1969-1988



altWHEN I WENT OUT TO KILL MYSELF
1969
(Recorded during BBC sessions in Newcastle and released 1998 as Haunted 1)

1 Leaving Blues 2 The Never Song 3 Ruins 4 Jazz Theme from Rosemary's Empty Cellar 5 Clandestine 6 The Air In Langholm 7 Big Question 8 The Ballad of Anne Redmond

Jackie Leven: vocals & guitar, Colin Soutar: vocals & guitar
altCONTROL
1971 Movie Play S-32.738 (re-released in 1997)

1 Soft Lowland Tongue 2 Ruins 3 The Problem 4 Dune Voices 5 Rearona 6 I'm Always A Prinlaws Boy 7 Mansion Tension 8 Dog Star 9 Sleeping in Bracken

John St. Field (Guitars, Bass, Vocals), John Haines (Percussion), Phil Ryan (Keyboards), Joe Kuccer (Flute, Baritone Sax), Alex Atterson (Piano), Jesse Ballard, Juliet Lawson (Vocals)
altREMEMBER
1979 March, Automatic Records K 56618

1 Butcher Boy 2 Chances 3 Sleeping Partners 4 More Than Human 5 Lose Myself 6 Janice 7 The Palace of Love

Jackie Leven: vocals, Burns Splitsound & VoxAC30, Jo Shaw: vocals, Fender Stratocaster, VoxAC30, Robin Spreafico: vocals, Gibson Les Paul Triumph bass, & Fender Bassman, David McIntosh: vocals, Rogers Londoner Kit drums.
altThe Palace Of Love 7" b/w The Fountain is Red The Fountain is White
1979 Automatic Records K17330
altGYPSY BLOOD
1979
October, Automatic Records K56755

1 Teenage Lightning 2 Gypsy Blood 3 Strip Show 4 The Human Face 5 Hey Sweetheart 6 Binary Fiction 7 Hell Games 8 Forbidden Worlds 9 Highland Rain 10 Endgame 11 When A Man Dies

Jackie Leven: vocals & guitar, David McIntosh: vocals & drum, Jo Shaw: vocal: guitar, Graham Preskett: violin & keyboards, B.J.Cole: guitar & steel guitar, Tony Waite: vocal & bass.
altTeenage Lightning 7" b/w One Two Blues
1979 Automatic Records K17498
altGypsy Blood 7" b/w Lose Myself
1979 Automatic Records K17559
altREVENGE OF MEMORYv.kg gjgkgk gkugu hlih y hoh g jgk
2006 Cooking Vinyl COOKCD366
(Live at Sheffield Limit Club 1980)

1 Chances 2 Butcher Boy 3 Janice 4 Sleeping Partners 5 More Than Human 6 Palace of Love
altDOLL BY DOLL
1980
Magnet Records MAGL5039

1
Figure It Out 2 Caritas 3 Soon New Life 4 Main Travelled Roads 5 Those In Peril 6 I Never Saw The Movie 7 The Perfect Romance 8 Fantastic Sensation 9 The Street I Love 10 Be My Friend 11 Up 12 A Bright Green Field

Jackie Leven: vocals & guitars, Jo Shaw: vocals, guitars, mandolin, piano, Tony Waite: vocals & bass, David McIntosh: vocals, percussion & marimba, Geoff Westley: Oberheim; Shelley Morris: congas; Rod Beddall: accordian, Pete Gibson: harmonica, Wild Tom Newman: backing vocal, Nina Spencer: backing vocal; Fiona Prendergast: backing vocal; Susie O'List: backing vocal.
altMain Travelled Roads 7" b/w Be My Friend
1981 MAG188
altCaritas 12" / Murder On The Highway / An Honest Woman (live)
1981 Magnet Records 12 MAG195

Caritas 7" b/w An Honest Woman
1981 Magnet Records MAG195
altUnder My Thumb 7" b/w Eternal
1982 MAG229
altGRAND PASSION
1982
MAGL 5047

1 Strong Hands 2 Under My Thumb 3 Dancing Shoes 4 Cool Skies 5 Eternal 6 Lonely Kind Of Show 7 Natural 8 Grand Passion 9 City Of Light 10 Dawn of the Rain Girls 11 Boxers Hit Harder When Women Are Around 12 So Long Kid

Jackie Leven: vocals & guitar, Helen Turner: vocals & keyboards, Tom Norden: vocals, guitar & bass, John Field: percussion & flute, Graham Board: drums, Mel Collins: saxophone; Dave Gilmour: guitar; Tim Cross: keyboards. Rod Bedall: accordian. Maggie Riley: backing vocal. Cori Josias: backing vocal. Tom Newman: backing vocal.
altLAST FLICK OF THE GOLDEN WRENCH
1982

Track listing unknown.
altTHE ROBBERIES OF THE RAIN
1983
(released 2005)

1 A Beautiful Train 2 Love Is Shining Down On Me 3 Braid On My Shoulder 4 Tropic Of Cool 5 Uptown 6 Mindless Sweethearts Underground 7 Great Spirit Calls 8 Goodbye 9 Act Of Love 10 Meet Me At The Top Of The World 11 My Bonnie Dearie 12 Irish Channel Walk So Fine 13 When We Were Here Together
altLove Is Shining Down On Me 12" / Great Spirit Calls / Mindless Sweethearts Underground
1983 Virgin Records JACK 112

Love Is Shining Down On Me 7" b/w Great Spirit Calls
1983
altUptown 12" / Tropic Of Cool / A Beautiful Train
1984 Virgin Records JACK 212

Uptown 7" b/w A Beautiful Train
1984
altCONCRETE BULLETPROOF INVISIBLE
Big Tears
12" b/w Braid On My Shoulder / Good Thing
1988 Radioactive Records

Big Tears 12" b/w Braid On My Shoulder / Good Thing/ Love Kills
1988 Dimension Records

Big Tears 7" b/w Braid On My Shoulder
1988 Radioactive Records

Jackie Leven: vocals, Jo Shaw: guitar, Glen Matlock: bass, David McIntosh: drums, James Hallawell: keyboards, Mike Spencer: harp.

