{"title":"Leonard Cohen","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the most fascinating and enigmatic -- if not the most successful -- singer\/songwriters of the late '60s, Leonard Cohen retained an audience across six decades of music-making, interrupted by various digressions into personal and creative exploration, all of which have only added to the mystique surrounding him. Second only to Bob Dylan (and perhaps Paul Simon), he commanded the attention of critics and younger musicians more firmly than any other musical figure from the '60s who continued to work in the 21st century, which is all the more remarkable an achievement for someone who didn't even aspire to a musical career until he was in his thirties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCohen was born in 1934, a year before Elvis Presley, and his background -- personal, social, and intellectual -- couldn't have been more different from those of the rock or folk stars of any generation. Though he knew some country music and played it a bit as a boy, he didn't start performing on even a semi-regular basis, much less recording, until after he had already written several books -- and as an established novelist and poet, his literary accomplishments far exceeded those of Bob Dylan or most anyone else who one cares to mention in music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was born Leonard Norman Cohen into a middle-class Jewish family in the Montreal suburb of Westmount. His father, a clothing merchant (who also held a degree in engineering), died in 1943, when Cohen was nine years old. It was his mother who encouraged Cohen as a writer, especially of poetry, during his childhood. This fit in with the progressive intellectual environment in which he was raised, which allowed him free inquiry into a vast range of pursuits. His relationship to music was more tentative. He took up the guitar at age 13, initially as a way to impress a girl, but was good enough to play country \u0026amp; western songs at local cafes, and he subsequently formed a group called the Buckskin Boys. At 17, he enrolled in McGill University as an English major. By this time, he was writing poetry in earnest and became part of the university's tiny underground \"bohemian\" community. Cohen only earned average grades, but was good enough as a writer to earn the McNaughton Prize in creative writing by the time he graduated in 1955. A year later, the ink barely dry on his degree, he published his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956), which got great reviews but didn't sell especially well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was already beyond the age that rock \u0026amp; roll was aimed at. Bob Dylan, by contrast, was still Robert Zimmerman, still in his teens, and young enough to become a devotee of Buddy Holly when the latter emerged. In 1961, Cohen published his second book of poetry, The Spice Box of Earth, which became an international success critically and commercially, and established Cohen as a major new literary figure. Meanwhile, he tried to join the family business and spent some time at Columbia University in New York, writing all the time. Between the modest royalties from sales of his second book, literary grants from the Canadian government, and a family legacy, he was able to live comfortably and travel around the world, partaking of much of what it had to offer -- including some use of LSD when it was still legal -- and ultimately settling for an extended period in Greece, on the isle of Hydra in the Aegean Sea. He continued to publish, issuing a pair of novels, The Favorite Game (1963) and Beautiful Losers (1966), with a pair of poetry collections, Flowers for Hitler (1964) and Parasites of Heaven (1966). The Favorite Game was a very personal work about his early life in Montreal, but it was Beautiful Losers that proved another breakthrough, earning the kind of reviews that authors dare not even hope for. (Cohen found himself compared to James Joyce in the pages of The Boston Globe, and across the years, the book has enjoyed sales totaling well into six figures.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was around this time that he also started writing music again, songs being a natural extension of his poetry. His relative isolation on Hydra, coupled with his highly mobile lifestyle when he left the island, his own natural iconoclastic nature, and the fact that he'd avoided being overwhelmed (or even touched too seriously) by the currents running through popular music since the '40s, combined to give Cohen a unique voice as a composer. Though he did settle in Nashville for a short time in the mid-'60s, he didn't write quite like anyone else in the country music mecca or anywhere else. This might have been an impediment, but for the intervention of Judy Collins, a folksinger who had just moved to the front rank of that field. Collins had a voice just special enough to move her beyond the relatively emaciated ranks of remaining popular folk performers after Dylan shifted to electric music; she was still getting heard, and not just by the purists left behind in Dylan's wake. She added Cohen's \"Suzanne\" to her repertoire and put it on her album In My Life, a record that was controversial enough in folk circles (because of her cover of the Beatles song that gave the LP its title) to pull in a lot of listeners and get a wide airing. The LP's \"Suzanne\" received a considerable amount of radio airplay, and Cohen was also represented on the album by \"Dress Rehearsal Rag.