetic images, especially water. Like walking and talking in gardens misty wet with rain. I think about this during the pandemic and think that I shall never grow so old again.
Ban Morrison started when he was 17. He was in band THEM in 65 he wrote Gloria, mystic eyes. He’s one of the greatest songwriters ever. Still releasing albums and turned 75 on Aug 31
On Mad dogs and Englishmen with Joe Cocker, Leon was the musical director - absolutely brilliant. "The Letter", "Cry me a river" . Also Leon's solo stuff including his version of Dylan's "A hard rains gonna fall". Then there's "This Masquerade", "Tightrope" and "A song for you" beautiful songs in a much underplayed catalogue. Leon was inducted into the r'n'r hall of fame by Elton John after the completed a successful album collaboration "The union"
NOBODY is on the Leon trail or JJ Cale either! No love for the Okies! :) So much great material from both artists, both gone far too soon! RIP brothers Leon and JJ!
Tom Mathews I can’t understand it! I love them both, and despite the fact that Leon was FINALLY inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they both are so criminally underrated, in my opinion. JJ should get a posthumous induction. He deserves it!
It's not about getting stoned on drugs as much it is being knocked out by those wonderful things in life. Fishing with a friend, being in the world and drinking it all in. Being stoned by the love of God and life and love itself.
(Saint?) Stephen Gaskin used to use the word 'stoned' all the time ay San Francisco State University during his '67 "Monday Night Classes" (stated in a classroom, ended up being over 2,000 attendees every week). He said it was from astonishment.
Jamal-listening to you, watching how much you enjoy music I’d always a thrill for me. You experience music the same way I did as a young man. It absorbed my generation and to see it can still “Stone” someone tells me we were right a long, long, time ago….our music did matter.
"Stoned" in the sense of feeling high from an experience. It could be a pot reference at some point, but I think it's more of an overall good feeling that he's singing about.
Ahhhh, Van. Some of the best blue eyed soul on the planet. My kids grew up having to hear "our daily Van" They still love him decades later. He gets right into your soul doesn't he.
You should check out Van's song "T.B. Sheets." It sounds like he's having an emotion breakdown as he's singing it but he just keeps going. It's a hell of an experience.
In the chorus of And It Stoned Me, the opening track of his seminal 1970 album Moondance, Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison sings "And it stoned me to my soul, stoned me just like Jelly Roll, and it stoned me." The reference is thought to be to the childhood memory of listening to his father's Morton recordings.
I have a pin BB threw to me at a concert 20 something years age. He made eye contact and tossed it right to me!! It has BB King in the shape of Lucille. Lucille is the neck and BB King is the body. One my most prized possessions. My buddy touched his hand and said it felt like blocks of sandpaper.
getting high naturally. "just like jelly roll" is a reference to the music of Jelly Roll Martin, a massive underground influence for musicians in the 70s. He was black, so kind of forbidden fruit, and so good. Jelly Roll Martin, old blues man.
@@richg0404 No I didn't, not only did I spell him wrong, he's jazz, not blues! oops, but the name rings down through history and should not be forgotten!
Just like jellyroll! Probably a reference to Jelly Roll Morton, jazz piano player. Out fishin', it starts to rain. He and his buddy get a ride to another spot, go skinny-dipping, poles and all. And the joy of nature, the joy of living, it stoned me to my soul. Just like goin' home! And it stoned me!
Thanks for listening to the peeps who love your channel. I am and forever will be a lover all good musif. Van Morrison however... Not just a fan, I love immersing myself in his world. Same as Donovan. These story tellers weave such magic and there is always a song that describes a feeling or or state of mind. It Stoned me always makes me think of the day I had my daughter. I looked down at her tiny face and it stoned me.
BLUE MAN GROUP - I FEEL LOVE Jamel, here's one that checks every box - 1) Live, Large & Engauged Audiance 2) Electrified, High Energy Performance 3) Funk, Stank, Rock, Disco and Loud! 4) Stage Prescence, Entertaining, Eye Catching. 5) Like a 3-Ring circus, there's something going on throughout the number that your. unable to take your eyes away. From the "Blue Man Groups Complex Rock Tour."
J, The purer the mountain stream waters, the smoother the moonshine turns out! That mountain water being crystal clear is just like the ‘shine it produces... crystal clear...thus “And It Stoned Me”!!