1993 - 2011



altTHE MYSTERY OF LOVE IS GREATER THAN THE MYSTERY OF DEATH
1994
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD065

1 Clay Jug 2 Shadow In My Eye 3 Call Mother A Lonely Field 4 The Crazy Song 5 Farm Boy 6 The Garden 7 Snow In Central Park 8 Looking For Love 9 Heartsick Land 10 Gylen Gylen 11 I Say A Little Prayer 12 The Bars Of Dundee
altTHE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT
1994 Cooking Vinyl COOKCDS064

1 Call Mother A Lonely Field (radio edit) 2 Donna Karan 3 Stranger On The Square 4 Ballad Of A Simple Heart 5 Horseshoe And Jug 6 Mary Jane's Dog 7 So My Soul Can Sing
altSONGS FROM THE ARGYLL CYCLE
1994 Cooking Vinyl COOKCD065

1 Call Mother A Lonely Field 2 I Say A Little Prayer 3 Heartsick Land 4 Gylen Gylen 5 So My Soul Can Sing
altFORBIDDEN SONGS OF THE DYING WEST
1995 Cooking Vinyl COOKCD090

1 Young Male Suicide Blessed By Invisible Woman 2 Some Ancient Misty Morning 3 Working Alone / A Blessing 4 Leven's Lament 5 Marble City Bar 6 The Wanderer 7 Exultation 8 Men In Prison 9 Birds Leave Shadows 10 Stornoway Girl 11 Silver Roof 12 Lammermuir Hills 13 Come Back Early Or Never Come14 By The Sign Of The Shattered Star 15 The Scene That Haunts My Memory 16 My Lord What A Morning
altLEVENS LAMENTv.kg gjgkgk gkugu hlih y hoh g jgk
1995 Cooking Vinyl FRYCD042

1 Leven's Lament 2 Marble City Bar 3 Exultation
4 Dolphin Man
altTHE ARGYLL CYCLE
1996 Cooking Vinyl COOKCD101

1 Stranger On The Square 2 Walking In Argyll 3 Honeymoon Hill 4 Looking For Love 5 Grievin' At The Mish Nish 6 Ballad Of A Simple Heart 7 As We Sailed Into Skibbereen 8 Some Ancient Misty Morning 9 The History Of Rain 10 Gylen Gylen 11 Fly 12 The Crazy Song
altFOR PEACE COMES DROPPING SLOW
1997
Haunted Valley Records
Originally a fanclub only release. Later released in 2004 by Cooking Vinyl COOKCD282

1 Jesus Bodybuidler Blues/Cocaine Blues/Cannot Keep From Crying 2 Arctic Sex 3 Uist Tramping Song 4 Sacred Bond 5 Call Mother A Lonely Field 6 Fear Of Woman 7 Sexual Danger 8 Acid Roast Beef 9 Poortoun 10 Whisky Story 11 Desolation Blues 12 Jackie Losing It 13 Marble City Bar 14 Pale Blues Eyes 15 Main Travelled Roads 16 Slim Slow Slider

Solo acoustic performance at the Twelve Bar Club in London.

altFAIRYTALES FOR HARDMEN
1997 Cooking Vinyl COOKCD115

1 Boy Trapped In A Man 2 Desolation Blues 3 Extremely Violent Man 4 Old West African Song 5 Saint Judas 6 Poortoun 7 Fear Of Women / Unchained Melody 8 The Walled Coves Of Ravenscraig 9 Sad Polish Song 10 Sexual Danger 11 Jim O'Windygates 12 Mad As The Mist And Snow 13 Kirkconnell Flow 14 Listening To Crows Pray 15 Sir Patrick Spens 16 Sunflower
altMAN BLEEDS IN GLASGOW
1998
Haunted Valley Records HV2
Originally a fanclub only release. Later paired with Greetings From Milford and released in 2009 by Cooking Vinyl as 'The Haunted Year: Spring' COOKCD484

1 Intro 2 Farm Boy 3 (Guardian Preview) 4 Glenarm / Burning The Box Of Beautiful Things 5 Looking For Love 6 Man Bleeds In Glasgow 7 (Golf On The Moon) 8 Night Lilies 9 Snow In Central Park 10 (Fear In Bermondsey) 11 Poortoun 12 Deep Choking Wooded Death Fix 13 (Erotic Football Results) 14 Call Mother A Lonely Field

Recorded live at Water Rat, Grays Inn Road, London on September 16th 1998.