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was Collins who persuaded Cohen to return to performing for the first time since his teens. He made his debut during the summer of 1967 at the Newport Folk Festival, followed by a pair of sold-out concerts in New York City and an appearance singing his songs and reciting his poems on the CBS network television show Camera Three, in a show entitled \"Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen.\" It was around the same time that actor\/singer Noel Harrison brought \"Suzanne\" onto the pop charts with a recording of his own. One of those who saw Cohen perform at Newport was John Hammond, Sr., the legendary producer whose career went back to the '30s and the likes of Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, and Count Basie, and extended up through Bob Dylan and, ultimately, to Bruce Springsteen. Hammond got Cohen signed to Columbia Records and he created The Songs of Leonard Cohen, which was released just before Christmas of 1967. Producer John Simon was able to find a restrained yet appealing approach to recording Cohen's voice, which might have been described as an appealingly sensitive near-monotone; yet that voice was perfectly suited to the material at hand, all of which, written in a very personal language, seemed drenched in downbeat images and a spirit of discovery as a path to unsettling revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite its spare production and melancholy subject matter -- or, very possibly because of it -- the album was an immediate hit by the standards of the folk music world and the budding singer\/songwriter community. In an era in which millions of listeners hung on the next albums of Bob Dylan and Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel -- whose own latest album had ended with a minor-key rendition of \"Silent Night\" set against a radio news account of the death of Lenny Bruce -- Cohen's music quickly found a small but dedicated following. College students by the thousands bought it; in its second year of release, the record sold over 100,000 copies. The Songs of Leonard Cohen was as close as Cohen ever got to mass audience success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmid all of this sudden musical activity, he hardly neglected his other writing -- in 1968, he released a new volume, Selected Poems: 1956-1968, which included both old and newly published work, and earned him the Governor General's Award, Canada's highest literary honor, which he proceeded to decline. By this time, he was actually almost more a part of the rock scene, residing for a time in New York's Chelsea Hotel, where his neighbors included Janis Joplin and other performing luminaries, some of whom influenced his songs very directly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis next album, Songs from a Room (1969), was characterized by an even greater spirit of melancholy -- even the relatively spirited \"A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes\" was steeped in such depressing sensibilities, and the one song not written by Cohen, \"The Partisan,\" was a grim narrative about the reasons for and consequences of resistance to tyranny that included lines like \"She died without a whisper\" and included images of wind blowing past graves. Joan Baez subsequently recorded the song, and in her hands it was a bit more upbeat and inspiring to the listener; Cohen's rendition made it much more difficult to get past the costs presented by the singer's persona. On the other hand, \"Seems So Long Ago, Nancy,\" although as downbeat as anything else here, did present Cohen in his most expressive and commercial voice, a nasal but affecting and finely nuanced performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn all, however, Songs from a Room was less well-received commercially and critically. Bob Johnston's restrained, almost minimalist production made it less overtly appealing than the subtly commercial trappings of his debut, though the album did have a pair of tracks, \"Bird on the Wire\" and \"The Story of Isaac,\" that became standards rivaling \"Suzanne.\" \"The Story of Isaac,\" a musical parable woven around biblical imagery about Vietnam, was one of the most savage and piercing songs to come out of the antiwar movement, and showed a level of sophistication in its music and lyrics that put it in a whole separate realm of composition; it received an even better airing on the Live Songs album, in a performance recorded in Berlin during 1972.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCohen may not have been a widely popular performer or recording artist, but his unique voice and sound, and the power of his writing and its influence, helped him gain entry to the front rank of rock performers, an odd status for the then 35-year-old author\/composer. He appeared at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival in England, a post-Woodstock gathering of stars and superstars, including late appearances by such soon-to-die-or-disband legends as Jimi Hendrix and the Doors. Looking nearly as awkward as his fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell, Cohen strummed his acoustic guitar backed by a pair of female singers in front of an audience of 600,000 (\"It's a large nation, but still weak\"), comprising equal portions of fans, freaks, and belligerent gatecrashers, but the mere fact that he was there -- sandwiched somewhere between Miles Davis and Emerson, Lake \u0026amp; Palmer -- was a clear statement of the status (if not the popular success) he'd achieved. (Cohen's performance of \"Suzanne\" was one of the highlights of Murray Lerner's long-delayed 1996 documentary Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival, and his full set was reissued in 2009, both on audio and video formats.