Artist.......: Jackie Leven
Album........: Oh What a Blow That Phantom Dealt Me!
Label........: Cooking Vinyl
Genre........: Folk
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Feb-01-2007
str.date.....: Feb-07-2007
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.jackieleven.com/
track title time
01. Vox Humana 05:04
02. One Man One Guitar 05:14
03. Another Man' Rain 05:54
04. Kings of Infinite Space 05:20
05. Childish Blues 05:31
06. I'e Been Everywhere 03:18
07. The Long Hard Field 03:41
08. The Silver In Her Crucifix 05:29
(Homage to Judee Sill)
09. Here Come The Urban Ravens 03:50
(Homage to Kevin Coyne)
10. The Skaters 06:59
11. Mellow My Madness 04:51
Runtime 55:11 min
Size 66,2 MB
Release Notes:
Album with Kindred Spirit Johnny Dowd, Leon Hunt
and DJ Unfit for Work.
A contemporary of fellow Fifer, Chancellor of the
Exchequer Gordon Brown, Jackie Leven made his first
forays into the music business in the late 1960s
under the pseudonym "John St Field" and recorded
one album Control in 1971.
In the following years he travelled, but
enthusiastic about Punk he formed the band Doll by
Doll in 1978 who, despite having a unique and
powerful live act, never broke through to the
mainstream. They released four albums between 1979
and 1982. Blending LSD visions, folk, blues,
celtic, psychedelic and punk influences the band,
who featured Leven as main songwriter, often
explored the darker side of human nature (Butcher
Boy/Sleeping Partners/The Palace of Love)
contrasted by the tough almost macho tenderness of
Stripshow/Chances/Janice/Highland Rain/Hey
Sweetheart.
After Doll by Doll disintegrated in 1983 Leven
embarked on his solo career. However following a
vicious and unprovoked attack in the street during
the recording of his first solo album in 1984,
Jackie was left unable to speak for nearly two
years -- the after effects of near strangulation.
During that time he slid into heroin addiction.
Despite that he, with fellow ex-Doll by Doll's Joe
Shaw and David Macintosh plus ex-Sex Pistol Glenn
Matlock, released a single Big Tears under the name
"Concrete Bulletproof Invisible" which was a Melody
Maker single of the week in 1988. He eventually
cured himself of his addiction though a mixture of
acupuncture and psychic healing, this led him to
form the CORE trust, which favours a holistic
approach to the treatment of heroin addiction.
In 1994 his solo career started in earnest with the
release of the album The Mystery of Love is Greater
than the Mystery of Death, which earned much
critical praise. Since then he has been extremely
prolific, releasing another 11 official solo albums
and a number of fanclub only releases, including a
joint album with crime writer Ian Rankin Jackie
Leven Said, featuring the keyboards of Michael
Cosgrave. His most recent release, in 2005, is the
album Elegy for Johnny Cash.