My friend was sick and she knew she was dying she told me when i hear into the mystic it's her touching me from beyond. When i see a butterfly it's her coming to say hi! She died a few months later. 37 years later i still think of her i tell my daughter that's Heather in a butterfly coming to say hi;-)
And it stoned me......he really is just referencing how incredible it all is...this moment, this world. Jellyroll referencing Jellyroll Morton.....jazz pianist. That's how I remember him talking about it....
It's the WATER that stones him - first the rainwater, then the swimming hole, then the old man's spring water..... water is LIFE!
Yep that’s what it is.
Yeah, sometimes it is easy to overthink the meaning of a song. Jamel, sometimes the words of the song are just there because they sound good together.
P.S. While we are on the subject of water, I REALLY think U should react to the Billy Joel song: River of Dreams... it's insanely great (to borrow a phrase)... not to be missed!!
The old mans jars are filled with shine boys..
Nailed it.
This is Van the poet talking about being high on nature and life itself .
Yeah, it's about ejoying the moment, enjoying life. "High on life" as they say. That's what "just like Jelly Roll" means, how he ejoyed his misic. You could say all this great music is stoning Jamel :)
Van the Man. Irishman. His talented self has been making incredible music for decades. Unique versatile voice.
@@redarmysoja it means pussy. then it's like goin' home. what more do you want?
@@redarmysoja jelly roll is an old blues term for sex
I was really wondering and hoping you were going to go there and understand the song but you didn't. It's not about drugs or alcohol. It's about being high on life, he says stoned me to my Soul. Stoned is just a metaphor for how he was feeling and it hit his soul so deep, like Jellyroll the blues singer made him feel.The first time I heard this on headphones it stoned me too it blew me away because I knew what his singing about and it wasn't drugs. If you listen to him and feel his music it's so spiritual it's really like a transcendental experience. He's singing about nature and his boyhood experiences, there's a theme of water, fishing in the stream and jumping in, then getting the gift of water from the stream, it's all outdoors. I still love watching you react to my favorite songs but you misinterpreted this one my brother.
He's describing how wonderful it is to be a kid and live in the moment. It's better than any 'high'. He's overwhelmed to his very soul of the beauty of the moment.
No, not moonshine, just water. Brother Van is talking about getting high on life. Getting high on the simple things.
Everyone takes their own meaning from this song. I agree with you. Water is magic, healing, life-giving, be it rain, a mountain stream, the ocean, or a bath. We are made of water, born from water in the womb.
NOT drugs.
"As Morrison biographer Ritchie Yorke described it, the song remembered "how it was when you were a kid and just got stoned from nature and you didn't need anything else".[3] Morrison, in 1985, related the song to a quasi-mystical experience he had as a child:
I suppose I was about 12 years old. We used to go to a place called Ballystockart to fish. We stopped in the village on the way up to this place and I went to this little stone house, and there was an old man there with dark weather-beaten skin, and we asked him if he had any water. He gave us some water which he said he'd got from the stream. We drank some and everything seemed to stop for me. Time stood still. For five minutes everything was really quiet and I was in this 'other dimension'. That's what the song is about.'"
Also, yet another song from Moondance.
I’ve always loved this song because it speaks to the unusual, maybe mystical, experiences many people have had as children.
Thank you for this comment. A natural pure elevated soulful and free high from life. Means so much more than any drug ever could.
Similar to a "Rocky Mountain High", a natural high.....
This. The reason this is one of my favorite songs ever, is this is like a slice of childhood, or just one of those days you can think of from the past, where it was just a perfect day. Being outside, in the water, getting out and letting the sun dry you, fishing, sitting by a campfire, being with friends/family, whatever.
I would like some of that water
He references Jelly Roll Morton and the uplifting spirit of his music just like his experience out in nature fishing.
He references him quite a bit in his music, among others. Just like Jelly Roll. :)
Been listening to this for 30years for me Jelly roll Was always sex and jelly roll morton yeah high on life n nature gonna play the whole album again today😁
@@covidmyarse847 Van would often reference soul and blues artists as well as literary figures.