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlready, he had carved out a unique place for himself in music, as much author as performer and recording artist, letting his songs develop and evolve across years -- his distinctly non-commercial voice became part of his appeal to the audience he found, giving him a unique corner of the music audience comprising listeners descended from the same people who had embraced Bob Dylan's early work before he'd become a mass-media phenomenon in 1964. In a sense, Cohen embodied a phenomenon vaguely similar to what Dylan enjoyed before his early-'70s tour with the Band -- people bought his albums by the tens and, occasionally, hundreds of thousands, but seemed to hear him in uniquely personal terms. He earned his audience seemingly one listener at a time, by word of mouth more than by the radio, which, in any case (especially on the AM dial), was mostly friendly to covers of Cohen's songs by other artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCohen's third album, Songs of Love and Hate (1971), was one of his most powerful works, brimming with piercing lyrics and music as poignantly affecting as it was minimalist in its approach -- arranger Paul Buckmaster's work on strings was peculiarly muted, and the children's chorus that showed up on \"Last Year's Man\" was spare in its presence. Balancing them was Cohen's most effective vocalizing to date, brilliantly expressive around such acclaimed songs as \"Joan of Arc,\" \"Dress Rehearsal Rag\" (which had been recorded by Judy Collins five years before), and \"Famous Blue Raincoat.\" The bleakness of the tone and subject matter ensured that he would never become a \"pop\" performer; even the beat-driven \"Diamonds in the Mine\" -- catchy children's chorus accompaniment and all, with a twangy electric guitar accompaniment to boot -- was as dark and venomous a song as Columbia Records put out in 1971. And the most compelling moments -- among an embarrassment of riches -- came on lyrics like \"Now the flames they followed Joan of Arc\/As she came riding through the dark\/No moon to keep her armor bright\/No man to get her through this night....\" Songs of Love and Hate, coupled with the earlier hit versions of \"Suzanne,\" etc., earned Cohen a large international cult following. He also found himself in demand in the world of commercial filmmaking, as director Robert Altman used his music in his 1971 feature film McCabe and Mrs. Miller, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, a revisionist period film set at the turn of the 19th century that was savaged by the critics (and, by some accounts, sabotaged by its own studio) but went on to become one of the director's best-loved movies. The following year, he also published a new poetry collection, The Energy of Slaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs was his wont, Cohen spent years between albums, and in 1973 he seemed to take stock of himself as a performer by issuing Leonard Cohen: Live Songs. Not a conventional live album, it was a compendium of performances from various venues across several years and focused on highlights of his output from 1969 onward. It showcased his writing as much as his performing, but also gave a good account of his appeal to his most serious fans -- those still uncertain of where they stood in relation to his music who could get past the epic-length \"Please Don't Pass Me By\" knew for certain they were ready to \"join\" the inner circle of his legion of devotees after that, while others who only appreciated \"Bird on the Wire\" or \"The Story of Isaac\" could stay comfortably in an outer ring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, in 1973, his music became the basis for a theatrical production called Sisters of Mercy, conceived by Gene Lesser and loosely based on Cohen's life, or at least a fantasy version of his life. A three-year lag ensued between Songs of Love and Hate and Cohen's next album, and most critics and fans just assumed he'd hit a dry spell, with the live album covering the gap. He was busy performing, however, in the United States and Europe in 1971 and 1972, and extended his appearances into Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. It was during this period that he also began working with pianist and arranger John Lissauer, whom he engaged as producer of his next album, New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974). That album seemed to justify his fans' continued faith in his work, presenting Cohen in a more lavish musical environment. He proved capable of holding his own in a pop environment, even if the songs were mostly still depressing and bleak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe following year, Columbia Records released The Best of Leonard Cohen, featuring a dozen of his best-known songs -- principally hits in the hands of other performers -- from his previous four LPs (though it left out \"Dress Rehearsal Rag\"). It was also during the mid-'70s that Cohen first crossed paths professionally with Jennifer Warnes, appearing on the same bill with the singer at numerous shows, which