Jackie Leven
Shining Brother Shining Sister
2003 · Album
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Cooking Vinyl
- Catalogue number
- COOKCD 250
Listen to the album
Track listing
- Classic Northern DiversionsLive Only the Ocean Can Forgive · Bergen 2003 · Rockpalast 2004 · Bremen 2004 · Glasgow 2011 8:03
- Irresistible Romance 5:16
- Dust Elegy 1:38
- Savannah Waltz 5:20
- My PhilosophyLive Only the Ocean Can Forgive · Rockpalast 2004 · Bremen 2004 8:36
- Another Man In The Old Arcade 5:31
- A Little Voice In SpaceLive Rockpalast 2004 · Bremen 2004 · Manchester 2009 10:02
- Heroin Dealer Blues
- Faces 3:57
- Tied-Up HouseLive Bremen 2004 4:56
- Bells Of Grey Crystal 1:49
- 1798 5:05
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Rockpalast · Harmonie, Bonn
In the press
- CD: Jackie Leven – Shining Brother Shining Sister
Hymnic short review: nobody sings as poetically about trains leaving dirty industrial towns in the rain, or about the romance of backyards in Stockholm, Bergen and Amsterdam (“My Philosophy”).
- Gamle helter
Joint review of the new Cooking Vinyl albums by Richard Thompson (The Old Kit Bag) and Leven: both have made so many brilliant records that more of the same becomes a bit much, even if each is more than good in itself.
- En bedre Jackie Leven
Positive review: Leven is one of those musicians without a commercial spotlight, however solidly they work; Van Morrison fans must be satisfied, except that Leven draws on Scottish rather than Irish tradition.
- Plate: Jackie Leven - Poesi for en stille kveld
Review of Shining Brother, Shining Sister (Cooking Vinyl/VME, 66:50 min.) with guests such as David Thomas, Ron Sexsmith and Robert Bly.
- Jackie Leven leverer igjen
Enthusiastic review: Leven has never made a bad album; with his 18th record for Cooking Vinyl he is in top form, perhaps better than he has been for a long time.
- CD: Jackie Leven – Shining Brother, Shining Sister
Very positive review: after years of drug problems Leven seems to be staying on the “narrow path” and is more alert than ever; his slightly alternative “pop noir” works almost perfectly.
- Jackie Leven, Shining brother shining sister
A belated review which explicitly does not consider the album a masterpiece, but an open, many-voiced mosaic: guest names and text sources from Robert Bly, Rilke, Ron Sexsmith, Cummings, David Thomas, Sitwell, Neruda, Mandelstam and Ciaran Carson.