I arkiv: Jackie Leven – Forbidden Songs of the Dying West

In the “I arkiv” column, Tore Bø recommends the 1995 album: Defending Ancient Springs is, for him, the best album of the year, and the recent Bergen concert was his first Leven concert – a “middle-aged heavyset man in Harry clothes” alone with a guitar, who hit him straight in the soul. Now he is looking for forgotten gems: some consider Forbidden Songs his best album; Leven stands between Van Morrison and John Martyn. Singled out: “Young Male Suicide”, “Some Ancient Misty Morning”, “The Wanderer”; further recommendations are The Mystery of Love (1994) and Night Lilies (1998).