Van Morrison – Somebody Tried To Sell Me A Bridge (2 x Vinyl Gatefold)

The 48th studio album from the Belfast lion, released on his own Orangefield label in January 2026, and a full-blooded return to the music he started out on with Them. Twenty tracks of near enough pure blues, cut at Studio D in Sausalito with a Bay Area house band and a remarkable guest list: Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal and Elvin Bishop all turn up, alongside longtime associates John Allair, David Hayes and Mitch Woods.

A loose successor to 2017's Roll with the Punches, the record digs into songs made famous by B.B. King, Lead Belly and Guy himself, from the opening Kidney Stew Blues through Snatch It Back and Hold It and Delia's Gone, with a handful of Morrison originals folded in. At eighty his voice is remarkably intact, and coming hot on the heels of the top ten Remembering Now, this catches him on the best run of form he's had in years. Sprawling, unfiltered and clearly enjoying himself.