Jackie Leven | Oh What a Blow That Phantom Dealt Me! – Jackie Leven ziet spoken.

Review taking up the album's ghost motif (warning notice in the inlay, collection of quotations in the booklet). Discussed are “Vox Humana”, “Another Man's Rain”, “I've Been Everywhere” as a tour of Germany with Johnny Dowd, Dowd's reading of Kenneth Patchen's “The Skaters”, the ode to Judee Sill and the Kevin Coyne homage “Here Come The Urban Ravens”; Leon Hunt (banjo) and Michael Cosgrave shape the sound. Verdict: well-disposed but undecided – some of it grips, some of it leaves one cold.