1974’s It’s Too Late To Stop Now is a wonderful snapshot of an ingenious artist riding high, embraced by a dedicated audience and seemingly incapable of doing wrong. The sense of infallibility is increased by the double album status of the record, which includes nine plus minutes of “Caravan” and a definitively devastating rendition of Sam Cooke’s “Bring It On Home”. Best of all is the remarkable version of “Into The Mystic”, possibly Van’s best song, when he lets loose on the title refrain. God damned right — we couldn’t stop now if we wanted to.