@@RandyforRoyals I get it yeah but when van mentions back street jelly roll years before we know what hes talking about ,hey we can all take what we want from vans songs beautiful soul
Jelly Roll is def that puss
Van Morrison - One of the most wonderful, soulful singers of all time ... Amen.
"What are you supposed to be? An Irish R&B singer?"
Can't listen to a song in 2020 without thinking it has drug/alcohol references. This song is about having a great day as a child and how refreshing is pure, clean water.
Morrison and his friends asked the man for water, and he gave them some he'd gotten from a nearby stream. As Morrison drank the stream water he slipped into mystical experience. Time stood still," he says in Too Late to Stop Now. "For five minutes everything was really quiet and I was in this other dimension. "That's what the song is about." Jelly Roll is probably the jazz great...he used to listen to him with his father growing up.
Jellyroll was turn of the previous century slang for a ladies' private parts. And that's what it refers to in the name Jellyroll Morton who cut his chops playing piano in NOLA brothels.
True brother haha
It's Too Late to Stop Now by Jon Landau (who later became Springsteen's manager) is one of my favorite books and one of the great influences of my younger life.
If you think about it, "Into The Mystic" is a double entendre - the boat entering the Mystic River in Ireland, Van entering a spiritual state. Van didn't need dope; his journeys went elsewhere.
Right, as if Van wasn't getting absolutely stoned on weed and acid back in them days and then cocaine later. Right. Let's pretend that was not part of his life. Ok. Whatever you say.
Thomas Richard Absolutely And probably why he had so many great songs and live so much longer than his contemporaries!
Yeah, the dope needs Van Morrison!
The Mystic River is in Massachusetts.
After he left Bang records, he was spotted on Bylston Street, Boston, near the Prudential Center, with his "Them" LPs under an arm and panhandling for booze.
What pulled him out was Peter Wolf, who was a DJ on WBCN-FM nights, and he mostly played Atlantic Records and other R&B and blues. He lived with Wolf for a time on Green Street in Cambridge.
Jelly Roll Morton, jazz pianist. Stoned me just like Jelly Roll: moved my soul like Jelly Roll.
Translated from Irish for ya.
SLAINTE
We are a people separated by common language
One of the greatest albums ever start to finish
Not sure why, But I've never cared for "Moondance". Love the rest of it though.
Andy Fletcher this song is from Astral Weeks isn’t it?
@@joebauers8031 No, it's from the album "Moondance". I love the album, just not the song "Moondance".
@@joebauers8031 it’s from uhhhh the album “Moondance”
@@andyfletcher3561 I'm the same. Love this album start to finish but not as fussed with 'Moondance' but I still know all the words.
He's saying he got high--to his very soul--on nature...such a great song!
One of those singularity talents in rock and roll. Supreme gift.
This is one of my favorite Van Morrison songs. My favorite is Crazy Love.
Van "The Man" is an Irish national treasure. His lyrics usually come from a mystical stream of consciousness. Every song is great & some greater than others.
I adore that song, it's Van's best and the whole album is a masterpiece. One of my all time favourites.
Van is singing about a moment of enlightenment, a strong and visceral realization of his connectedness with all life, and with the formless and timeless consciousness that is the fountain from which life flows.
Very well expressed.
Van Morrison is an artist I try not to play too often. His songs are so good that If I played him all the time, it'd ruin me for everybody else. He was a big part of getting me really interested in music in my early teens. Special place in my heart for Van.
I love his mention of Jelly Roll - one of the all time greats. So nature - being in the water - leaves him feeling as "stoned" as listening to Jelly Roll. Wow - this man has such passion for his music!
From the very first time I heard this song, I gathered that he was 'stoned' or emotionally elevated just by the nature of his experiences that day: fishing, jumping in a pond, feeling the sun on his back, drinking water from a mountain stream.
He's talking about being a boy out in nature with his friend and how overwhelming nature was.
Yesssss❤️
He's talking about the awe and simple wonder at life we experience naturally, and as life goes on many of us lose that amazement. As to the water. I remember the first time in my youth I drank water fresh from a spring. It really was magical. Hot summer day, sticky with humidity, and crystal clear clean water that was so cold it made your soul sigh. I was maybe 10. Looked at in the right context it was like being stoned. Everything in my world shifted, and it took a little bit to adjust to this new information. Five to ten minutes just spent enjoying the bliss of that magical water. Didn't have the right words then. Still struggle to give it the right words now.