altNIGHT LILIES
1998
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD153

1 Night Lilies 2 Burning the Box of Beautiful Things 3 Empty In Soho Square 4 Alvis Green 5 Live Or Die 6 Carnival Dark 7 Universal Blue 8 Deep Choking Wooded Death Fix 9 Me & Angela 10 Ireland For Losers 11 Sick Harbour Lament
altTHE WANDERER
1999
Haunted Valley Records HV3CD
A fanclub only release

1 Your Winter Days 2 Newfoundland Blues / Some Ancient Misty Morning / Working Alone / Sex Tourist 3 Heartsick Land 4 Stranger On The Square (etc.) 5 The Keys To The Forest 6 Poortoun (Losing My Voice) 7 I Can't Afford To Care Anymore (Doll By Doll) 8 A Blessing 9 When A Man Dies (with Jo Shaw)

1. Bryn Derwen, Bethesda, Wales, UK. 2. The Three Weeds, Rozelle, Sydney, Australia. 3. Bergen, Norway. 4. Guidhall, Leicester, UK. 5. St. Columba Cathedral, Oban, Scotland. 6. Radio Mercury Concert, Poznan, Poland. 7. Borderline, London, UK. 8. Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, London, UK. Performed as part of "Mirrorman" during a 4-day festival, "David Thomas: Disastodrome!" 9. Bryn Derwen, Bethesda, Wales, UK.


altGREEK NOTEBOOK
1999
Haunted Valley Records
Originally a fanclub only release. Later paired with Only The Ocean Can Forgive and released in 2009 by Cooking Vinyl as 'The Haunted Year: Autumn'. COOKCD486

1-33 Island One - Island Thirty Three

Recorded in "glorious lo-fi on a Sony Professional Walkman" on a Greek island 1991 - 1997.

altMUNICH BLUES
2000
Haunted Valley Records HV5
A fanclub only release. Later paired with 'Men In Prison' and released by Cooking Vinyl in 2008 as 'The Haunted Year: Winter'. COOKCD483

1 Looking For Love 2 Stranger On The Square 3 Universal Blue 4 Single Father 5 I Saw My Love Walk Into Clouds 6 Paris Blues 7 You've Lost That Loving Feeling

altDEFENDING ANCIENT SPRINGS
2000 Cooking Vinyl COOKCD191

1 You've Lost That Loving Feeling 2 Single Father 3 Paris Blues 4 Defending Ancient Springs 5 The Working Man's Love Song6 I Saw My Love Walk Into Clouds 7 Hand Is Pale With Holy Kisses 8 Your Winter Days 9 The Keys To The Forest 10 Morbid Sky
altDEEP IN THE HEART OF NOWHERE
2001
Haunted Valley Records HV4
A fanclub only release. Later paired with 'Barefoot Days' and released by Cooking Vinyl in 2009 as 'The Haunted Year: Summer'. COOKCD485

1 Rain Of Kathleen 2 Nottamun Town 3 Intro - Wobbly Grapefruit 4 Universal Blue 5 Shit In Your Garden/Regional Styles Of Complaint 6 Marble City Bar 7 Bethesda Chip Shop 8 Single Father 9 Hitler's Henchmen 10 New York Plugger 11 The Working Man's Love Song 12 Little Bird 13 Paris Blues/Down By The River

Live at The Greys, Brighton, England UK (with David Thomas and Deborah Greenwood), plus two acoustic studio tracks.
altCREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS
2001 Cooking Vinyl COOKCD213

1 My Spanish Dad 2 Exit Wound 3 The Sexual Loneliness Of Jesus Christ 4 Hidden World Of She 5 Billy Ate My Pocket 6 Rainy Day Bergen Women 7 Friendship Between Men & Women 8 Stopped By Woods On A Snowy Evening 9 Washing By Hand 10 Wrapped Up In Blue
altBAREFOOT DAYS
2002
Haunted Valley Records
A fanclub only release. Later paired with 'Deep In The Heart Of Nowhere' and released by Cooking Vinyl in 2009 as 'The Haunted Year: Summer'. COOKCD485

1 Barefoot Days 2 Billy Ate My Pocket 3 Stopped By Woods On A Snowy Evening 4 Washing By Hand 5 Desolation Blues 6 Exit Wound 7 Listening To Crow's Pray

Live from The Black Horse, Otley, England.

altGREETINGS FROM MILFORD
2002
Haunted Valley Records
Originally a fanclub only release. Later paired with Man Bleeds In Glasgow and released in 2009 by Cooking Vinyl as 'The Haunted Year: Spring'. COOKCD484

1 She Belongs To Me 2 Pale Blue Eyes 3 Walking In Argyll 4 Waiting For My Man 5 Listening To Crows Pray 6 Madam George 7 Who Is He And What Is He To You? 8 Paris Blues
9 Main Travelled Roads

Recorded live at Milford Social Club on Saturday 8th Dec 2001 by Neil Segrott.

altSHINING BROTHER SHINING SISTER
2003 Cooking Vinyl COOKCD250

1 Classic Northern Diversions 2 Irresistible Romance 3 Dust Elegy 4 Savannah Waltz 5 My Philosophy 6 Another Man In The Old Arcade 7 A Little Voice In Space 8 Heroin Dealer Blues 9 Faces 10 Tied-Up House 11 Bells Of Grey Crystal 12 1798
altMEN IN PRISON
2003
Haunted Valley Records Clan1
A fanclub only release. Later paired with 'Munich Blues' and released by Cooking Vinyl in 2008 as 'The Haunted Year: Winter'. COOKCD483

