Jackie Leven
Lovers at the Gun Club
2008 · Album
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Cooking Vinyl
- Catalogue number
- COOKCD464
Listen to the album
Track listing
- Lovers at the Gun Club
- Fareham Confidential
- The Innocent Railway
- The Dent In The Fender And The Wheel Of Fate
- My Old Home
- Head Full Of War
- I've Passed Away From Human Love
- To Whom It May Concern
- Olivier BluesLive Westcliff 2009
- Woman In A CarLive Only the Ocean Can Forgive
- Heart In My SoulLive Manchester 2009 · Vienna 2010 · Glasgow 2011
In the press
- Foruroligende – Jackie Leven: Lovers at the Gun Club
Positive short review from the record page: Hovensjø introduces Leven (58) as a poet and musician who began as John St. Field, was singer of Doll by Doll, has a spell as a junkie behind him and has since delivered one great album after another.
- JACKIE LEVEN – Lovers At The Gun Club
Enthusiastic short review: never have Leven's interpretations been “so snotty, skewed, rough”; in the title track, sung by Johnny Dowd, Leven quotes Van Morrison's “Gloria”.
- JACKIE LEVEN I've passed away from human love…
Blog post by the Greek critic Fontas Troussas: translates Leven's booklet note for “Greek Notebook” (seven years each May and September on Astypalea), recounts how, through the Korean reissue of “Control” (2002, Merry-Go-Round/Beatball, 500 LPs, with liner notes by Leven), he learned that John St. Field is Leven, and reviews “The Haunted Year / Spring” (Celtic Soulmen; The Stornoway Girls with Kevin Hewick, Dan Britton, Lee Allatson) and “Lovers At The Gun Club” (recorded in Wales, one of his most “American” albums, with a Kenneth Patchen setting and a David Childers song). Overall verdict: very positive. Mentions earlier Leven reviews on the blog and in “Jazz & Τζαζ”.