JACKIE LEVEN - One Long Cold Morning

[@grendel_nz]

Happy birthday Jackie. You're always in our hearts and memories.

[@joe2348]

Saw Jackie in Tregaron's Talbot Hotel in Wales a few years ago. Was a magical evening. Paid £10 for CD of his which was to be posted with handwritten lyrics enclosed. After a few months, had received nothing, so wrote a caustic comment on his Myspace. 2-3 days later received the CD, 2 poems, a handwritten apology, and another CD. A true gentleman, a fantastic artist. Sorely missed. Heddwch.

[@djangoherbert]

woke up this morning, didn't feel so good . How true - tomorrow morning thousands of us will feel the same! RIP Jackie, somewhere over the rainbow.

[@Hypersynthesis]

RIP, very sad, a great songwriter, criminally underrated.

[@stigmataji]

He was a kind man. i can testify to that.

[@jackielev1023]

I love jackie and his songs, from fareast Japan. 日常に追われているうち、ジャッキーの死を２年あまりも過ぎて知ることになってしまった　いつか彼のギグに行くのが夢だったのに… 彼は私の魂の兄貴でした　

[@McManimal73]

I was always deeply touched by his music and never realized that there is no other artist that I have bought more records of until the day he died and I listened to every Jackie Leven/Balfour-, Doll by Doll- and Vincent Lone record I have. He left an enormous and extraordinary legacy and when I read of the few people who appreciated his music I understand that they will never forget him. His songs weren't for the crowd, but for them who were willing to listen. God bless you Jackie, I miss you.

[@spiderpromos]

Jackie was one of the loveliest men I ever met. I only met him in 2001, but we became good friends right up until his untimely death. I really, really miss him terribly..........

[@Inhabitantofthelake]

Rest in Peace Jackie, your music shall stay with us forever.

[@andycrawford5257]

Saw him so many times but never tired of his stage presence and songs. Will never get tired of his music and his memory. He really is so much better than so many of the so called legends out there but thats how it works. Hopefully time will allow his music out more people. A man with attitude and some say hard man, but a kind man was the truth as long as you never pissed him off...

[@theresa8879]

Was so fortunate to have purchased a Doll by Doll album at a thrift store.his voice has such warmth

[@dirkbogarde44]

Haunting music, beautiful images. RIP Jackie.

[@R1300GS]

R.I.P. Jackie; this last CD is still playing again ... thank you for all the wonderful concerts I could share with you and even Michael Cosgrave.

[@angryman9]

@cockneyrichy I saw him in Burnley a few years back:twenty people in the audience. He played for two and a half hours, and told some fantastic stories. Possibly the most overlooked and underrated musician this country has ever produced. R.I.P

[@DrunkenPostie]

You're still here, Jackie. Been a while, but you are still here.

[@mpy1202]

Only discovered Jackie after he died, would have loved to see him live. Thanks for posting and sharing.

[@jerryoliver7963]

Same here. I read his obituary then bought a CD and thought ‘my on earth is it possible to have never heard of such a brilliant songwriter.

[@pompousprat]

Beautiful images.Jackie great,as always. Thank you.

[@Deliquescentinsight]

Only just found out Jackie passed, I just cannot believe it..he was a force of nature. Farewell brother maybe next time ..just bereft.

[@audleynick]

I saw John Martyn a few weeks before he died. The terrestial bodies of our rock generation float away. Thanks for everything Jackie.

[@BlueSkyBS]

Heard about Jackie when Fairytales for Hardmen came out, but didn't really pursue his music until shortly before his passing. I feel like so much of that gap was wasted not getting to know Jackie and his music better in retrospect.

[@margaretbooth3791]

Loved this man

[@minigazoline1460]

rip and thanks to Ian Rankin who dedicated his book ...standing in another man's grave, to him

[@stigmataji]

Crying now.

[@davidsmith6355]

Me too. I loved Doll by Doll but never saw them, eventually caught up with Jackie in Leicester in 2011 (I think). He was great of course. I was planning to go and see him again 3 or 4 years ago and was shocked to found out that he had died. I am still shocked now. I have just sent a video of Poortoun with chords etc to my 20 year old daughter with a brief description of how great Jackie was. I hope she does the song because she has the right voice for it and sings with great expression.

[@michaelaaylott1686]

I saw him in Leicester too, but some years before you - a wonderful experience

[@TheClifford1958]

i agree mc man with your said on jackie i wont forget him and his music it would be good if joe and dave kevin hewick got to gether for a jackie leven tribute gig play some d by d jackie songs maybe procedes go to the core

[@murphsup]

Beautiful appropriate images. & why isn't this classy track on the main album? I want a word with Jackie about track selection!

[@muzqu]

Hey I'm a fan since, well, can anybody be a fan solely on the strength of a Zig Zag magazine article about the band Doll By Doll from 1979? Because it wasn't until 1983 that I bought the third Doll By Doll album, for three bucks, from the cut-rate bin at Off The Record in El Cajon Blvd. in San Diego. The last Doll By Doll album "Grand Passion", which I bought at the Virgin Megastore in Oxford Street in 1984 was mediocre, and then about nine years laters he came back as a solo artiste and I ordered every CD from Cooking Vinyl. A couple of them are autographed even.