1 Men In Prison 2 Opening Remarks To Prisoners 3 Extremely Violent Man 4 Poortoun 5 Call Mother A Lonely Field 6 The Garden 7 Classic Northern Diversions 8 The Crazy Song

A live recording of Jackie Leven playing in concert at Bergen Men's Prison, Norway, in March 2003
altONLY THE OCEAN CAN FORGIVE
2003 Haunted Valley Records HV6
Originally a fan club only release. Later paired with Greek Notebook and released by Cooking Vinyl in 2009 as 'The Haunted Year: Autumn'. COOKCD486

1 Little Brown Box 2 Woman In A Car 3 Autumn Song 4 Classic Northern Diversions 5 Extremely Violent Man 6 My Philosophy 7 Sting's Dead (Story Of The Sad Death Of The Well-Known Singer) 8 Paris Blues 9 Barefoot Days

1 - 3: studio recordings 4 - 6: live in Cologne 7 - 8: live in Frankfurt 9: live in Milford

altSONGS FOR LONELY AMERICANS (as Sir Vincent Lone)
2004 Return To Sender RTS46
Limited edition of 2.000 copies. Re-released in 2006 by Cooking Vinyl COOKCD365

1 Moscow Train 2 The War Crimes of Ariel Sharon 3 The Lights Below 4.Revenge of Memory 5.In Search of Stone 6 (I've Never Known) Peace On Earth 7 Courtship in Scottish Factories 8 Straight Outta Caledonia 9 Balamory Death Chant

Jackie Leven Performer Writer Producer, Kevin Foster Bass, David Wrench Drum Programming, Michael Cosgrave Trumpet, Keyboards

altJACKIE LEVEN SAID (with Ian Rankin)
2005 Cooking Vinyl COOKCD322

1-1 Opening Remarks / Story Part 1 1-2 Jim O Windygates (Live) 1-3 Story Part 2 1-4 My Spanish Dad 1-5 Story Part 3 1-6 Classic Northern Diversions 1-7 Story Part 4

2-1 Ian And Jackie Have A Humourous Conversation (From Live Show) 2-2 Exit Wound (From Live Show) 2-3 The Haunting Of John Rebus 2-4 Linseed Oil 2-5 Edinburgh Winter Blues 2-6 I Say A Little Prayer 2-7 Stranger On The Square 2-8 Friendship Between Men And Women 2-9 Honeymoon Hill 2-10 Irresistible Romance
altELEGY FOR JOHNNY CASH
2005 Cooking Vinyl COOKCD331

1 Blue Soul Dark Road 2 Museum Of Childhood 3 Elegy For Johnny Cash 4 Law Of Tide 5 All The Rage 6 No Honour In This Love 7 Vibration White Finger 8 King Of The Barley 9 And You'll Never Hear Surf Music Again 10 In Memory Of My Mother 11 Gladly Go Blind 12 Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students Of Zen

altOH WHAT A BLOW THAT PHANTOM DEALT ME
2006
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD395

1 Vox Humana 2 One Man One Guitar 3 Another Man's Rain 4 Kings Of Infinite Space 5 Childish Blues 6 I've Been Eveywhere 7 The Long Hard Field 8 The Silver In Her Crucifix (Homage To Judee Sill) 9 Here Come The Urban Ravens (Homage To Kevin Coyne) 10 The Skaters 11 Mellow My Madness
altWHEN THE BRIDEGROOM COMES (as Sir Vincent Lone)
2007
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD427

1 Graveyard Marimba 2 When The Bridegroom Comes 3 Feels Like Rain But Isn't 4 Coyne Of The Realm 5 Breakfast With Johnny Dowd 6 Ballad Of Geraldine 7 Blues Run The Game 8 A Little Voice In Space (Live) 9 Leonard
altCHIP PAN FIRE (as Jackie Balfour)
2007
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD432

1 Welcome To Glenrodent 2 First Day At Work 3 Chip Pan Fire 4 The Dirty Bookshop 5 Foul Play Not Suspected 6 The Train Driver Mystery 7 The Livingstone End 8 Studio Soundcheck 9 Sting's Dead - Jackie Leven 10 Stupid Local Boasts - Jackie Leven 11 Sex Tourist - Jackie Leven
altLOVERS AT THE GUN CLUB
2008
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD464

1 Lovers at the Gun Club 2 Fareham Confidential 3 The Innocent Railway 4 The Dent In The Fender And The Wheel Of Fate 5 My Old Home 6 Head Full Of War 7 I've Passed Away From Human Love 8 To Whom It May Concern 9 Oliver Blues 10 Woman In A Car 11 Heart In My Soul

altTROUBADOUR HEART (as Sir Vincent Lone)
2008
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD478

1 The Potato Pickers 2 I'm Gonna Drift A Little Further South 3 His Arms Are Full Of Broken Things 4 Rove On Wraith Of Raith 5 Holy Rachel Blues 6 Strolling Down The Highway 7 Florin/Tweed 8 It's All In The Game 9 An Honest Woman 10 Wake Me Up When It's Over
altBOÎTE DE PANDORE
2010

1 Away From It All With Jackie Leven 2 Cinammon Girl Bluesology 3 Ballad Of A Simple Heart 4 Deep Choking Wooded Death Fix (Beautiful Version) 5 Talking About Russian Poets Anna Akhmatova And Marina Tsvetayeva 6 Hand Is Pale With Holy Kisses 7 Loveers At The Gun Club (Plus Story Of Shannon Doyle) 8 Kings Of Infinate Space (Plus Story Of Basil And Ronnie) 9 Meet Me At The Top Of The World 10 Heartbeat
11 Last Summer