GrumpyDrunken1 Yes! Nature, wilderness , is my cure-all, my drug, my addiction. Has been ever since my first five day bushwalk at 13 years old. We were built to move through this world at walking pace, not driving pace. We were built to feel the sun and breeze and rain on our skin, not the air-con. We were built to squint into the midday glare; to smell a thousand different scents on the wind, to hear the insects, birds, reptiles rustling through the fallen leaves. We were not built to sit inside white boxes that smell of plastic and cleaning fluids. I reckon that ‘stoned’ bliss of your glass of water from a spring is our natural state. We need it more than we realise.
At my Grandma's house in SW VA. a steel dipper hung above the kitchen sink. With the dipper you drank cold, sweet water from the spring on top of the mountain. Grandpa ran the pipe down the mountain in the 1930s. The family shared the dipper and the water.
Mike Fannon Beautiful!
Van has given us the words to so many mystical and magical experiences!
After running about 8 miles a sip of water will send you into a mystical state, no additive required. I think Van was referencing something along those lines rather than a a literal chemical substance.
He slipped Into The Mystic on a natural high 😉
This is my favorite Van Morrison song, thanks for reacting to it!
The song is about how Van was young and he got stoned on nature. Nothing to do with drugs or alcohol. Just getting high on youth and the beauty of nature.
Man you can DEEP DEEP dive into Van the Man. I will enjoy every second you watching you discover him
Wonder what "Astral Weeks" will do to him?! :)
George Ivan Morrison grew up in Belfast where his father would bring him classic blues and Jazz records back home his trips out to sea...Jelly Roll Morton was a jazz pioneer and one of many who shaped young Van's musical landscape
There is something special in the Irish air to produce such literary talents such as Van The Man (among many others). He is up there with James Joyce as a giant and master of poetic imagery, able to conjure spiritual and visual images with words.
Just let yourself go and feel it...
"Cypress Avenue" or "Madam George" are two other masterworks worth experiencing.
As he described it himself: "I suppose I was about 12 years old. We used to go to a place called Ballystockart to fish. We stopped in the village on the way up to this place and I went to this little stone house, and there was an old man there with dark weather-beaten skin, and we asked him if he had any water. He gave us some water which he said he'd got from the stream. We drank some and everything seemed to stop for me. Time stood still. For five minutes everything was really quiet and I was in this 'other dimension'. That's what the song is about."
Absolutely. He is just singing about getting stoned by the simple things in life. Sure there are tons of songs about drugs and the rock lifestyle, but this ain't one of them.
Love the song. I grew up 1 mile away from Ballystockart and fished the same river. Swung on rope swings and swam there too. I now live far away across an ocean from that place but this song takes me home and back to those long summer days of my youth. Happy times.
Oh yes,I think I would say that any song Van Morrison sings is my favourite. But this one,this one sings to me every time. I was born to a small rural farm and the nature surrounding that farm raised me more than any human. I remember being by the river or in the woods surrounding our land and being too young to have the words to express what I was feeling. How to describe the overwhelming joy,joy to the point of it being almost difficult to breath,joy to the point of tears. That what this song is to me.
More Van!!! More Van!!! Yesterday was his 75th Birthday.
Anyone that likes Van is OK with me, a true Celtic poet. Btw, Jelly Roll is an old blues guy, Van is constantly referencing these old artists in his work. Glad you enjoyed it Jamel.
Jelly roll is also jazz slang for a woman’s genitals. True.
Jelly Roll Morton was a jazz pioneer. Not strictly blues.
Ted Freddy Dickweed.
@Ted Freddy I would suggest I know a lot more about Van Morrison and his works than you sir. I'm from his home town where a lot of us are steeped in his music. My uncle played with him in his band before he became famous in the Sixties and has told us many stories over the years. Keep politics out of it and enjoy the music.Have a good day!
@Ted Freddy Take it however you want, it won't interfere with your being exceptionally wrong...
He was on a good one after listening to Jelly Roll Morton, after returning to the comfort of home, and just just experiencing the good things in life.
This is great, cause I been listening to lots of Van Morrison this summer as I drive all over the California coast and canyons to escape all the crazy shit that's happening. He's got some gorgeous music, that's for sure!
