JACKIE LEVEN & MICHAEL COSGRAVE- Swine Flu Fever Blues

'SWINE FLU FEVER BLUES' is from Jackie Leven & Michael Cosgrave s' new album 'Wayside Shrines and the Code of the Travelling Man.'(Cooking Vinyl 2011).
The poem 'Nothing Gold can Stay' by Robert Frost (1923) might run alongside this beautiful song.....it may be a story about how the youthful flecks of colour and panic jump out onto that sturdy old green path of suffering to mean new things....
Heres the poem:

'Nothing Gold can Stay' by Robert Frost (1923)

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

JACKIE LEVEN ADDS - This is a Hardy poem that I did not know before, but it has already flowed naturally into my own living landscape, near where the River Leven flows. All my respect goes to the artist Tina Lang here, and the dark confiding space she finds in both the poem and the song.

For information about 'Wayside Shrines and the Code of the Travelling Man' and Jackies recent official bootleg album 'One Long Cold morning'
Checkout ....
http://www.jackieleven.co.uk/
...thats.... www.jackieleven.co.uk - if you want to know more!

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[TheClifford1958]

come on everybody you wont find a more heartfelt album this year or any year give these boys some credit  we never hear the retakes or lets roll again from the making of an album the sweat and tears have dried on the studio floor by the time we take off the shiny wrapper to share this beauty thank you jackie and michael we realy appreciate all your hard work over the years

[conluz22]

@TheClifford1958

Thanks so much for that kind & warming comment!

[AlastairFawn]

Absolutely fucking brilliant.RIP Jackie

[chiikimonki]

see ya jimmy,watch out fer the big man!

[ajlpode]

Great song but whose voices does it remind me of?

[Inhabitantofthelake]

Heartbreakingly, staggeringly beautiful. If only more people could listen and truly appreciate this. Thank you for uploading.

[nickpick55]

RIP Jackie Leven.

[pompousprat]

Beyond beautiful.

[TheClifford1958]

iv collected memories like sea shells from a shore all those golden moments are locked up in my draw but if you ask which ones the fondest i just cry a little more

[legatotechniques]

hell yeah