Slim Slow Slider

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Name = Slim Slow Slider


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Artist = Van Morrison
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Album = Astral Weeks
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Released = November 1968
track_no = 8
Recorded = October 15, 1968
Genre = Folk rock
Length = 3:20
Writer = Van Morrison
Composer = Van Morrison
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Lewis Merenstein
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Tracks =
#"Astral Weeks"
#"Beside You"
#"Sweet Thing"
#"Cyprus Avenue"
#"The Way Young Lovers Do"
#"Madame George"
#"Ballerina"
#"Slim Slow Slider"
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Misc = "Slim Slow Slider" is the closing track on the 1968 album "Astral Weeks" by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. In Morrison's words the subject of this song is "a person who is caught up in a big city like London or maybe is on dope." Brian Hinton describes it as being an intrusion between the two poles of Belfast and America in the other songs. "The craziness of "Cyprus Avenue" has come home, so that the streets of Notting Hill become 'some sandy beach', in the junkies eyes....We are back in the world of "T.B. Sheets", and a twelve bar blues, and Van's chuckle is truly nasty. After all those rebirths, here is a song about winter, "white as snow", and death..." [Hinton, Celtic Crossroads, p. 98] The song ends abruptly with Van slapping on the side of his guitar.

Recording

As the final song on the album, "Slim Slow Slider" was also the last song recorded on the final session on October 15, 1968. John Payne who played soprano saxophone on this song says there was a long section at the end of this song that was cut off. "It was five to ten minutes of instrumental jamming, semi-baroque and jazz stuff." [Rogan, No Surrender, p. 227]

Personnel

*Van Morrison - rhythm guitar, vocals
*Richard Davis - double bass
*John Payne - soprano saxophone
*Warren Smith, Jr. - percussion

Covers

Johnny Rivers (1970)

Notes

References

*Hinton, Brian (1997). Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison, Sanctuary, ISBN 1-86074169X
*Rogan, Johnny (2006). Van Morrison:No Surrender, London:Vintage Books ISBN 9780099431831

External links

* [http://www.vanmorrison.co.uk/?m=Content&Content(record_id)=b2950180e54389f3cf9d93ad908ac00e# Lyrics and audio sample] 1960s Astral Weeks