Jackie Leven
Fairytales for Hardmen
1997 · Album
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Cooking Vinyl
- Catalogue number
- COOKCD 115
Listen to the album
Track listing
- Boy Trapped In A Man 4:38
- Desolation BluesLive London, 12 Bar Club 5:38
- Extremely Violent ManLive Only the Ocean Can Forgive · Bergen 2003 5:29
- Old West African Song 2:12
- Saint Judas 3:43
- PoortounLive London, 12 Bar Club · London 1998 · Trowbridge 1999 · Bergen 2003 · Rockpalast 2004 · Bremen 2004 · Cropredy 2004 · Trowbridge 2008 4:53
- Fear Of Women / Unchained Melody
- The Walled Coves Of Ravenscraig 3:04
- Sad Polish Song 5:19
- Sexual DangerLive London, 12 Bar Club 2:27
- Jim O'WindygatesLive Bremen 1999 · Kiel 2003 · Cropredy 2004 · Jackie Leven Said · Manchester 2009 5:38
- Mad As The Mist And Snow 2:52
- Kirkconnell Flow 2:49
- Listening To Crows PrayLive Milford 2001 3:40
- Sir Patrick Spens 2:52
- Sunflower 1:25
Live videos
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Rockpalast · Harmonie, Bonn
In the press
- Jackie Leven and Rolf Jacobsen's «Solsikke» – Fairy Tales for Hard Men
Music column reviewing the new album from the Rolf Jacobsen angle: Jacobsen's “Solsikke” closes Fairy Tales for Hard Men in Robert Bly's almost literal translation “Sunflower”, recited over a discreet rhythm.
- Ikke lett å være mann – Jackie Leven: «Fairy Tales For Hard Men»
Positive review: after the lost years of intoxication Leven has a lot to say; titles such as “Boy Trapped in a Man”, “Extremely Violent Man”, “Fear of Women” and “Sexual Danger” show that he is wrestling with the male role.
- Jackie Leven – Fairy Tales For Hard Men (Cooking Vinyl)
Benevolent review with a rating of 5 (out of 6): Leven has learned from his mistakes, and on the album a “knowing man” speaks in small novellas about subjects men hardly talk about, without a raised finger or sentimentality.
- Eventyr for harde menn – Jackie Leven: Fairy Tales for hard men (Cooking Vinyl/BMG)
Positive review that starts from the cover (Peter Howson's painting “The Bodybuilder”): a hard man who wants respect from men and love from a woman who never comes.
- Eventyr frå Jackie Leven – Jackie Leven: Fairytales for hardmen (Cooking Vinyl/BMG)
Lukewarm review in Nynorsk: fairy tales played a greater role in pre-Christian times; Leven tells of men and women who are supposed to emulate hard role models and combines this with pretty, melancholy folk-rock tones.
- En mann å stole på
Positive short review: Leven always has the critics on his side because he is a tradition-bearer; Creatures is atmospheric, tradition-inspired music that demands listening and then gives a lot back.
- Jackie Leven - Great Songs From Eternal Bars - Review
Carter recommends the low-priced four-CD box as the best introduction to Leven's “Celtic Soul” of folk, rock and poetry.
- Print version Jackie Leven var en av verdens beste kulthelter
Fully legible print version of the Plus article. Double-page spread with photos (Leven in Norway in 1998, Doll by Doll in 1981, the whisky “Leven's Lament” – with the note that it has been claimed these were his own labels on other people's bottles –, Levi Henriksen).