You're Driving Me Crazy (album)
2018 studio album by Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco
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You're Driving Me Crazy is the 39th studio album by Irish musician Van Morrison, his first in collaboration with American jazz organist & trumpeter Joey DeFrancesco.[4] His third album in just seven months, and released on 27 April 2018 by Sony Legacy, it reached the Top 20 in the UK, and features Morrison's daughter, Shana.[5]
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| Released | April 27, 2018 | |||
| Recorded | 2018 | |||
| Studio | Studio D (Sausalito, California) | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 71:00 | |||
| Label | Sony Legacy | |||
| Producer | Van Morrison, Joey DeFrancesco | |||
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Critical reception
Pitchfork found that the album "captures the joy of making music", and praises "Joey DeFrancesco’s hard-driving soul-jazz combo".[5] It notes approvingly that "the quintet knocked out the album in a couple of days, just like acts used to do in the mid-20th-century heyday of Blue Note and Prestige". DeFrancesco is "an ideal foil for Morrison. Respectful but impish", it finds. "Van Morrison continues to prove he’s among the hardest-working vocalists in jazz and its adjacent musical territories", DownBeat concludes. The albums sees Morrison "varying pace and mood to supreme effect", with "DeFrancesco creating a vortex of colliding lines" on the track “Evening Shadows”.[6]
Track listing
Original artist is Van Morrison except where noted.
| No. | Title | Original artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Miss Otis Regrets" | Cole Porter | 5:15 |
| 2. | "Hold It Right There" |
| 4:08 |
| 3. | "All Saints Day" | 3:05 | |
| 4. | "The Way Young Lovers Do" | 4:13 | |
| 5. | "The Things That I Used to Do" | Guitar Slim | 5:56 |
| 6. | "Travellin' Light" | 4:18 | |
| 7. | "Close Enough for Jazz" | 4:44 | |
| 8. | "Goldfish Bowl" | 7:05 | |
| 9. | "Evening Shadows" |
| 3:21 |
| 10. | "Magic Time" | 5:13 | |
| 11. | "You're Driving Me Crazy" | Walter Donaldson | 4:46 |
| 12. | "Every Day I Have the Blues" | Peter Chatman | 5:38 |
| 13. | "Have I Told You Lately" | 4:52 | |
| 14. | "Sticks and Stones" | Titus Turner | 2:46 |
| 15. | "Celtic Swing" | 5:15 |
Personnel
- Van Morrison – vocals, alto saxophone, harmonica
- Joey DeFrancesco – Hammond organ, keyboards, trumpet, backing vocals
- Dan Wilson – guitar
- Michael Ode – drums, percussion
- Troy Roberts – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
- Shana Morrison – backing vocals on "Hold It Right There" and "Have I Told You Lately"
Charts
| Chart (2018) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA)[7] | 54 |
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[8] | 11 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[9] | 35 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[10] | 167 |
| Canadian Albums (Billboard)[11] | 100 |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[12] | 29 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[13] | 10 |
| Irish Albums (IRMA)[14] | 39 |
| Italian Albums (FIMI)[15] | 62 |
| New Zealand Heatseeker Albums (RMNZ)[16] | 1 |
| Scottish Albums (Official Charts)[17] | 11 |
| Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[18] | 6 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[19] | 41 |
| UK Albums (Official Charts)[20] | 20 |
| US Billboard 200[21] | 76 |