The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3


The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3 is a compilation album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, that was released on 11 June 2007 in the UK with a digital version released in the U.S. on iTunes Store, on 12 June 2007. Manhattan/EMI Music Catalog Marketing released the CD version of the album on 19 June 2007 in the United States. This new two-disc collection of 31 tracks has been compiled by Morrison himself. It offers an overview of his large volume of material since the release of The Best of Van Morrison Volume Two in 1993. The album's thirty-one tracks include previously unreleased collaborations with Tom Jones and Bobby Bland as well as duets with John Lee Hooker, B.B. King and Ray Charles. The 2003 duet with Ray Charles is "Crazy Love" a song originally recorded on Morrison's 1970 album Moondance. "Blue and Green" was previously donated to be used on the charity album , which raised money for relief efforts intended for Gulf Coast victims devastated by hurricane Katrina. The duet with Tom Jones, "Cry For Home" was taken from the same recording sessions that produced the "Sometimes We Cry" duet between the two artists, which featured on Jones' successful album Reload. "Cry for Home" was released as a single on 4 June 2007 in the UK, and was followed by "Blue and Green" on 27 August.
On 18 June 2007 it was listed as No. 23 on the UK Music Charts on the Official UK Top 75 Albums.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Cry for Home" - 4:10
  2. "Too Long In Exile" - 5:08
  3. "Gloria" - 5:19
  4. "Help Me" - 6:25
  5. "Lonely Avenue/4 O'Clock in the Morning /Sooner or Later/When Will I Become a Man?/You Give Me Nothing but the Blues/Lonely Avenue" - 7:54
  6. "Days Like This - 3:14
  7. "Ancient Highway" - 8:52
  8. "Raincheck" - 5:53
  9. "Moondance" - 4:56
  10. "Centerpiece" - 3:16
  11. "That's Life" - 4:30
  12. "Benediction" - 3:01
  13. "The Healing Game" - 5:17
  14. "I Don't Want to Go On Without You" - 3:27

    Disc two

  15. "Shenandoah" - 3:53
  16. "Precious Time" - 3:08
  17. "Back on Top" - 4:20
  18. "When the Leaves Come Falling Down" - 5:38
  19. "Lost John" - 2:57
  20. "Tupelo Honey" - 3:37
  21. "Meet Me in the Indian Summer" - 3:31
  22. "Georgia on My Mind" - 5:37
  23. "Hey Mr. DJ" - 3:49
  24. "Steal My Heart Away" - 4:11
  25. "Crazy Love" - 3:43
  26. "Once in a Blue Moon" - 3:30
  27. "Little Village" - 4:30
  28. "Blue and Green" - 5:41
  29. "Sittin' on Top of the World" - 3:20
  30. "Early in the Morning" - 4:50
  31. "Stranded" - 5:37