Jackie Leven
Elegy for Johnny Cash
2005 · Album
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Cooking Vinyl
- Catalogue number
- COOK CD 331
Listen to the album
Track listing
- Blue Soul Dark Road 3:33
- Museum Of Childhood 4:35
- Elegy For Johnny CashLive Glasgow 2011 5:50
- Law Of Tide 2:46
- All The Rage 3:41
- No Honour In This Love 6:44
- Vibration White Finger 4:19
- King Of The Barley 5:12
- And You'll Never Hear Surf Music Again 6:08
- In Memory Of My Mother 2:01
- Gladly Go Blind 4:10
- Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students Of Zen 0:59
In the press
- Jackie Leven - Elegy for Johnny Cash
Review for the album's release (released 12.09.2005, Cooking Vinyl/Indigo) under the title “Black Suit”.
- Jackie Leven – Elegy For Johnny Cash
Positive review: like many people, Leven came to Cash only through the “American Recordings”; two songs are dedicated directly to Cash (the title track as an imagined last vocal recording by Cash, “The Law of Tide” sung by Robert Fisher).
- I Johnny Cashs fotspor
Very positive review: the album breathes love for Cash and for the country-rock/Americana tradition, paired with “honest and austere Scottish lyricism”.
- Album: Jackie Leven – Elegy for Johnny Cash
Gill appreciates Leven's portraits of men. The love songs convince him less.
- Gjennombruddet
Enthusiastic review, noting the Union Scene concert with the Small World Orchestra and Eivind Kløverød: Elegy for Johnny Cash is meant to be Leven's definitive breakthrough in Norway, comparable with Cohen and Van Morrison as “friends of Norway”.
- Enigmatisk
Short, positive review looking forward to Leven's concert at Checkpoint (Stavanger) “in just under a month”: even odd production decisions cannot spoil Leven's classic songwriting.
- Leven uten bråk
Short review: Leven, a mixture of poet and musician, almost always delivers something solid. The title leads one to expect a tribute album, but it is that only in part – a few pieces in Cash's style, otherwise his own songs, often dark, at times light and pretty; spoken word and a bit of “hip-hop light” without a central role.
- Jackie Leven | Elegy for Johnny Cash – Schotsman zoekt het experiment op.
Dielemans picks up from his 2004 Crossing Border interview in which Leven had announced an album in Beirut.
- Jackie Leven, Elegy for johnny cash
Belated review (the album had come out the previous year, before the Cash film): not a tribute or covers album, but new Leven songs with a homage in the title track and in “The Law Of Tide” (sung by Robert Fisher).