Jackie leven best songs
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Remember how you discovered new music before the internet? There was radio, the occasional TV programme and the music press. Sometimes you’d hear something and decide you wanted to buy it (so you could hear it whenever you want) and sometimes you’d take a chance and buy something without hearing it because of a writeup in the music press. Feels like a glimpse of a parallel universe, doesn’t it? This was how I discovered Jackie Leven – twice!
Sight unseen
In 1981 I bought a single Main Travelled Roads by Doll By Doll, on the strength of a music press review. I’d never heard the band and what I’d read about them was intriguing but sounded a bit outside my comfort zone. But the review promised an epic, sweeping ballad delivered by a rich baritone voice and the single delivered. I didn’t buy anything else by the band, but it became one of my favourite songs. It borrowed the melody from Johnny Mathis’s Twelfth of Never (of which more later) but the lyric spoke of myth and archetype, concluding with “Eternal is the warrior who finds beauty in his wounds.”
In 1994 I read t
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Michael Weston King is the former leader of 1990’s UK Alt Country pioneers The Good Sons, with whom he made four ground-breaking albums. From 1999 to 2010 he toured the world as a solo artist, performing with the likes of Nick Cave, John Cale, Roger McGuinn, Steve Earle, Guy Clark, Chris Hillman, Ron Sexsmith, Nils Lofgren and many more. During this time, he released six studio albums, three live albums and a career retrospective DVD, The Crowning Story. For the past ten years he has been part of the country soul duo My Darling Clementine with his wife, Lou Dalgleish. They have released five much lauded albums, the latest being Country Darkness, a collaboration with Steve Nieve, re-interpreting the songs of Elvis Costello. In April 2022 he released The Struggle, his first solo album in ten years. It features co-writes and contribution from friends and musical fellow-travelers Peter Case, Jeb Loy Nichols, and Jackie Leven. Over sixty different artists have recorded Michael’s songs including American folk music icon Carolyn Hester and his mentor, the late, great Townes Van Zandt.
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Jackie Leven
Scottish musician (1950–2011)
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| Birth name | Alan Moffatt[1] |
| Also known as | John St. Field, Sir Vincent Lone |
| Born | (1950-06-18)18 June 1950 Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland |
| Died | 14 November 2011(2011-11-14) (aged 61) |
| Genres | Folk, Rock, Celtic blues |
| Instrument | Guitar |
| Years active | Late 1960s – 2011 |
| Labels | Cooking Vinyl |
| Website | jackieleven.co.uk |
Musical artist
Jackie Leven (18 June 1950 – 14 November 2011) was a Scottish songwriter and folk musician. After starting his career as a folk musician in the late 1960s, he first found success with new wave band Doll by Doll.[2] He later recorded as a solo artist, releasing more than twenty albums under his own name or under the pseudonym Sir Vincent Lone.
Biography
Leven started his musical career in the late 1960s under the pseudonym John St Field, and recorded one album, Control, in 1971 which was released only in Spain in 1973.[3]
He formed the band Doll by Doll in 1977.[3] They released four
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