Defending Ancient Springs

Defending Ancient Springs Artist: Jackie Leven
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 711297159127
EAN: 0711297159127
ASIN: B000031WEG


Release Date: 2000-08-29

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Tracks:

  1. You've Lost That Loving Feeling
  2. Single Father
  3. Paris Blues
  4. Defending Ancient Springs
  5. Working Man's Love Song
  6. I Saw My Love Walk Into C
  7. Hand Is Pale With Holy Ki
  8. Your Winter Days
  9. They Keys To The Forest
  10. Morbid Sky

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  1. Night Lilies
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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Slightly variable.......2005-06-13

This has some excellent tracks (single Father, Keys To the Forest), but other tracks (Paris Blues) are not really as much to my taste. Try other albums such as Night Lilies first!

2 out of 5 stars Ponderous Poetics.......2005-01-20

Leven's coverage of the 60s classic, 'You've Lost That Lovin Feeling' is very impressive. David Thomas lends a cracked harmony to it that is just right. At the opposite end of this CD is,'Morbid Sky'; opposite in every sense of emotion & harmonics. Thomas's Ubu connotations offer, on this track, a new dimension to the notion of displacement within the context of Leven's CD. Hard to take seriously that Leven claims the song(from Thomas's, Mirrorman) as part of one of 'the key recordings of our time'(sleeve notes).Not my time! The real problem on this outing is its pretentious poetic stigma. The writing and musical arrangements are leaden and literal. Leven has a good voice, perfect for crooning lullabyes & lovesick ballads. If you're getting on, like me, think Jim Reeves. More recently, think David Sylvan. But, sorry Jackie, the self importance is written too large, even on the packaging. No amount of hot wind can conceal the weakness of the lyrics. The less said the better.

5 out of 5 stars One off my favorites.......2000-07-16

This Cd belongs in everyones Cd-collection It was rated in the German Magazin:Audio as cd off the month.I heard some more off Jackie Leven but forget it. Buy this one! Sit down in your easy chair and listen.........

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