THE great Scottish folk-blues singer and songwriter Jackie Leven passed away on Monday. He had been suffering from cancer.

He once said: “There are spiritual story tellers and there are soulful story tellers. I hope to be a soulful story teller. I see the two kinds as two different directions. Spiritual is ascending. Sky, God and all that. I hope my story telling is going down into the earth, is wetter, has more moisture.”

Nobody defined that distinction better than Jackie, who played two of The Shed’s most memorable shows at Brawby Village Hall. God bless and good night.