would lead to a series of key collaborations in the ensuing decade. By this time, he was a somewhat less mysterious persona, having toured extensively and gotten considerable exposure -- among many other attributes, Cohen became known for his uncanny attractiveness to women, which seemed to go hand in glove with the romantic subjects of most of his songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1977, Cohen reappeared with the ironically titled Death of a Ladies' Man, the most controversial album of his career, produced by Phil Spector. The notion of pairing Spector -- known variously as a Svengali-like presence to his female singers and artists and the most unrepentant (and often justified) over-producer in the field of pop music -- with Cohen must have seemed like a good one to someone at some point, but apparently Cohen himself had misgivings about many of the resulting tracks that Spector never addressed, having mixed the record completely on his own. The resulting LP suffered from the worst attributes of Cohen's and Spector's work, overly dense and self-consciously imposing in its sound, and virtually bathing the listener in Cohen's depressive persona, but showing his limited vocal abilities to disadvantage, owing to Spector's use of \"scratch\" (i.e. guide) vocals and his unwillingness to permit the artist to redo some of his weaker moments on those takes. For the first (and only) time in Cohen's career, his near-monotone delivery of this period wasn't a positive attribute. Cohen's unhappiness with the album was widely known among fans, who mostly bought it with that caveat in mind, so it didn't harm his reputation. A year after its release, Cohen also published a new literary collection using the slightly different title Death of a Lady's Man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCohen's next album, Recent Songs (1979), returned him to the spare settings of his early-'70s work and showed his singing to some of its best advantage. Working with veteran producer Henry Lewy (best known for his work with Joni Mitchell), the album showed Cohen's singing as attractive and expressive in its quiet way, and songs such as \"The Guests\" seeming downright pretty. He still wrote about life and love, and especially relationships, in stark terms, but he seemed to be moving into a pop mode on numbers such as \"Humbled in Love.\" Frank Sinatra never needed to look over his shoulder at Cohen (at least, as a singer), but he did seem to be trying for a slicker pop sound at moments on his record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen came 1984, and two key new works in Cohen's output -- the poetic\/religious volume The Book of Mercy and the album Various Positions (1984). The latter, recorded with Jennifer Warnes, is arguably the most accessible album of his entire career up to that time -- Cohen's voice, now a peculiarly expressive baritone instrument, found a beautiful pairing with Warnes, and the songs were as fine as ever, steeped in spirituality and sexuality, with \"Dance Me to the End of Love\" a killer opener: a wry, doom-laden yet impassioned pop-style ballad that is impossible to forget. Those efforts overlapped with some ventures by the composer\/singer into other creative realms, including an award-winning short film that he wrote, directed, and scored, entitled I Am a Hotel, and the score for the 1985 conceptual film Night Magic, which earned a Juno Award in Canada for Best Movie Score.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSad to say, Various Positions went relatively unnoticed, and was followed by another extended sabbatical from recording, which ended with I'm Your Man (1988). But during his hiatus, Warnes had released her album of Cohen-authored material, entitled Famous Blue Raincoat, which had sold extremely well and introduced Cohen to a new generation of listeners. So when I'm Your Man did appear, with its electronic production (albeit still rather spare) and songs that added humor (albeit dark humor) to his mix of pessimistic and poetic conceits, the result was his best-selling record in more than a decade. The result, in 1991, was the release of I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, a CD of recordings of his songs by the likes of R.E.M., the Pixies, Nick Cave \u0026amp; the Bad Seeds, and John Cale, which put Cohen as a songwriter pushing age 60 right back on center stage for the '90s. He rose to the occasion, releasing The Future, an album that dwelt on the many threats facing mankind in the coming years and decades, a year later. Not the stuff of pop charts or MTV heavy rotation, it attracted Cohen's usual coterie of fans, and enough press interest as well as sufficient sales, to justify the release in 1994 of his second concert album, Cohen Live, derived from his two most recent tours. A year later came another tribute album, Tower of Song, featuring Cohen's songs as interpreted by Billy Joel, Willie Nelson, et al.