Exile/Legacy Recordings will release The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition) on March 22nd. This 3CD set features the original album and original single B-sides along with two bonus discs of rare and unreleased material, including studio outtakes, duets with John Lee Hooker and Carl Perkins, and Van’s set at the Montreux Jazz Festival. 24 of these tracks have never been released.





Full Tracklist



Disc 1 – (The Original Album…Plus)

1. Rough God Goes Riding

2. Fire in the Belly

3. This Weight

4. Waiting Game

5. Piper at the Gates of Dawn

6. Burning Ground

7. It Once Was My Life

8. Sometimes We Cry

9. If You Love Me

10. The Healing Game



Bonus tracks

11. Look What the Good People Done

12. At the End of the Day

13. The Healing Game (single version)

14. Full Force Gale '96 (single version)

15. St. Dominic's Preview



Disc 2 - Sessions & Collaborations

1. The Healing Game (alternate version) (previously unissued)

2. Fire in the Belly (alternate version) (previously unissued)

3. Didn't He Ramble (previously unissued)

4. The Healing Game (jazz version) (previously unissued)

5. Sometimes We Cry (full length version) (previously unissued)

6. Mule Skinner Blues

7. A Kiss to Build a Dream On (previously unissued)

8. Don't Look Back - John Lee Hooker

9. The Healing Game - John Lee Hooker

10. Boppin' the Blues - Carl Perkins & Van Morrison (previously unissued)

11. Matchbox - Carl Perkins & Van Morrison (previously unissued)

12. Sittin' on Top of the World - Carl Perkins & Van Morrison (arranged by Van Morrison)

13. My Angel - Carl Perkins & Van Morrison (previously unissued)

14. All By Myself - Carl Perkins & Van Morrison (previously unissued)

15. Mule Skinner Blues - Lonnie Donegan & Van Morrison



Disc 3 - Live at Montreux 17 July 1997 (all tracks previously unreleased)

1. Rough God Goes Riding

2. Foreign Window

3. Tore Down A La Rimbaud

4. Vanlose Stairway/Trans-Euro Train

5. Fool For You

6. Sometimes We Cry

7. It Once Was My Life

8. I'm Not Feeling It Anymore

9. This Weight

10. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)

11. Fire in the Belly

12. Tupelo Honey/Why Must I Always Explain

13. The Healing Game

14. See Me Through/Soldier of Fortune/Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)/Burning Ground