# When That Rough God Goes Riding

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- Book: [When That Rough God Goes Riding](https://www.bookquiver.com/greil-marcus/when-that-rough-god-goes-riding) ([When That Rough God Goes Riding.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/greil-marcus/when-that-rough-god-goes-riding.md))
- Authors: [Greil Marcus](https://www.bookquiver.com/greil-marcus)
- Publisher: publicaffairs
- ISBN: 978-15-8648-952-6
- Published: 2011-04-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This book is a quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through a close look at the most extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day: sometimes entire songs, sometimes single words or even the guttural spaces between words that become musical events in themselves.