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of all of this new activity surrounding his writing and compositions, Cohen embarked on a new phase of his life. Religious concerns were never too far from his thinking and work, even when he was making a name for himself writing songs about love, and he had focused even more on this side of life since Various Positions. He spent time at the Mt. Baldy Zen Center, a Buddhist retreat in California, and eventually became a full-time resident, and a Buddhist monk in the late '90s. When he re-emerged in 1999, Cohen had many dozens of new compositions in hand, songs and poems alike. His new collaborations were with singer\/songwriter\/musician Sharon Robinson, who also ended up producing the resulting album, Ten New Songs (2001) -- there also emerged during this period a release called Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979, comprised of live recordings from his tour 22 years earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2004, the year he turned 70, Cohen released one of the most controversial albums of his career, Dear Heather. It revealed his voice anew, in this phase of his career, as a deep baritone more limited in range than on any previous recording, but it overcame this change in vocal timbre by facing it head-on, just as Cohen had done with his singing throughout his career. It also contained a number of songs for which Cohen wrote music but not lyrics, a decided change of pace for a man who'd started out as a poet. And it was as personal a record as Cohen had ever issued. His return to recording was one of the more positive aspects of Cohen's resumption of his music activities. On another note, in 2005, he filed suit against his longtime business manager and his financial advisor over the alleged theft of more than five million dollars, at least some of which took place during his years at the Buddhist retreat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive decades after he emerged as a public literary figure and then a performer, Cohen remained one of the most compelling and enigmatic musical figures of his era, and one of the very few of that era who commanded as much respect and attention, and probably as large an audience, in the 21st century as he did in the '60s. As much as any survivor of that decade, Cohen held onto his original audience and saw it grow across generations, in keeping with a truly timeless and ageless body of music. In 2006, his enduring influence seemed to be acknowledged in Lions Gate Films' release of Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, director Lian Lunson's concert\/portrait of Cohen's work and career. A performance set, Live in London, was released in 2009. In 2010, the combined video and audio package Songs from the Road was issued, documenting his 2008 world tour (which actually lasted until late 2010), revisiting songs from each part of his career. The tour covered 84 dates and sold over 700,000 tickets worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCohen didn't rest long, however: in early 2011 he began to craft what would become Old Ideas, his first album of new material in seven years. The sessions took place with producers Ed Sanders (renowned poet and leader of the Fugs), Patrick Leonard, Cohen's saxophonist Dino Soldo, and his partner, singer and songwriter Anjani Thomas. Old Ideas contained ten new songs dealing with spirituality, mortality, sexuality, loss, and acceptance, similar in sound and texture to Dear Heather. The tracks \"Lullaby\" and \"Darkness\" were staples of the world tour, while the cut \"Show Me the Place\" was pre-released in late 2011. Old Ideas was released at the end of January 2012. It was a tremendous success, debuting inside the Top Five in the U.S. and U.K., as well as reaching number one in Canada. Cohen's success in Europe was more impressive; Old Ideas reached number one in almost ten countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter yet another world tour that brought him universal accolades, Cohen, uncharacteristically, returned quickly to the studio with producer (and co-writer) Patrick Leonard, emerging with nine new songs, at least one of which -- \"Born in Chains\" -- had origins that dated back 40 years. Popular Problems was released in September of 2014 to positive reviews and chart success. (Just like its predecessor, it hit number one across Europe as well as Canada.) Cohen continued to tour internationally with impressive vigor, and in December 2014 he released Live in Dublin, his third live album since returning to the road. The album had been recorded in September 2013, during a concert at Dublin's O2 Arena, and a high-definition video release appeared in tandem with the audio edition. Yet another concert document, Can't Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour, appeared in May 2015, with the album drawn from live takes as well as pre-show rehearsals at soundchecks. Cohen went right back to work on new material although he was in declining health. On September 21, 2016, his 82nd birthday, \"You Want It Darker,\" the eerie, mortality-themed title track of a new studio album, appeared on the Internet. The full-length, produced by his son Adam, was issued on October 21. The record was his goodbye; Cohen passed away less than three weeks later, on November 7, 2016. Another album drawn from Cohen's final recording sessions, Thanks for the Dance, appeared in November 2019. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cohen-leonard-hallelujah-songs-from-his-albums","title":"HALLELUJAH \u0026 SONGS FROM HIS ALBUMS","description":"TracksCredits\r\n1 Hallelujah (Live at Glastonbury)\r\n2 Suzanne\r\n3 Bird on the Wire\r\n4 Famous Blue Raincoat\r\n5 Chelsea Hotel #2\r\n6 Who By Fire\r\n7 Dance Me to the End of Love\r\n8 I'm Your Man\r\n9 Anthem\r\n10 The Future\r\n11 In My Secret Life\r\n12 Recitation W\/ N.L. 