You're Driving Me Crazy (album)

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You're Driving Me Crazy
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 27, 2018
Recorded2018
StudioStudio D, Sausalito, California
Genre Jazz
Length71:00
Label Sony Legacy
Producer Van Morrison, Joey DeFrancesco
Van Morrison chronology
Versatile
(2017)
You're Driving Me Crazy
(2018)
The Prophet Speaks
(2018)
Joey DeFrancesco chronology
Project Freedom
(2017)
You're Driving Me Crazy
(2018)
In the Key of the Universe
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 75/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Pitchfork 7/10 [3]

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]

Contents

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.TitleOriginal artistLength
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

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 (OCC) [17] 11
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [18] 6
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [19] 41
UK Albums (OCC) [20] 20
US Billboard 200 [21] 76

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