Jackie Leven and Michael Cosgrave - Wayside Shrines and the Code of the Travelling Man (Cooking Vinyl)

Detailed track-by-track review of the last studio album, which Leven recorded alone with Michael Cosgrave in the latter's studio on Dartmoor. Davies considers the leaner album equal to Lovers at the Gun Club and Fairytales for Hardmen, and singles out “To Live and Die in Levenland”, “Townes at the Borderline” (a memory of Townes Van Zandt) and “Beware Soul Brother”, which he links with the death of Leven's younger brother. According to the accompanying text, the songs were written mostly in German hotel rooms. No star rating, clearly positive overall.