Vinyl Record

Van Morrison - Moving On Skiffle

Van Morrison - Moving On Skiffle on 2LP vinyl. A 2023 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

2LP · 2023

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2023 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Moving On Skiffle is Van Morrison's 2023 return to the pre-rock-and-roll current that helped shape British and Irish popular music in the 1950s. Across a long set, he revisits folk, blues, country and skiffle material not as museum pieces but as working songs: direct, rhythmic, social and built for players listening to one another. The project connects to Morrison's own childhood listening and to the wider skiffle lineage associated with Lonnie Donegan, Chris Barber and the do-it-yourself energy that fed later rock culture. Worried Man Blues, Green Rocky Road, Gypsy Queen and Freight Train keep the album close to vernacular song, while Morrison's phrasing gives the material his familiar mix of impatience, swing and spiritual emphasis. It is a roots record in the literal sense: a late-career artist returning to the soil under his own vocabulary.

Moving On Skiffle matters because it places Morrison's lifelong American roots obsession inside a specifically British and Irish skiffle memory. Released in 2023, it reframes familiar folk and blues material as the foundation of a whole pop generation rather than as quaint prehistory.

For collectors, this is a substantial late Van Morrison roots project and a useful counterpart to his rock-and-roll and standards explorations. Its appeal is in continuity: the same singer who absorbed blues, jazz, gospel and soul is tracing one of the channels that first carried those sounds into local hands.

Loose, rootsy skiffle with folk-blues standards, country swing, acoustic drive, upright rhythmic feel, harmonica colour and Morrison's conversational late-career vocal attack.

Recommended for: Van Morrison listeners interested in his roots projects; Collectors of skiffle, folk-blues and late-career Morrison albums; Fans of informal band performances built around traditional song.

When was Moving On Skiffle released? Moving On Skiffle was released in 2023. What kind of music is skiffle? Skiffle draws on folk, blues, jazz and country materials, usually with a direct rhythmic feel and informal ensemble spirit. Is Moving On Skiffle made of new Van Morrison songs? It is primarily a roots and reinterpretation project, with Morrison working through songs connected to folk, blues and skiffle tradition.