Road Map? (RIP, Jackie Leven)

"The road from intensity to greatness passes through sacrifice."

--Rudolf Krassner,
quoted in the liner notes
to Jackie Leven's Forbidden Songs of the Dying West.

Here's a bit of Jackie Leven's intensity for you:
click this LINK for "Classic Northern Diversions"--
arterial intensity from the first chord, the first word . . . .

RIP, Jackie Leven.
61 years wasn't enough.
We want more . . . .
Thank you for what you've given.

Thank you to Ian Rankin, Scottish novelist and good guy, for talking about Jackie Leven, the man and his music and the friendship between you, at Book Passage in Corte Madera, Marin County, CA.