In my 60+ years I've gone through this album 5 times. 3 were just worn out from playing. When hubby passed I cranked this song, sang to him. He smiled through it, then went on home. It's pretty special.
Nature can sure do this!!!! Right to the core of your soul
Jamal you have that same look oh wow that I had over 30 years ago when I first heard Van Morrison for the first time. Guess what, it stoned me.
Thanks again for sharing and experiencing my favorite artist. Saint Dominic’s Preview; Jackie Wilson Said; Talk Is Cheap; Almost Independence Day, Caravan (from The Last Waltz concert film). Van also plays sax on some of his songs.
@@vincentfadale3140 I think Saint Dominic's Preview was my first as well. Either that, or TB Sheets...
There are many ways to get high that don't involve drugs my brother.
No one makes me feel the words and music more than Van Morrison. Easily one of the greatest to bless us with his talent.
Possibly greatest singer ever, and his greatest album!! Simple but beautiful!!
“Caravan” w/The Band @ The Last Waltz.
YES
Hope he reacts to this
Still my favourite. It's all about the gypsies for Van.
OMG...it is the greatest live performance ever!
Im with ya on that one
" Oh The Water" ; IT IS THE WATER MAKING HIM HIGH ON LIFE ! ! ! ~ Jamel , Great series of Van the Man classics ! But the pure gold waiting for you to discover are these 4 songs; "Wild Nights", "Domino", 'Wavelength" and my personal fave; "Jackie Wilson Said " ! ! ! Thanks, stay safe and as always spread PEACE AND JUSTICE ! ! ! ! !
Van Morrison and the band, caravan, you will not be disappointed!
I would highly recommend “Astral Weeks” if you want to continue exploring the genius of Van Morrison.
With this and the rest of your Van Morrison set you covered some of his finest. I think you appreciate the kind of artist he is. Well done.
Every time I hear this song two things : makes me feel stoned, the happy vibe.
And I think of MY favorite food, that always make me happy! Hes got such a great vibe!
On Hyndford St..will make you think of your younger days! One of my very favorite songs by Van. In this song he doesn't sing but tells a story of his youth ..with beautiful music..An absolute must!!!
He really has a nice arrangement, I feel that his voice is a nice contrast, I also feel that back then certain singers used thier voice as an instrument around the music if that make sense.
"Jelly Roll" is a reference to Jelly Roll Morton, an early ragtime pianist/composer-- considered one of the fathers of jazz music.
I really think you'd like a few other Van songs-- "Wavelength" (upbeat with real "stank" on the guitar break), "Wild Night" and "She Gives Me Religion"
You are correct, sir.
I'd like him to do Kingdom Hall
@@neonpark1874 another good one!
YES! "Wavelength" -- and pretty much every song on that album -- is among his most underrated work.
I love the whole Wavelength album! It was usually my go to when I wanted to listen to some Van Morrison.
He finds a high in what is around him! I enjoy his talent! Gifted!!!
Oh the water! The natural quenching of water, so simple, so pleasurable, Like a Van Morrison song.
He's loving the water that's making him feel high. No moonshine. Just pure water for his dry throat. Van is a genious and l love the story telling song.
Amazing how someone from Northern Ireland can sound so Southern American
Maybe in the style of music but his voice is still distinctly Northern Irish. He never got rid of his Belfast twang.x
Not so very strange when you think about American bluegrass music and who the people were singing and playing. Mostly Irish and English immigrants and their descendants, so naturally the "twang" is there!
@@suzannelemieux3357 Yes this is true, the influence of the Ulster Scots in particular is clear. Especially in bluegrass.
Jelly Roll refers to American jazz blues pianist Jelly Roll Morton. He's a big influence on Van Morrison. Van references him in a number of his songs and performances.
No, I don’t think so
Jelly Roll Morton (not the rapper) was a jazz/Ragtime pianist that he references in the song. While he might have partook of something at some time this song is about the joy of water "stoned" meaning it made him high on the beauty of the water in its different environments.
Despite the name of the song, this is about the PUREST song you could ever hear. It is all about WATER in different ways, rain, swimming and thirst!
" *Wild Night* " and " *Caravan* " are 2 other GREATS! Keep up the amazing content bro!
