Jackie Leven, Defending Ancient Springs - 55m 57s

Tracks & Durations

1. You´ve Lost that Loving Feeling	4:55
2. Single Father	5:33
3. Paris Blues	6:23
4. Defending Ancient Springs	7:41
5. The Working Man´s Love Song	4:41
6. I Saw my Love Walk into Clouds	4:13
7. Hand is Pale with Holy Kisses	6:24
8. Your Winter Days	3:57
9. The Keys to the Forest	5:32
10. Morbid Sky	6:31

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Review

Jackie Leven's production and songwriting ambitions have been on a tear since the release of The Mystery of Love Is Greater Than the Mystery of Death, and have grown wilder with every release. Poetic experimentalism, sonic trickery, and musical juxtapositions that would never pan out in anybody else's work seem to flow like whiskey down a drunk's throat in his. On Defending Ancient Springs, he's taken his greatest chance. Formerly it was him covering "I Say a Little Prayer," a song firmly identified with two female singers (Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin), and even then he placed it at the end of the album. But here, he has taken an American classic and attempted a straight reading of it with the most unlikely of partners. The song is the Righteous Brothers' classic "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," which was also done justice by Hall and Oates (who were also from Philly). But Leven decides to cover it18th Collection of Songs of Longing, Sex and Scotland. 10 Complex, Yet Accessible Songs Sung in a Crystal-clear Defiantly Human Voice. An Astounding Album.

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