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Thursday 21 March 2013

Leven Ballantrae

From the ridiculous to the sublime.

On the way home from holiday we stopped off in Ballantrae on the A77 Stranraer to Glasgow road for a 5 minute potter in the local Thrift shop.

There were loads of CDs dumped in big piles as opposed to any neat order.99.9% was the usual tosh but I was determined not to leave without purchasing.
It wasn't easy but eventually I parted with 50p for what I thought was a Jackie Leven CD Single.
He was an interesting character and I recall listening to an excellent interview with him on Radio Scotland  before he passed on.

On closure inspection (once we had fought off the sleet and returned to the car ) it turns out it was The Right to Remain Silent a 7 track EP from 1994 on Cooking Vinyl

Back home I checked it on Amazon to find it is going for 88 quid new and 35 quid second hand!
It was a bit of an Antique Roadshow moment and "No of course not. I'm not going to sell it!"

Jackie Leven- Ballad of a Simple Heart

2 comments:

  1. Excellent. That, of course, would be illegal.

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  2. Indeed
    There is an excellent quote to that effect in "Lost in Music" by Giles Smith which I am reading at the moment and which will feature shortly in a subsequent post

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