1,2: Gothic Road out-takes 3: From The Argyll Cycle 4: previously unreleased version 5,6: Performance in 2009 by Jackie Leven and Michael Cosgrave at Imram Festival 7,8: Live show in 2009 at The New Roscoe Irish Pub in Leeds, UK 9,10,11: From unreleased Doll By Doll album A Last Flick Of The Golden Wrench, featuring David Gilmour on guitar.

altGOTHIC ROAD
2010
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD519

1 Gothic Road 2 Last of the Badmen 3 John Paul Getty's Silver Cadillac 4 Cornelius Whalen 5 Song for Bass Guitar and Death 6 New Wreath 7 Absolutely Joan Crawford (With a Bit of Tilda Swinton On the Side) 8 My Lost Blonde 9 In a Shivering Blaze
10 Hotel Mini Bar 11 Shadow of a Man 12 Island

altWAYSIDE SHRINES AND THE CODE OF THE TRAVELLING MAN
2011 Cooking Vinyl COOKCD547

1 Swine Flu Fever Blues 2 To Live And Die In Levenland 3 Deep Purple Cloak 4 Beware Soul Brother 5 Spooky Berlin Hotel Song 6 Townes At The Borderline 7 The Kirkcaldy Book Of The Dead 8 Dagenham Dream 9 A Kiss On The Cheek 10 Backstage, Chelsea Club, Vienna

altONE LONG COLD MORNING
2011


1 The Snow That Thought It Was A Dream 2 Beware Soul Brother 3 The View From Shit Creek 4 One Long Cold Morning
5 Cocaine Lil And Morphine Sue 6 Honeymoon Hill 7 Torture Blues 8 My Philosophy 9 Another Man's Rain 10 I Say A Little Prayer 11 Ballad Of Anne Redmond

SINGLES / EP's

1994 - Call Mother A Lonely Field / Stranger On the Square
1994 - Call Mother A Lonely Field / Right To Remain Silent
1994 - Right To Remain Silent - The Mystery Supplement (see above)
1994 - Songs From the Argyll Cycle (Scotland only release) (see above)
1995 - I Say A Little Prayer / Honeymoon Hill / As We Sailed Into Skibbereen / The Bonnie Earl O'Moray
1995 - Some Ancient Misty Morning / Snow In Central Park / Fall
1995 - Leven's Lament / Marble City Bar / Exultation / Dolphin Man (see above)
1998 - Night Lillies / Empty In Soho Square / Alvis Green
1998 - Universal Blue / Desolation Blues / Torture Blues (Germany only release)
2000 - You've Lost That Loving Feeling / The Workingman's Love Song / I Saw My Love Walk Into Clouds / Paris Blues
2001 - My Spanish Dad / Friendship Between Men and Women / Exit Wound / Sex Tourist (story)
2002 - Irresistible Romance (radio edit) / Irresistible Romance (full version) / Wrapped Up In Blue
2005 - Blue Soul Dark Road / Elegy for Johnny Cash (radio edit) / Elegy for Johnny Cash (full version)
2005 - The Haunting of John Rebus / Linseed Oil / Edinburgh Winter Blues
2006 - Another Man's Rain (radio edit) / Childish Blues / Another Man's Rain (full version)
2008 - Fareham Confidential / Lovers At The Gun Club
2008 - Olivier Blues / Man Bleeds In Glasgow
2010 - Gothic Road (1 track radio edit single)
2011 - Swine Fever Blues

Thanks to Bob Astridge for help in compiling this list.



Compilations


altGREAT SONGS FROM ETERNAL BARS
2001
Cooking Vinyl COOK CD212

Disc 1 Fairytales For Hardmen
1 Boy Trapped In A Man 2 Desolation Blues 3 Extremely Violent Man 4 Old West African Song 5 Saint Judas 6 Poortoun 7 Fear Of Women / Unchained Melody 8 The Walled Coves Of Ravenscraig 9 Sad Polish Song 10 Sexual Danger 11 Jim O'Windygates 12 Mad As The Mist And Snow 13 Kirkconnell Flow 14 Listening To Crows Pray 15 Sir Patrick Spens 16 Sunflower

Disc 2 Forbidden Songs Of The Dying West
1 Young Male Suicide Blessed By Invisible Woman 2 Some Ancient Misty Morning 3 Working Alone / A Blessing 4 Leven's Lament 5 Marble City Bar 6 The Wanderer 7 Exultation 8 Men In Prison 9 Birds Leave Shadows 10 Stornoway Girl 11 Silver Roof 12 Lammermuir Hills 13 Come Back Early Or Never Come 14 By The Sign Of The Shattered Star 15 The Scene That Haunts My Memory 16 My Lord What A Morning

Disc 3 Control
1 Soft Lowland Tongue 2 Ruins 3 The Problem 4 Dune Voices 5 Rearona 6 I'm Always A Prinlaws Boy 7 Mansion Tension 8 Dog Star 9 Sleeping in Bracken

