His debut album, with "Brown Eyed Girl".
Blowin' Your Mind, the first album by Van Morrison, is generally regarded as the warming up round to Astral Weeks (1968), a critically acclaimed masterpiece by this Northern Irish blues singer. But Blowin' Your Mind really is a masterpiece in its own right, containing truly epic tracks such as the megahit "Brown Eyed Girl", the somewhat funky "Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)" and "Midnight Special", a traditional with a contemporary groove and infectious bass line.
"T.B. Sheets", one of the most real songs about death you'll ever hear, is a 10-minute organ packed blues jam about a dying girlfriend and one of the sweatiest and claustrophobic tunes to come out of the sixties.
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