| You're Driving Me Crazy | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco |
| Cover: | You're Driving Me Crazy (Van Morrison album).jpg |
| Released: | April 27, 2018 |
| Recorded: | 2018 |
| Studio: | Studio D, Sausalito, California |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 71:00 |
| Label: | Sony Legacy |
| Producer: | Van Morrison, Joey DeFrancesco |
| Chronology: | Van Morrison |
| Prev Title: | Versatile |
| Prev Year: | 2017 |
| Next Title: | The Prophet Speaks |
| Next Year: | 2018 |
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.[1] 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.[2]
Pitchfork found that the album "captures the joy of making music", and praises "Joey DeFrancesco’s hard-driving soul-jazz combo". 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”.[3]
Original artist is Van Morrison except where noted.
| Chart (2018) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA)[4] | 54 |
| New Zealand Heatseeker Albums (RMNZ)[5] | 1 |
| Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[6] | 6 |