Disc 4 The Wanderer
1 Your Winter Days 2 Newfoundland Blues / Some Ancient Misty Morning / Working Alone / Sex Tourist 3 Heartsick Land 4 Stranger On The Square (etc.) 5 The Keys To The Forest 6 Poortoun (Losing My Voice) 7 I Can't Afford To Care Anymore (Doll By Doll) 8 A Blessing 9 When A Man Dies (with Jo Shaw) 10 Donna Karan (bonus track) 11 So My Soul Can Sing (bonus track) 12 Mary Jane's Dog (bonus track)

altTHE HAUNTED YEAR - SPRING
2009
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD484

Disc 1 Man Bleeds In Glasgow
1 Intro 2 Farm Boy 3 (Guardian Preview) 4 Glenarm / Burning The Box Of Beautiful Things 5 Looking For Love 6 Man Bleeds In Glasgow 7 (Golf On The Moon) 8 Night Lilies 9 Snow In Central Park 10 (Fear In Bermondsey) 11 Poortoun 12 Deep Choking Wooded Death Fix 13 (Erotic Football Results) 14 Call Mother A Lonely Field

Disc 2 Greetings From Milford
1 She Belongs To Me 2 Pale Blue Eyes 3 Walking In Argyll 4 Waiting For My Man 5 Listening To Crows Pray 6 Madam George 7 Who Is He And What Is He To You? 8 Paris Blues
9 Main Travelled Roads

altTHE HAUNTED YEAR - SUMMER
2009
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD485

Disc 1 Barefoot Days
1 Barefoot Days 2 Billy Ate My Pocket 3 Names Of Famous People / On The Train 4 Stopped By Woods On A Snowy Evening 5 Joni Mitchell / Matt Monroe And The Chip Packet / Dirty Underpants 6 Washing By Hand 7 Desolation Blues 8 Scots John And The Eyelash 9 Exit Wound

Disc 2 Deep In The Heart Of Nowhere
1 Rain Of Kathleen 2 Nottamun Town 3 Intro - Wobbly Grapefruit 4 Universal Blue 5 Shit In Your Garden 6 Regional Styles Of Complaint / New York Plugger 7 Marble City Bar 8 Bethesda Chip Shop 9 Single Father 10 Little Bird 11 The Working Man's Love Song 12 Paris Blues/Down By The River

altTHE HAUNTED YEAR - AUTUMN
2009
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD486

Disc 1 Greek Notebook
1-33 Island One - Island Thirty Three

Disc 2 Only The Ocean Can Forgive
1 Little Brown Box 2 Woman In A Car 3 Autumn Song 4 Classic Northern Diversions 5 Extremely Violent Man 6 My Philosophy 7 Sting's Dead (Story Of The Sad Death Of The Well-Known Singer) 8 Paris Blues 9 Barefoot Days

altTHE HAUNTED YEAR - WINTER
2009
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD483

Disc 1 Men In Prison
1 Men In Prison 2 Opening Remarks To Prisoners 3 Extremely Violent Man 4 Poortoun 5 Call Mother A Lonely Field 6 The Garden 7 Classic Northern Diversions 8 The Crazy Song

Disc 2 Munich Blues
1 Intro 2 Looking For Love 3 Plastic Irish Pubs In Europe 4 Stranger On The Square 5 Universal Blue 6 Jackie's Great Records 7 Single Father 8 I Saw My Love Walk Into The Clouds 9 When German People Call Me (On The Toilet) 10 Paris Blues 11 You've Lost That Loving Feeling

altHEROES CAN BE ANY SIZE - An Introduction to Jackie Leven
2012
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD559W

1 Night Lilies 2 Irresistible Romance 3 Heartsick Land 4 Another Man's Rain 5 Poortoun 6 Universal Blues 7 Friendship Between Men And Women 8 Men In Prison 9 The Haunting Of John Rebus 10 King Of The Barley 11 Tied-Up House 12 Olivier Blues 13 To Live And Die In Levenland 14 Working Alone / A Blessing

altSTRAIGHT OUTTA CALEDONIA
2021
School Daze RVSN0002

1 The Sexual Loneliness of Jesus Christ 2 Straight Outta Caledonia 3 Heartsick Land 4 Irresistible Romance 5 Live Or Die 6 Some Ancient Misty Morning 7 Snow in Central Park 8 Poortoun 9 Dagenham Dream 10 Single Father

altTHE WANDERER - A Tribute To Jackie Leven
2021
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD803

Disc 1 Gentle Man
1 Ralph McTell & Graham Preskett – Sick Harbour Lament 2 Eliza Carthy With David Delarre – The Garden 3 Jeb Loy Nichols – The Working Man's Love Song 4 Boo Hewerdine – A Little Voice In Space 5 Michael Weston King – The Final Reel 6 Kathryn Williams – The Crazy Song 7 Arksong – Honeymoon Hill 8 James Yorkston –Empty In Soho Square 9 Lou Dalgleish – One Long Cold Morning 10 Ian Rankin With Dean Owens – Edinburgh Winter Blues 11 Deborah Greenwood – Universal Blue

Disc 2 Hard Man
1 Andy White Feat. Stefan Hannigan – Standing In Another Man's Rain 2 Dog House Roses – Elegy for Johnny Cash 3 Johnny Dowd – Farm Boy 4 Tom Robinson – Classic Northern Diversions 5 Rab Noakes – Poortoun 6 Henry Priestman – Paris Blues 7 Jinder – Main Travelled Roads 8 Levi Henriksen & Babylon Badlands – Just Like Jackie Leven 9 Mike Cosgrave – The View From Shit Creek 10 Liam Carson With Knut Buen – I Weep 11 The Membranes – More Than Human


