Home / Music / Van Morrison name-checks Wilde, Poe, and Thoreau in Fair PlayMusic linernotes album music van-morrisonVan Morrison name-checks Wilde, Poe, and Thoreau in Fair PlayVan Morrison’s “Fair Play,” the opening track on Veedon Fleece, names Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry David Thoreau in its lyrics. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesVan Morrison shaped Astral Weeks in Boston clubs before recording it in New YorkCritics called Astral Weeks mystical, divine, and outside of historyVeedon Fleece came together one night at a time, a few songs at a timeVan Morrison's Veedon Fleece blends folk jazz with Celtic texturesA contract dispute with Bang Records trapped Van Morrison before Astral WeeksExploreKeith Jarrett's trio is Jarrett, Peacock, and DeJohnetteBill Evans's The Real Book features Swallow, Harrell, Lovano, Miller, and DeJohnetteBill Evans's We Will Meet Again features a quintetThe Necks are an Australian trio of slow-build improvisationKarl Richter's 1958 St. Matthew Passion features Ernst Haefliger and Irmgard SeefriedPrevious Van Morrison recorded Veedon Fleece across two studios in 1973–1974Next Townes Van Zandt's Our Mother the Mountain is country-folk at its finest