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Product description ------------------- CD 11. Cry For Home - With Tom Jones2. Too Long In Exile 3. Gloria - With John Lee Hooker4. Help Me - With Junior Wells (live) 5. Lonely Avenue/4 O'Clock In The Morning - With Jimmy Witherspoon (Live)6. Days Like This 7. Ancient Highway 8. Raincheck 9. Moondance - With Georgie Fame 10. Centrepiece - With Georgie Fame And Annie Ross11. That's Life (Live)12. Benediction - With Georgie Fame And Ben Sidran (Re-himix)13. Healing Game (Re-mix)14. I Don't Want To Go On Without You - With James HunterCD 21. Shanandoah - With The Chieftains2. Precious Time3. Back On Top (Re- mix)4. When The Leaves Come Falling Down 5. Lost John With Lonnie Donegan (Live) 6. Tupelo Honey 7. Meet Me In The Indian Summer (Orchestral Version Live)8. Georgia On My Mind9. Hey Mr DJ 10. Steal My Heart Away 11. Crazy Love - With Ray Charles 12. Once In A Blue Moon 13. Little Village 14. Blue And Green 15. Sitting On Top Of The World - With Carl Perkins16. Early In The Morning - With B.B. King17. Stranded .com ---- Navigating Van Morrison's extensive catalog since 1993 is a formidable task even diehard fans might not want to attempt. The Irish icon has flirted with blues, jazz, country, pop, Celtic, and his own style of indescribable into-the-mystic spiritually-oriented poetic folk on his numerous releases, making for quite a thorny culling assignment. So the EMI brass were probably ecstatic when the singer took the job himself. He weeds through a dozen or so albums released since Volume 2's mile-marker, and adds a clutch of previously unavailable mixes, rarities, and live tracks. The result: a nearly two-and-a-half-hour, 31-track double-disc set as sprawling, eclectic, and tenacious as Morrison's vision and discography. From occasionally rambling but spirited duets with veterans Bobby "Blue" Bland, Junior Wells, Georgie Fame, Lonnie Donegan, B.B. King, the Chieftains, Ray Charles, and even Tom Jones to concert versions of hits such as "Moondance" and an impressive take on Sinatra’s classic "That's Life," along with hidden gems like "Steal My Heart Away," this is a beautifully assembled and sequenced collection. It presents most of this multitalented auteur's facets and softens his often crusty exterior by showing his appreciation for the journeymen that helped develop the trail that Morrison then blazed in his own distinctive style. --Hal Horowitz