This radical advancement of the concert documentary receives a superlative transfer from the Criterion Collection.
The album is a rote and low-energy jaunt by Van Morrison through the Great American Songbook.
Rather than treat the blues as a stuffy, academic genre exercise, Roll with the Punches plays like a party album.
Born to Sing: No Plan B is a recession album that’s four years too late.
Morrison channels the familiar, angry-old-man musings on art and public life that have driven his 21st-century output.
Pay the Devil is a well-intentioned homage to a brand of music now seemingly alien to those in Nashville and elsewhere.