Tag Archives: John Jenkins

John Jenkins, If You Can’t Forgive You Can’t Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

To apologise is hard, to forgive is challenging, and yet we are urged from early in life to see forgiveness as a way of promoting love for one’s self, to be able to move on from the perceived sleight, the moment of indiscretion, of the falling foul to all that makes us human; yet forgiving seems to be the hardest emotion to conquer, it would seem for many the easier option is make life intolerable for someone, to put them down, to find ways in which to destroy another human being just because they made a mistake.

John Jenkins, If You Can’t Forgive You Can’t Love. Album Review. full post

(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, Kathleen. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

What speaks to our minds, also makes the soul dance and long constantly for the memory of that sound, to play it repeatedly, to change it, to alter it maybe, but in all just to honour it through your own personal way of love and respect.

The song or track which are covered by another artist can be seen in two ways, one as a marketing tool installed by the studio and intended to be a lead single for the masses to be divided over, or as act of selfless purity, of honouring what made us believe in the first place and turned us on to the gift of art in which we practise.

John Jenkins, Kathleen. Single Review. full post

(362 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, Desert Hearts. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The heart at times may be as barren and seemingly lifeless as the Mojave, but the mind is forever on the verge of flourishing, of adapting, changing its opinion and the way it observes the world; it is what makes a change of mind and vision so exhilarating to witness, and which kick starts the heart into its own adaption, but never losing the fascination that comes with the sultry and emotionally passionate flowering of all the Marigolds and Sunflowers as visions of the Desert Hearts.

John Jenkins, Desert Hearts. Single Review. full post

(365 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, Growing Old… Songs From My Front Porch. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It will be argued that in uncertain times we are never more acutely aware of the passing of the hours and days as we find ourselves fighting against the clock, against nature and the system which has somehow fostered the lie that we must be constantly be on the move, not just be productive, but to somehow have a schedule which is thirty hours a day long and ten days a week in breadth. It is the insanity of speculation which stops many of from dreaming about a future of reflection, looking back and understanding that growing old gives you the opportunity to tell all your stories in comfort and with a view.

John Jenkins, Growing Old… Songs From My Front Porch. Album Review. full post

(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, Jackson’s Farm. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The songs we sing to ourselves when we find ourselves contemplating life, its boundless mystery, its significant wonder, and the times when we feel that the melancholic joy threatens to engulf us, those are the moments in which we look upon at whatever time they appear as the guiding lights, the soliloquys from the comfort of the idyll of the front porch.

It is from the front porch that John Jenkins has seen the orange light that swings as the breeze hits the Wirral coast, that catches the waves upon the River Mersey as sends the flurry and the strength into the sound of every artist that lives either side of the great unitor.

John Jenkins, Jackson’s Farm. Single Review. full post

(352 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, I’m Almost Over You. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are the degrees of love in which a person rises high, in which they become the obsession, the eternal Muse, then there are the fallen, the ones we look upon with disdain, with displeasure, with the face of being damned firmly etched upon our faces; between these two states of emotion we lay content, our determination of appreciation and the fallow slide of neglect a true reflection of our feelings.

John Jenkins, I’m Almost Over You. Single Review. full post

(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, Too Much Drinking On A Sunday. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Often in life the artist only allows you to see what you need to see, you witness the birth, the adolescence, the moments in between, the subtle changes in appreciation as they find their feet, as they delve into the corners of their mind in search of new ways to make the audience laugh, love, weep and feel the pain and joy of existence.

John Jenkins, Too Much Drinking On A Sunday. E.P. Review. full post

(489 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, A New York Romance. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A romance is something to be treasured, especially one that is hard fought for, arguably more so than the one that was easy, that fell into place and then as the saying goes, they lived happily ever after. It is better to hard won than to be won over with an empty promise, a meaningless gesture; it is the fight that shows others that it was all worth it in the end.

John Jenkins, A New York Romance. Album Review. full post

(460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, Window Shopping In Nashville. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Epics come and epics go, some will stand the test of time and others fall into the trap of becoming side-lined, browning with age, bleached in part by the weather streaming against the frames and forgotten, a dusty reminder of what they once stood for in the pantheon of music.

John Jenkins, Window Shopping In Nashville. Album Review. full post

(485 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, Postcards From Mabelthorpe. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

For many the seaside was not just a place of fun, of rest from the daily grind and the knowledge that for a week or two there would be something other than the feeling of oppression in the factory air, it was a home, it was the place where you could be yourself and see the world with fresh eyes and a clean soul. For the British before the advent of package holidays and the young spending their money on the excitement of going abroad, this was also the time when the family got together, where perhaps the differences between the generations were slowly eroded away and in between bouts of boredom, something magical may happen, something that always ended with the words Wish You Were Here on the back of a set of Postcards from Mabelthorpe.

John Jenkins, Postcards From Mabelthorpe. Single Review. full post

(510 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)