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Though Leonard Cohen had already established himself as the doyen of doom with his first two albums, his third, SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE, finds him kicking off the 1970s with the sharpest repudiation of the '60s peace-and-love\/flower-power ethic the world had yet seen from the \"sensitive troubadour\" corner of the music map. Though it's not really a \"concept album,\" SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE feels like a guided tour through one man's battle-scarred love life. The utter emotional degradation of \"Avalanche,\" the suicidal frenzy of \"Dress Rehearsal Rag,\" and the bitter regret of \"Last Year's Man\" all sound like stops on the same ill-fated journey. The arrangements are wisely based around Cohen's world-weary voice and hypnotic acoustic-guitar patterns, with occasional orchestrations rising like dark clouds in the background. 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It is much more ambitious than Cohen's previous efforts in terms of songwriting, but the production is nevertheless understated and tasteful. The urgent delivery and rhythmic drive of \"Lover Lover Lover\" and \"There is a War\" makes it seem like the young David Byrne spent as much time absorbing Cohen as he did Jonathan Richman. Ever the rake, Cohen makes a sly romantic appeal to an objet d'amour on the low-key, dixieland jazz-inflected \"Why Don't You Try.\" NEW SKIN is full of emotionally harrowing moments. On \"Is This What You Wanted,\" Cohen is haunted by the ghost of a relationship that may not even be over yet. \"A Singer Must Die\" finds him taken to task by the world at large (and himself) for some imagined treason intrinsic to his chosen profession. 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Aided by co-producer Henry Lewy, he filled RECENT SONGS with stately songpoems marked by lush (but never overdone), elegant arrangements. While there was always a pronounced literary streak in Cohen's work, the songs here find him at his most purely poetic, more the chansonnier than the troubadour.\"I Came So Far For Beauty\" finds Cohen in a familiar self-effacing mode, recounting his vain search for the perfect muse. Like NEW SKIN's \"There is a War,\" \"The Traitor\" effectively analyzes personal travails through militaristic metaphor, over semi-classical backing. The closing \"Ballad of the Absent Mare,\" later covered by Emmylou Harris, comes off like an epic prose poem in the classic ballad style, but its slight cowboy lilt provides a nice contrast to the lyric. 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The surprising thing is that after all that interim time spent on a mountain in Zen meditation (no, really) the tone and outlook of Cohen's work seems hardly altered. Most importantly, his masterful songwriting acumen did not diminish one iota. If anything, Cohen's poetic prowess seems sharper, more focused and concise on 10 NEW SONGS.\r\nSonically, the album continues Cohen's fascination with synthesizers, as first heard on 1988's I'M YOUR MAN. For his first album of the 21st century, he's embraced the digital world fully; nearly every sound is generated by the electronic artillery of Cohen's producer\/L.A. cohort Sharon Robinson. There's a polished modesty to the arrangements, always completely subservient to Cohen's richly resonant lyrics and crater-deep voice. Wordwise, Cohen tackles the vagaries of love, the fragile nature of humanity, and the emotional subtext of global politics; typically weighty subjects befitting a man commonly regarded as one of the greatest songpoets of his time. 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Where the Canadian troubadour's previous albums all sounded like carefully constructed towers of song, built piece by painstaking piece (and Cohen has confirmed this as his working process), DEAR HEATHER seems to be an entirely more spontaneous offering. One might speculate that longtime Buddhist Cohen has taken the precepts of Zen to heart in presenting a batch of compositions unmarred by the effects of obvious labor. Lyrically and melodically, these songs are more sparse and pared-down than anything else in Cohen's catalog. Some are whittled down to only a simple recitation repeated numerous times over a skeletal chord progression. By simplifying his approach to such an extreme degree, it seems as though Cohen is trying to get as close as possible to the heart of his work, without the literary trappings of his past accomplishments. Nevertheless, one link with his previous work is the bonus live cut tacked on to the end of the disc. In the tradition of past quirky Cohen covers like Irving Berlin's \"Always\" and Richard Blakeslee's \"Passing Thru,\" the gravel-voiced singer tackles the country classic \"Tennessee Waltz\" with trademark aplomb that also reminds the listener of Cohen's ever-present sense of humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 10\/20\/2017\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44581818073321,"sku":"9V6E9E-6L6K-00","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-dear-heather_G7ZmB.jpg?v=1745095712"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-songs-of-love-and-hate-import-180-gram-vinyl","title":"| Songs Of Love And Hate (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eSongs of Love and Hate is the third studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. Produced by Bob Johnston, the album was released on March 19, 1971, through Columbia Records. Cohen reunited with producer Bob Johnston, who was at the helm for the singer's previous album Songs From a Room, and also brought back guitarist Ron Cornelius, who acted as leader of Cohen's new crew of backing musicians.