{"id":10306,"date":"2011-11-16T21:11:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T02:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10306"},"modified":"2011-11-17T06:34:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T11:34:14","slug":"jackie-leven-dead-at-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/jackie-leven-dead-at-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Leven Dead at 61"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SFegekcyy-M?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I had never heard of <strong>Jackie Leven<\/strong>, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/8894950\/Jackie-Leven.html\" target=\"_blank\">died of cancer today at 61<\/a>,\u00a0let alone heard a lick of his music until a few years ago, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/kinged-shares-the-gift-of-music\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>KingEd<\/strong> turned me onto <em>Control<\/em><\/a>, an obscure 1975 album he released under the name <strong>John St. Field<\/strong>.\u00a0KingEd and I listened to it all the way through, leaning forward and grinning at all the right licks. The next day I downloaded the whole thing off eMusic.\u00a0I can&#8217;t speak for Ed, but I never downloaded another song by the guy. That one album was surprise enough, straddling very English hippy-dippy folk and pub rock. It&#8217;s nice to find some oddball album and simply enjoy its oddball pleasures.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to contact Leven a couple of years ago for a chat with the Hall, but I never heard back from him. That was cool. Who was I, a guy who never bought more than a single record by an artist he&#8217;d never heard before, wanting to drag him into our scene?\u00a0Like so many who have and who will die, he led an interesting life with unexpected twists and turns. There&#8217;s still music to be explored, rock knowledge to be explored. For instance, I didn&#8217;t know until reading his obit that he did a duet on &#8220;You&#8217;ve Lost That Loving Feeling&#8221; with my man <strong>David Thomas<\/strong>. I also learned, by reading his obit, that we shared the same birthday. See how this stuff can all make a little sense? I&#8217;m glad I happened across Jackie Leven and that one album&#8217;s worth of songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I had never heard of Jackie Leven, who died of cancer today at 61,\u00a0let alone heard a lick of his music until a few years ago, when KingEd turned me onto Control, an obscure 1975 album he released under the name John St. Field.\u00a0KingEd and I listened to it all the way through, leaning <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/jackie-leven-dead-at-61\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,16],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}