Live


Jackie Leven: known recordings. Info collated from various web resources.
* = recommended for new fans


Control - John St. Field (Spanish 'Bootleg' release - identical audio to CV reissue) A+
Remember - Doll By Doll 1CDR (Vinyl>HD>CDR) A
Brolley's, Richmond 29.8.80 - Doll By Doll 1CDR ACASS B-
Doll By Doll - Doll By Doll 1CDR (includes Renfrew Ferry TV b/cast) Vinyl>HD>CDR A
The Tomb Of Lazarus - Doll By Doll 1CDR (Gypsy Blood / Grand Passion highlights) A
Grand Passion - Doll By Doll 1CDR (Remastered by W.B.) A *
Dead On Your Side Of The River - Doll By Doll / J.L. 1 CDR (singles & B-sides) A
Greyhound, London 1983 - JL Band with Carol Wolf 1DVDR Pro-shot (also includes Artery BBC Scotland TV c1998)
Almost Ready To Fly - J.L. 1 CDR (Radio One 1.10.83 & 1994 + Radio Scotland 29.11.96) FM A+ *
Shivering Blaze - Shivering Blaze 1 CDR (12 Bar Club, 22.1.93) ADAT A-
Heartsick In Houndslow - J.L. + James Hallawell 2 CDR (2.3.95) ADAT A-/B+ *
Lemon Tree / Celtic Connections - J.L. 1 CDR (5.4.94 + 10.8.96) FM A+
Adelphi, Preston 14.5.96 - J.L. 1 CDR ACASS B- (inc Blues Run The Game)
Holding Hands At Lovers' Leap - J.L. 1 CDR (12 Bar Club 1995-1999 compilation) ADAT A- *
Dixie Club, Oslo 4.3.97 - J.L. 2 CDR ADAT A *
Two Interviews - J.L. and Deborah Greenwood 1 CDR (11.4.97 + 10.8.96) FM A+
The Garage, Bergen 29.8.97 - Doll By Doll 2CDR AUD A-
Hemel Hempstead 18.10.98 1CDR ADAT A-
Cologne,Tingeltangel 10.11.98 2 CDR (With Celtic Soulmen + DG) ADAT A *
Paddy's Irish Bar, Vienna 15.1.99 2 CDR (some distortion on recording) ADAT B+
Hemel Hempstead 1.5.99 1 CDR ADAT A
Bremen 21.5.99 2 CDR A (lovely Gylen Gylen) *
Zeche Carl, Essen 25.5.99 1 CDR (support act to Oysterband) ADAT A-
The Fez, New York City 15.11.99 1 CDR ADAT A
Zakk, Dusseldorf 15.3.00 2 CDR AMD
Club Trier, Walderdorf 19.3.00 2 CDR AMD A *
HMV, Munster 24.3.00 J.L./Ametslsfoort,Holland 3.3.01 EIS 1 CDR
(2 short appearances on I CDR) ADAT A-
The Spitz, London 13.4.00 - J.L. 1 CDR ADAT A-
Lemon Tree, Aberdeen 19.5.00 - J.L.1 CDR ADAT? A-
Club Lek, Amsterdam 19.5.00 (??) 1 CDR SBD? (With David Thomas)
Milford Highlights - J.L. & Stornaway Girls 1 CDR (2.12.00) ADAT A/A-
Solingen, 4.3.01 - EIS show 2CDR A-
Lowlands Of Winchester - J.L. 2 CDR (6.4.01) MD A-
12 Bar Club, 29.5.01 - J.L. 2 CDR ADAT A-
Borderline, London 1.8.01 - J.L. 2 CDR ADAT A-
Borders Bookshop, London 5.10.01 - J.L. 1 CDR AMD A-
Krefeld, 21.10.01 - J.L. & Stefan 2 CDR MD A *
Frankfurt, 23.10.01 - J.L. 2 CDR AMD A
Quasimodo's, Berlin 27.10.01 - J.L. 2 CDR AMD A
Deep And Crisp And Leven - J.L. 1 CDR (Leven List CDR Xmas 2001) DFM A
The Musician, Leicester 7.11.01 - J.L. & Stornaway Girls 2 CDR MD A-
Milford 8.12.01 - J.L. & Stornaway Girls 2 CDR MD A-
Borderline, London 13.12.01 - J.L. 1 CDR ADAT A-
Swindon 2.3.02 - J.L. 2 CDR AMD A
Ceol Castle, Birmingham 7.3.02 - J.L. 2 CDR AMD A-
The Horn, Watford 25.5.02 - J.L. 2 CDR ADAT B+ (audience from hell)
12 Bar Club, 28.5.02 - J.L. 2 CDR ADAT A
Broadstairs Folk Festival, 10.8.02 - J.L 2 CDR ADAT A- (Also 2 DVDR set)
The Musician, Leicester 29.9.02 1 CDR AMD A *
Astor Theatre, Deal 17.10.02 2 CDR ADAT A
Marrs Bar, Worcester 20.10.02 - J.L. 2 CDR AMD A
Milford 7.12.02 J.L. + J.Shaw & K. Hewick 2CDR A (Also 2 DVDR set)