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eIt doesn't get darker than this. Though Leonard Cohen had already established himself as the doyen of doom with his first two albums, his third, SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE, finds him kicking off the 1970s with the sharpest repudiation of the '60s peace-and-love\/flower-power ethic the world had yet seen from the \"sensitive troubadour\" corner of the music map. Though it's not really a \"concept album,\" SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE feels like a guided tour through one man's battle-scarred love life. 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Includes liner notes by Pico Iyer.\r\nRecording information: 1967-2001.\r\nIllustrator: Leonard Cohen.\r\nPhotographer: Dominique Issermann.\r\nTHE ESSENTIAL LEONARD COHEN manages the considerable task of documenting the career of a man many consider one of the finest songwriters in the English language. Easily on par with Bob Dylan and Paul Simon in terms of sheer poetic power, Canadian troubadour Cohen started out, appropriately enough, as a prose poet before beginning a recording career in the late 1960s. His early albums, amply represented here, found him accompanied chiefly by his own nylon-string guitar, delivering dark, but often romantic, reveries atop folk-based song structures.\r\nBy the late '70s, Cohen's lyrics and musical settings had both grown more expansive, as is made plain here by judiciously chosen tracks from that period. In the late '80s, at an age when many of his contemporaries had long since retired, Cohen experienced a rebirth via the sardonic songs and spare, electronics-laced backing of I'M YOUR MAN, which gets the most space on this collection. By remaining a man apart from every era he moved through, whether the flower-power hippie days or the earnest '70s singer\/songwriter boom, Cohen maintained both his vision and his credibility, making THE ESSENTIAL LEONARD COHEN indispensable to anyone interested in serious 20th-century songwriting.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRSD Date: n\/a\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 10\/22\/2002\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44586123624681,"sku":"6G3D39-DV88-00","price":20.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-the-essential-leonard-cohen-limited-edition-remastered-2-cds_o34Iz.jpg?v=1754341142"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-live-in-london-180-gram-vinyl-download-insert-3-lps","title":"Live In London (180 Gram Vinyl, Download Insert) (3 Lp's)","description":"After taking a decade-and-a-half vacation from live performance, septuagenarian singer\/songwriter\/saint Leonard Cohen returned to the stage in 2008 for a European tour. During his absence, his popularity had grown to such a degree that his London concert took place at the city's O2 Arena. With the gathered masses sounding suitably enraptured, Cohen can be heard delivering a long program that serves as both career summary and mission reiteration on this double-length live album (FYI, there's also a DVD companion release).Amazingly, Cohen sounds even more vital and intense than the last time he strode the boards, back in the mid-'90s. For all the high-powered cover versions over the years, his cavernously deep voice remains the most effective instrument for delivering his poetic incantations, looming large over a subtle, sympathetic band. He invests '60s classics like \"Suzanne\" and \"Bird on a Wire\" with new energy, underlining their continued relevance, while establishing a place in the canon for latter-day gems like \"Anthem\" and \"Democracy,\" all the while punctuating his performance with carefully placed quips that show his trademark black humor to be in full effect.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 12\/15\/2017\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44586416898281,"sku":"8VCTTS-945I-00","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-live-in-london-180-gram-vinyl-download-insert-3-lps_a2KIT.jpg?v=1747140209"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-death-of-a-ladies-man-import","title":"Death Of A Ladies Man [Import]","description":"Personnel: Leonard Cohen (vocals, guitar); Dan Kessel (guitar, keyboards, organ, synthesizers, background vocals); Phil Spector (guitar, keyboards); Art Munson, David Kessel, David Isaac, Jesse Ed Davis, Ray Pohlman (guitar); Albert Perkins, \"Sneaky Pete\" Kleinow (slide pedal guitar); Bobby Bruce (fiddle); Don Menza, Steve Douglas (flute, saxophone); Jay Migliori (saxophone); Conte Candoli (trumpet); Charles Loper, Jack Redmond (trombone); Pete Jolly, Tom Hensley, Don Randi, Bill Mays, Barry Goldberg, Mike Lang (keyboards); Devra Robitaille (synthesizer); Ray Pohlman, Ray Neopolitan); Terry Gibbs (vibraphone, percussion); Hal Blaine, Jim Keltner (drums); Gene Estes (percussion); Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Bill Diez (background vocals).Recorded at Whitney Recording Studios, Gold Star Recording Studios \u0026amp; Devonshire Sound Studios, Los Angeles, California.In retrospect, after Cohen's ironic latter-day embrace of Europop sounds, the brashness of Phil Spector's production style doesn't seem such an unlikely mate for Cohen's songs. At the time, though, the pairing of the genteel acoustic songpoet with Mr. Wall of Sound raised more than a few eyebrows. While Spector's famed everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach does largely preclude the opportunity for subtlety, the sheer audaciousness of the Big Sound works nicely with Cohen's spleen-venting sensibilities. Wailing at the top of his lungs over a sea of sound, Cohen comes off like a crazed, poetic carnival barker. Highlights are the ribald, funky and uproarious \"Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On\" (featuring backing vocals by Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg!) and the epic title cut. This isn't the place for neophytes to start, but for hardcore fans, it'll be irresistible.