Turning 71 later this summer Van Morrison has a new album, it’s just been announced, set for late-September release. The new album, the cover of which is above, will arrive just over a year after his emotional Cyprus Avenue shows in his hometown of Belfast.

Mostly new songs the release, on yet another label Caroline Records after a stint on RCA, the singer’s 36th studio album, follows last year’s starry Duets album and has a dozen new songs plus a version of ‘Share Your Love With Me,’ first released by a hero and former singing partner of Morrison’s, Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, a couple of months before Them’s ‘Baby Please Don’t Go/‘Gloria’ was released back in 1964.

Morrison has worked with the legendary lyricist Don Black (whose lyrics include ‘Born Free’, and ‘Ben’) on ‘Every Time I See A River,’ according to album information gleaned from vanmorrison.com.

A single, ‘Too Late,’ which Morrison has been singing live at recent club shows along with the Black co-write, including gigs at Vince Power’s Nell’s Jazz Club in west London a fortnight ago, will be released as well as the album on the same day of release.