“Sweet Thing” by Van Morrison

"Sweet Thing" comes from Astral Weeks, Van Morrison's second studio album, released in 1968, and it was cut on 15 October 1968 at Century Sound Studios in New York, at the album's final session, with Lewis Merenstein producing. Morrison called it a romantic song about a feeling rather than a person, full of gardens and rain, and it's the one song on the album that looks ahead instead of back.

The players float rather than drive: Richard Davis's double bass hums underneath like a current, Connie Kay keeps time with a feather touch, Jay Berliner's classical guitar and John Payne's flute drift through, and Warren Smith taps a triangle, while Morrison strums and sings like a man lit up from inside. Author Erik Hage counted it among the most beautiful and euphoric songs Morrison ever made, and heard kinship with the English romantic poets in its landscapes.

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