Mister Morrison – Emission no18 (Mister Morrison et la baie de San Francisco)

01. Redwood tree (Saint Dominic’s Preview, 1972)
02. Saint Dominic’s preview (Saint Dominic’s Preview, 1972)
03. Saint Dominic’s preview (Live In Ireland, 1979)
04. Snow in San Anselmo (Hard Nose the Highway, 1973)
A Night In San Francisco (1994)
05. Did ye geat healed
06. It’s all in the game
07. John Lee Hooker & Van Morrison, Travellin’ blues (Don’t Look Back), 1997)
08. Keep Mediocrity At Bay (Magic Time, 2005)
09. Tony Bennett, I Left My Heart In San Francisco (1962)
10. I Left My Heart In San Francisco (Versatile, 2017)
11. Fame Will Eat The Soul, duet with Bill Medley (Righteous Brothers) (Three Chords & The Truth, 2019)

In April 1971 Morrison and his family moved to Marin County, California, before he recorded his previous album, Tupelo Honey.[6] Their new home was on the side of a hill in rural countryside close to San Francisco, with redwood trees nearby.[7] Biographer Johnny Rogan believes the song “Redwood Tree” “enshrined the beauty of Marin county”.[8]

The song evokes nostalgia and memories of growing up, in a similar way to his songs “And It Stoned Me”, “Country Fair” and “Take Me Back”.[9] The difference with “Redwood Tree” is that it is not set in Belfast or Northern Ireland, where Morrison grew up, as Brian Hinton remarks:

“Redwood Tree” is a song of reconciliation, which seems to graft Van’s Belfast childhood onto California, where redwoods actually grow, “Keep us from all harm”, an invocation to the spirit of the ancient wood.[10]

Marin County

Mike Kappus

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