№ 16 of 100
Astral Weeks
Astral Weeks by Van Morrison (1968), № 16 in The Lead-In’s 100 greatest albums. Two days in a New York studio with jazz session players who'd never heard the songs. Van Morrison sang every take live. The folk-jazz album folk-jazz never quite repeats.
Read the full deep dive — pressing guide, session reconstruction and scoring data — on The Lead-In.