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Van Morrison, Overachiever

March 18, 2012

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Rod Dreher

However old you are, consider that in 1968, when he was only 23 years old, Van Morrison released “Astral Weeks.” He followed that up at 25 with “Moondance,” and then “His Band and the Street Choir,” and then at 26, “Tupelo Honey.”

What had you done by the age of 26? Me, not much. Then again, by the time he was 30, Van Morrison had creatively burned out. If you ask me — though I’ll conced that 1979’s “Into the Music,” and the glorious 1988 collaboration with the Chieftains are two arguments against that position.

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Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative. He has written and edited for the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate. Rod’s commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Beliefnet, and Real Simple, among other publications, and he has appeared on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife Julie and their three children. He has also written four books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Crunchy Cons, How Dante Can Save Your Life, and The Benedict Option.

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