Munich Blues

In the press

• February 2009 · NetRhythms · Reviews

  Jackie Leven - The Haunted Year/Winter (Cooking Vinyl)

  Introduction to the Haunted Year series, with which Leven makes the eight limited fan-club albums regularly available after the end of the Haunted Valley magazine.

• 13 February 2009 · Gaesteliste.de · Reviews

  Jackie Leven – The Haunted Years

  Review of the double CD with two Haunted Valley live albums: the prison concert in Bergen (2000 according to the text), rather cool, and the recording from Munich's Muffathalle with Cosgrave and Deborah Greenwood, on which Leven shines as an entertainer.

• 17 February 2009 · Østlendingen (Elverum) · Reviews

  Fra Bergen fengsel – Jackie Leven: The Haunted Year. Winter

  Short review of the double CD The Haunted Year – Winter: Leven (Doll by Doll, then “på kjøret”, trapped again, since then a series of beautiful albums with impressive lyrics) feels at home in Bergen; one CD shows him alone with guitar at the concert in Bergen prison in 2003, where he occasionally tells…

• 1 March 2009 · Record Collector (Nr. 361) · Reviews

  Winter: Men In Prison & Munich Blues

  Kris Needs (who had followed Doll by Doll for ZigZag as early as 1978) calls Leven “the UK's mightiest troubadour” and welcomes the reissue of the Haunted Valley live albums.

• 5 May 2009 · Soundi (soundi.fi) · Reviews

  JACKIE LEVEN: The Haunted Year – Men In Prison/Munich Blues

  Finnish review of the double CD from the reissue series (concert in the Norwegian prison in Bergen and a solo concert in a Munich café), rated 4 out of 5 stars.