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JACKIE LEVEN's new album GOTHIC ROAD is to be released on 5th April 2010 on Cooking Vinyl records (COOKCD519),
The album features RALPH McTELL and.... The Barking Spider himself!
Cooking Vinyl's press release.....
Many of the songs are at once mystical but also locked in the daily grind of emotional survival. In keeping with his longstanding creative association with mavericks and outlaws, (David Thomas, Johnny Dowd etc) JACKIE collaborates here with fabled English renegade RALPH McTELL. RALPH supplies the yearning second lead vocal, plus Gibson acoustic guitars on CORNELIUS WHALEN, a song about the man who was the last of the Jarrow marchers left alive when JACKIE wrote the song – the Jarrow March being a superb example of the reality of the GOTHIC ROAD.
Elsewhere on the album, JACKIE fantasises about the creative dynamo that is actress TILDA SWINTON, hides in his hotel mini bar from the tyranny of endless touring, sings a song written by the original punk poet PATRIK FITZGERALD, (SHADOW OF A MAN) and welcomes on board a guest recording by his co-producer, the great Welsh singer DAVID WRENCH (ISLAND).
The album abounds with GOTHIC ROAD-ness, as in the coda of the song GOTHIC ROAD itself, where the royal road pomp of HENRY PRIESTMAN’s massed plucked cellos is counter-pointed by JOHN ROBERTS' skeletal spoons playing, casting a cold eye on the poverty-stricken end of the street.
The music on GOTHIC ROAD provides cast iron proof that the creative phenomenon that is JACKIE LEVEN is not simply continuing to go from strength to strength, but is close to passing out of sight on a road that others fear to tread.
JACKIE will be touring the UK to promote the album over coming months, dates as follows :
Tue 9 Feb LEICESTER, The Musician
Fri 12 Feb WESTCLIFF ON SEA, The Barlamb
Tue 23 Feb LONDON, The Slaughtered Lamb
Wed 24 Feb INVERNESS, Hootananny
Thu 25 Feb DUNFERMLINE, Abbey Abbot House by Dunfermline Abbey
Sat 27 Feb GALASHIELS, The String Jam Club
Thu 18 Mar STOURBRIDGE, Katie Fitzgerald
Fri 19 Mar LIVERPOOL, Masque
Fri 26 Mar AYR, Libertine
Wed 31 Mar COVENTRY, Taylor Johns House
Sat 29 May BRISTOL Colston Hall 2
Thu 3 Jun DERBY The Flowerpot
Thu 12 Aug HEBDEN BRIDGE Trades Club
Sun 29 Aug SOUTHSEA
Southsea Folk & Roots Festival Website: www.southseafolkfestival.co.uk * * * * * * *
Visit the official Jackie Leven Website and Myspace sites at:
http://www.jackieleven.co.uk
www.myspace.com/thejackieleven
Jackie Leven's tour dates are here :http://www.jackieleven.co.uk/live-dates.html
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