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JACKIE LEVEN

Straight Outta Caledonia… The Songs Of Jackie Leven NIGHT SCHOOL/SCHOOL DAZE

9/10

Solo career-spanning set, long needed, by one of Scotland’s finest songwriters

REVELATIONS come from the most unexpected corners. For Michael Kasparis, who runs Glasgow’s Night School imprint, the keys to the kingdom of late, of her first encounter with Leven’s music. “The best song ever written.” That song, “The Sexual Loneliness Of Jesus Christ”, long considered one of Leven’s greatest, leads . The experience of hearing the song for the first time was so profound for Kasparis that he almost crashed his car.

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