"Moonshine Whiskey" is a song written by singer-songwriter Van Morrison and is the concluding track of his 1971 album Tupelo Honey.
It was a popular tune with Morrison in the 1970s and he regularly performed it in concert. Brian Hinton writes that Morrison later admitted that he had written this song "for Janis Joplin or something" but goes on to say "though it is not autobiographical in the same way as Leonard Cohen's 'Chelsea Hotel Number Two'".[1]
In Tupelo Honey's Rolling Stone review Jon Landau says the song "is a joyful statement about the existence and continuation of love and the stability it offers."[2]
The song contains references to trains, railroads and the countryside, themes that Morrison has returned to throughout his career, as well as subjects country blues artists Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams often used.[3]
In 2017 "Moonshine Whiskey" came at number three in The Telegraph's "The 30 best songs about whiskey".[4]
^Hinton, Celtic Crossroads, p.137
^Landau, John (2 November 1971). "RS review: Tupelo Honey". rollingstone.com. Retrieved 7 February 2009.[dead link]
^Mills, Hymns to the Silence, p.24
^Chilton, Martin (1 March 2017). "The 30 best songs about whiskey". The Telegraph. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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