The Greys, Brighton 8.12.02 - J.L. 2 CDR ADAT A (Duet w D. Thomas on one song) *
BBC Radio Scotland 23.1.03 - J.L. 1 CDR DFM A-
The Tron, Glasgow 25.1.03 - J.L. 2 CDR AMD A-/B+
Chimney Boy, Faversham 29.1.03 - J.L. 2 CDR ADAT A
Ceol Castle, Birmingham 11.2.03 - J.L. 2 CDR AMD A-
Borderline, London 17.2.03 - J.L. & Sex Trio 2CDR ADAT A
Hamburg 20.2.03 - J.L. and Stefan H. 1CDR AMD A
Berlin 21.2.03 - JL. and Stefan H. 1CDR FM A+ (six songs)
Dresden 22.2.03 - J.L. and Stefan H. 1CDR AMD A
Vienna 25,2.03 - J.L. 1 CDR A
Stavanger 07.03.03 - J.L. 2CDR Real Audio sbd A
Essen 26.3.03 - JL 2CDR AMD A
Kiel 28.3.03 - JL 2CDR AMD A
Hannover 30.3.03 - J.L. & M.C. 2DVDR Excellent sound and picture quality
Bielefield 31.3.03 - JL 3CDR AMD A (1 cd is M.Weston King)
Guilfest 5.7.03 1CDR AMD? A-
Larmertree Festival 20.7.03 - JL 1CDR AMD? A-
Canterbury Fayre 23.8.03 - JL 1CDR ADAT A-
Loughborough 26.9.03 - J.L. 2CDR AMD B+/A-
Burnley 9.10.03 - J.L. 2CDR AMD A
Mr Kyps, Poole 10.12.03 2CDR ADAT A
Milford 13.12.03 2CDR AMD A (Remastered by BA)
12 Bar Club 15.12.03 2CDR ADAT A
Rockingham Arms, Wentworth 30.01.04 - J.L. 2 CDR AMD A-
Marrs Bar, Worcester 22.02.04 - JL 2 CDR AMD A-
The Greys, Brighton 14.03.04 - UbuDoll 2 CDR ADAT A
Borderline, London 21.3.04 - Ubudoll 2 CDR ADAT A- (2 versions, equally good)
Kunst, Hamburg 25.3.04 - JL/MC 2CDR SBD A
Harmonie, Bonn 26.3.04 - JL Band DVDR TV 7 song version pro-shot *
Bremen 29.3.04 - JL/MC 1CDR FM A+
Bremen 29.3.04 2CDR all PreFM SBD
Warwick Arts Centre 25.4.04 - JL 1CDR AMD A-
Beverungen 29.5.04 - JL 1CDR Sbd>MD A
Glastonbury Festival 26.6.04 - Decent Men 1CDR AMD A
Southsea Pier 28.8.04 - JL/DG 1CDR SBD A+ *
Half Moon, Putney 13.10.04 - JL 1CDR ADAT B-
Mr Kyps, Poole 14.10.04 - JL/DG 1CDR SBD A/A- Edited version - minor sound problem
Mr Kyps, Poole 14.10.04 - JL/DG 2CDR SBD A Complete version *
Summer Sundae, Leicester 14.8.05 - JL 1CDR AMD A/A-
Haarlem 6.11.05 SBD Webcast
Maudslay, Coventry 12.11.05 - JL 2CDR SBD>MD A *
Cornish Pub, Solingen 16.11.05 - JL 2CDR SBD>MD A
Frankfurt 18.11.05 - JL 2CDR SBD>MD A
Stuttgart 22.11.05 - JL 2CDR SBD>MD A
Berlin 24.11.05 - JL 2CDR FM
Ceol Castle, Birmingham 1.2.06 - JL 2CDR SBD>MD A
New Roscoe, Leeds 6.2.06 - JL 2CDR AUD>MD B+/A-
Chelsea Bar, Vienna 3.4.06 - JL/MC 2CDR AUD A-
Striese, Augsburg 4.4.06 - JL/MC 2CDR SBD A
Nurnberg 5.4.06 - JL/MC 2CDR SBD A
Cornish Pub, Solingen 20.6.06 - JL/MC 2CDR SBD A
Essen 21.6.06 - JL/MC 2CDR SBD A
Dortmund 10.9.06 AUD FLAC
Frankfurt 11.9.06 SBD FLAC
Offenburg 12.9.06 JL 2CDR SBD? A
Musician, Leicester 5.12.06 JL 2CDR AUD A- (RT)
New Roscoe, Leeds 6.12.06 1CDR AUD MD A-
Johhnie Walker show, BBC Radio 2 3.2.07 1CDR FM A
King Tut's, Glasgow 24.3.07 2CDR AUD A
Manchester University, 1.4.07 2CDR AUD A
Troubadour, London 5.4.07 2CDR AUD A- (BA)
Stuttgart 4.5.07 2CDR AUD A-
BBC Radio 2 Bob Harris show 23.6.07 1CDR FM A
King Tut's, Glasgow 7.12.07 2CDR AUD A
Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh 26.3.08 2CDR AUD A
Hartberg 14.9.08 2CDR SBD A+
Harmonie, Bonn 24.9.08 2CDR SBD A+
Stuttgart 2.2.09 2CDR AUD A-
Essen 19.2.09 2CDR SBD
Bergen 30.4.10 2CDR AUD
Solingen 11.5.11 2CDR SBD
Vienna 17 May 2010 2CDR SBD
Essen 23.9.10 2CDR SBD
Stuttgart 24.9.10 2CDR SBD