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''Keep It Simple'' is the thirty-third solo studio album recorded by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison. It was released on 17 March 2008 (see 2008 in music) by Exile Productions Ltd./Polydor in the U.K.. and on the Lost Highway Records label on 1 April 2008, in the U.S.. His previous studio album ''Pay the Devil'' was also released on the Lost Highway label, in March 2006. The album debuted at No. 10 on the US, UK and Canada charts and No. 7 on European Top 100 Albums. This album achieved Morrison's highest ranking in US charts. This is the first studio album of all new original material since his 1999 album ''Back on Top''. Other albums released since then have contained some cover songs. The May 2005 album, ''Magic Time'', was composed of ten originals and three cover songs. The album features most of the various genres that Morrison has been influenced by such as jazz, folk, blues, celtic, country, soul and gospel. ==Composition== In an interview on BBC Radio Four on 10 March 2008, Morrison spoke of his inspiration for the songs on the album: "It's got elements of blues, folk, gospel - all my influences . . . Curtis Mayfield. It's got a lot of inspiration from various things I was inspired by out there, but it comes out like a new album." Morrison wrote all eleven songs featured on the album and has been quoted as saying: "I felt I had something to say with these songs." In one of the songs, "That's Entrainment", Morrison says he has explained his approach to the music on the album. In his words: :Entrainment is when you connect with the music. . . . Entrainment is really what I'm getting at in the music. . . . It's kind of when you're in the present moment - you're here - with no past or future.〔(Van Morrison's Keep It Simple to be released by Lost Highway )〕 "That's Entrainment" was played for the first time, at the beginning of the second hour, on Chris Evans BBC 2 Drivetime show on Wednesday, 30 January 2008, with Evans commenting: "The new Van Morrison album came with a shoot-to-kill warning if played before a certain date, but that's now been lifted so we can play it."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chris Evans Drivetime )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keep It Simple」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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