Release Date: 26 April 2024
Label: Made-In-Germany Music
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 4
Barcode: 885513029225
Genres: Rock Singer Songwriter
Description
For the first time two great live concerts by Jackie Leven in Bremen, lovingly restored and remastered from 27 May 1999 at Club Moments and 29 March, 2004 from the broadcasting hall of Radio Bremen are available in a 4 CD jewel box
The singer-songwriter, folk musician and storyteller Jackie Leven, born in 1950 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, the son of an Irishman and a Roma, began his musical career in the late 1960s under the pseudonym John St Field, under which he also recorded his first album "Control" in 1973. Inspired by punk, he founded the band Doll by Doll in London in 1978. The band's emotional, psychedelic-tinged New Wave was very well received live, but the band's four albums did not achieve the expected commercial sales results. After Doll By Doll disbanded in 1983, Jackie Leven focussed on his solo career. However, after a number of personal and health-related strokes of fate, it was not until 11 years later that this took off with the release of the album "The Mystery of Love Is Greater Than the Mystery of Death".
Jackie Leven also used several pseudonyms, for example he released three albums under Sir Vincent Lone with songs that were too out of the ordinary for his image as a folk musician. Leven died in 2011 at the age of 61 after a long, serious illness. His musical legacy also includes two concerts that Jackie gave in Bremen in 1999 and 2004, which were recorded by the broadcaster in the usual excellent sound quality. The 1999 concert in the Bremen music club "Moments" was performed by Jackie solo, in 2004 in the Radio Bremen broadcasting hall he was accompanied on keyboards by his long-time friend and web companion Michael Cosgrave.
Tracklisting
Agitation Free
Jackie Leven
Earthstar
38 Special
John Martyn Band
Michael Hoenig & Manuel Gottsching
Inga Rumph & Friends
John Cale & Band
Jackie Leven
Jackie Leven
Jackie Leven
Jackie Leven
Jackie Leven
Jackie Leven
Jackie Leven
