by Jason Ankeny
Tupelo Honey is typical of Van Morrison's early-'70s work in both sound and structure; after dispensing with the requisite hit -- here, the buoyant, R&B-inflected &Wild Night& -- he truly gets down to business, settling into a luminously pastoral drift typified by the nostalgic &Old Old Woodstock.& At the heart of the record are a pair of stunning love songs, &You're My Woman& and the hymn-like title cut, one of Morrison's most enduring and transcendent compositions.