Caravan from The Last Waltz.
Wild Night is my fave Van Morrison song.
Jamel this is my all time favorite Van Morrison song....so sublime! thanks for the upload! Its all about living life free...
I first heard this song some years after my family had moved to the West coast. The images of fishing and drinking water on a hot summer day made me feel an intense nostalgia about growing up in my old hometown, places I had not thought about in years. It amazed me that this Irishman's poetic reveries of the joys of childhood were so like my own. I was also getting into jazz and early R and B, and also got a kick out of the puckish reference to Jelly Roll Morton, which prevents the song from feeling too earnest or corny.
Later digging into his music, I still marvel at all of the ways he plays with poetic images, especially water. Like walking and talking in gardens misty wet with rain. I think about this during the pandemic and think that I shall never grow so old again.
Ban Morrison started when he was 17. He was in band THEM in 65 he wrote Gloria, mystic eyes. He’s one of the greatest songwriters ever. Still releasing albums and turned 75 on Aug 31
Keep indulging in Van, and please check out Leon Russell AND JJ Cale!!!
On Mad dogs and Englishmen with Joe Cocker, Leon was the musical director - absolutely brilliant. "The Letter", "Cry me a river" . Also Leon's solo stuff including his version of Dylan's "A hard rains gonna fall". Then there's "This Masquerade", "Tightrope" and "A song for you" beautiful songs in a much underplayed catalogue.
Leon was inducted into the r'n'r hall of fame by Elton John after the completed a successful album collaboration "The union"
Leon was my first concert experience with parents 1973 at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Ontario. I second your request!
Leon Russell and JJ Cale
NOBODY is on the Leon trail or JJ Cale either! No love for the Okies! :)
So much great material from both artists, both gone far too soon! RIP brothers Leon and JJ!
Tom Mathews I can’t understand it! I love them both, and despite the fact that Leon was FINALLY inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they both are so criminally underrated, in my opinion. JJ should get a posthumous induction. He deserves it!
It's not about getting stoned on drugs as much it is being knocked out by those wonderful things in life. Fishing with a friend, being in the world and drinking it all in. Being stoned by the love of God and life and love itself.
(Saint?) Stephen Gaskin used to use the word 'stoned' all the time ay San Francisco State University during his '67 "Monday Night Classes" (stated in a classroom, ended up being over 2,000 attendees every week). He said it was from astonishment.
Jamal-listening to you, watching how much you enjoy music I’d always a thrill for me. You experience music the same way I did as a young man. It absorbed my generation and to see it can still “Stone” someone tells me we were right a long, long, time ago….our music did matter.
Magic, pure gold, goes straight to the soul...
"Stoned" in the sense of feeling high from an experience. It could be a pot reference at some point, but I think it's more of an overall good feeling that he's singing about.
Getting stoned from cool clean water
Ahhhh, Van. Some of the best blue eyed soul on the planet. My kids grew up having to hear "our daily Van" They still love him decades later. He gets right into your soul doesn't he.
This song can foster memories of people and landscapes and smells from the '70s. True Nostalgia. (Stoned like the Lord takes you Over! Stoned Love!)
You should check out Van's song "T.B. Sheets." It sounds like he's having an emotion breakdown as he's singing it but he just keeps going. It's a hell of an experience.
I heard that he walked out of the studio after finishing this recording, he was so broken..
"Jelly Roll" is Jelly Roll Morton, the early jazz great. Not a jelly doughnut. ;)
I’m corrected, I said Jelly Roll Johnson above...
In the chorus of And It Stoned Me, the opening track of his seminal 1970 album Moondance, Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison sings "And it stoned me to my soul, stoned me just like Jelly Roll, and it stoned me." The reference is thought to be to the childhood memory of listening to his father's Morton recordings.
Jelly Roll is an old Jugband/blues reference to a woman's sex. Jugband music was some of the first blues.
@@richardhadfield8702 While that's true in this song the context is Jelly Roll Morton. It has several meanings.
yes yes yes my favorite from him had the pleasure of seeing him twice live
Some of y'all need to look up this song, and research Van! He explains exactly what he meant. He said the guy gave them water, this was a real story!
