Jackie Leven
Gothic Road
2010 · Album
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Cooking Vinyl
- Catalogue number
- COOKCD519
Listen to the album
The digital edition includes two additional tracks.
Track listing
- Gothic RoadLive Essen 2010
- Last of the Badmen
- John Paul Getty's Silver Cadillac
- Cornelius Whalen
- Song for Bass Guitar and DeathLive Manchester 2009 · Essen 2010
- New WreathLive Manchester 2009
- Absolutely Joan Crawford (With a Bit of Tilda Swinton On the Side)
- My Lost BlondeLive Manchester 2009
- In a Shivering Blaze
- Hotel Mini Bar
- Shadow of a Man
- Island
In the press
- Jackie Leven – Gothic Road
Positive review: a “very solid Jackie classic” about the path of life (and of death), with specific pieces such as “Cornelius Whalen”, “Tilda Swinton” and “Mini Bar”, a guest appearance by Leven's old idol Ralph McTell and Cosgrave also on flute.
- Jackie Leven / Gothic Road
Song-by-song review: an opening with a German satnav announcement, “Cornelius Whalen” (about the last surviving participant of the 1936 Jarrow March) with Ralph McTell, “Song for Bass Guitar and Death” with Deborah Greenwood, and a German captain's announcement before “Hotel Mini Bar”.
- Jackie Leven: «Gothic Road» (review in the column “Et hode foran”)
Very positive review (“Sterkt”): Leven has become an elegant gentleman “with several ghosts in the closet”, an eternal outsider like his contemporaries John Cooper Clarke and Billy Childish.
- Leven leverer igjen
Positive short review: “Scotland's best-known Gypsy” has been delivering high-quality records since Doll by Doll in the late 1970s; after nearly dying in a street fight in the mid-1980s he fought his way back.
- Stødig fra Leven
“Bunnsolid”: Leven is among the most remarkable living lyricists, literary and full of pop-culture references, never showing off.
- Gothic Road – Jackie Leven (Rubrik „Musikk – Vurdert av Camilla Sørhus“)
Positive review: the “friend of Norway”, with a new release every eighteen months plus collaborations and bootlegs, is one of Britain's most industrious artists.