I can't tell you how it warms my heart seeing you getting into Van. This album especially - a true "Desert Island" album.
Love your channel. How about a BB King song-The Thrill Is Gone.
I have a pin BB threw to me at a concert 20 something years age. He made eye contact and tossed it right to me!! It has BB King in the shape of Lucille. Lucille is the neck and BB King is the body. One my most prized possessions. My buddy touched his hand and said it felt like blocks of sandpaper.
...with Eric Clapton. Riding with the king.
BB king did a duet with Tracy Chapman once singing The thrill as gone.
@@Myfairmaiden Tracy Chapman is freakin awesome
This song always reminds of my brother and I when we were growing up, swimming, fishing, and hitchhiking to get there.
Oh! To be a child again exploring the outdoors and its mysteries. ❤️
Enjoying all the “Van” love on this channel, even if it isn’t for me!! LOL 😍
Van 😂😂😂
getting high naturally. "just like jelly roll" is a reference to the music of Jelly Roll Martin, a massive underground influence for musicians in the 70s. He was black, so kind of forbidden fruit, and so good. Jelly Roll Martin, old blues man.
Jelly Roll Morton. But you got the reference correct. Great stuff.
@@richg0404 No I didn't, not only did I spell him wrong, he's jazz, not blues!
oops, but the name rings down through history and should not be forgotten!
Just like jellyroll! Probably a reference to Jelly Roll Morton, jazz piano player.
Out fishin', it starts to rain. He and his buddy get a ride to another spot, go skinny-dipping, poles and all. And the joy of nature, the joy of living, it stoned me to my soul. Just like goin' home! And it stoned me!
Van Morrison - Caravan (live from the Last Waltz). One of the all time great live performances.
This my favorite Van Morrison song.
Jamel keeping great music alive all over the map!!! 👊😂🙌💪
One of the best albums ever, Van The Man
Thanks for listening to the peeps who love your channel. I am and forever will be a lover all good musif. Van Morrison however... Not just a fan, I love immersing myself in his world. Same as Donovan. These story tellers weave such magic and there is always a song that describes a feeling or or state of mind.
It Stoned me always makes me think of the day I had my daughter. I looked down at her tiny face and it stoned me.
Oooooo waiting on Wild Night. It was one of my getting ready to go out songs. So exciting, get on it if ya haven't already.
Yes! Great song for gearing up to enjoy a night out!
I think you need some Jackson Browne and John Prine.
Vann the Man , high on life , nature and the joy of being alive . Love it !
BLUE MAN GROUP - I FEEL LOVE
Jamel, here's one that checks every box - 1) Live, Large & Engauged Audiance 2) Electrified, High Energy Performance 3) Funk, Stank, Rock, Disco and Loud! 4) Stage Prescence, Entertaining, Eye Catching. 5) Like a 3-Ring circus, there's something going on throughout the number that your. unable to take your eyes away. From the "Blue Man Groups Complex Rock Tour."
The experience of nature and being with his friend “stoned” him, not a drug reference.
Nature and wildlife have a way of making time stand still to me.
Van morrison- jackie wilson said ( I'm in heaven when you smile). Check that out.
Watch this-- ding a ling a ling, ding a ling a ling ding.
this is the innocence of youth remembered
J,
The purer the mountain stream waters, the smoother the moonshine turns out! That mountain water being crystal clear is just like the ‘shine it produces...
crystal clear...thus “And It Stoned Me”!!
Yo, it’s not reefer...“It stoned me “ Is an old saying
Caravan live from the Last Waltz would be a great one!
My friend was sick and she knew she was dying she told me when i hear into the mystic it's her touching me from beyond. When i see a butterfly it's her coming to say hi! She died a few months later. 37 years later i still think of her i tell my daughter that's Heather in a butterfly coming to say hi;-)
Every time I hear this song it's like I'm hearing it for the first time.
And it stoned me......he really is just referencing how incredible it all is...this moment, this world. Jellyroll referencing Jellyroll Morton.....jazz pianist. That's how I remember him talking about it....
I suggest you listen to...what I feel is he best song ever HYMNS TO THE SILENCE
This song reminds me how i felt when my son died.it stond me to my soul. He andy his friend billy loved fishing
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You. Van Morrison song is my favorite from him. That would be great song to play J. Thank u!