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 12\/01\/2017\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44586493346025,"sku":"9GWJ1B-61AF-00","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-death-of-a-ladies-man-import_PlieL.jpg?v=1759367047"},{"product_id":"cohen-leonard-tribute-im-your-fan-hq","title":"I'M YOUR FAN -HQ-","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"aec-product-description\" class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2014 2X 180 gram vinyl LP pressing reissue. I'm YOUR FAN: THE SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN is a tribute album to Leonard Cohen, released in 1991, produced by the French music magazine Les Inrockuptibles. The album features Cohen's songs interpreted by some of the most respected Rock acts of the time. It's name is a play on the title of Cohen's album I'm YOUR MAN. The album includes two different covers of 'Tower of Song', one by Robert Forster and another by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The latter version is a radical deconstruction of the song, edited from an hour-long jam session held by the band. 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His hypnotic, murmured voice retains its compelling power and the content on Songs From A Room proves equally resonant. Where another pensive singer-songwriter might warp his craft with bathos, Cohen injects his work with mature insight, using metaphor and poetic insight to enhance his craft. Superb acoustic guitarwork weaves a path throughout the bewitching melodies, enhancing the singer's spell, although Cohen's self-deprecating humour is equally prevalent, particularly on the singalong 'Tonight Will Be Fine'. 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Cohen's ability to be both intimate and universal is a rare gift and results in a body of work that is both timeless and enthralling, albeit a bit sombre.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 06\/03\/2016\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44588146688233,"sku":"K12XQP-CX5N-00","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-songs-of-leonard-cohen-import_n0q3K.jpg?v=1759413351"},{"product_id":"cohen-leonard-hallelujah-songs-from-his-albums-1","title":"HALLELUJAH \u0026 SONGS FROM HIS ALBUMS","description":"TracksCredits\r\n- Disc 1 -\r\n1 Hallelujah (Live at Glastonbury)\r\n2 Suzanne\r\n3 Bird on the Wire\r\n4 Famous Blue Raincoat\r\n- Disc 2 -\r\n1 Chelsea Hotel #2\r\n2 Who By Fire\r\n3 Dance Me to the End of Love\r\n4 I'm Your Man\r\n- Disc 3 -\r\n1 Anthem\r\n2 The Future\r\n3 In My Secret Life\r\n4 Recitation W\/ N.L. 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Two bonus tracks, \"Store Room\" and \"Blessed Is the Memory,\" have been added here to the 1968 album's track list, while an early version of \"Dress Rehearsal Rag\" has been added as a bonus track to the Songs of Love and Hate program. ~ Steve Leggett\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock and Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 01\/18\/2011\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44588949471465,"sku":"POTLD3-6YH5-00","price":18.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-x2-songs-of-love-and-hate-songs-of-le_haDxh.jpg?v=1759394639"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-im-your-man-import","title":"I'm Your Man [Import]","description":"The lyrics to \"Take This Waltz\" are based on Federico Garcia Lorca's poem \"Little Viennese Waltz.\"\r\nPersonnel: Leonard Cohen (vocals, arranger, various instruments); Anjani, Jennifer Warnes, Evelyine Hebey, Mayel Assouly, Elisabeth Valletti, Jude Johnstone (vocals); Jean-Philippe Rykiel, Jeff Fisher (arrangers, various instruments); Michel Robidoux (arranger, keyboards, drums); Roscoe Beck (arranger); Bob Stanley (guitar); Sneaky Pete Kleinow (steel guitar); John Bilezikjian (oud); Raffi Hakopian (violin); Richard Baudet (saxophone); Larry Cohen (keyboards); Peter Kisilenko (bass); Vinnie Colaiuta, Tom Brechtlein (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion).\r\nProducers: Leonard Cohen, Roscoe Beck, Michel Robidoux, Gean-Michel Reusser.\r\nEngineers include: Ian Terry, Roger Guerin, Francois Deschamps.\r\nRecorded at Studio Tempo and DMS Studios, Montreal, Canada; Rock Steady, Los Angeles, California; Studio Montmartre, Paris, France; Soundworks, New York, New York.\r\nContemporary music's poet laureate, Leonard Cohen performs in a universe of pessimism, cynicism, spirituality and profound romance, all stirred with a dash of wit. On I'M YOUR MAN, his acid words burn deep to the soul.\r\nCohen's poetry deals with powerful demons--\"You loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win\/You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline\/How many nights I've prayed for this: to let my work begin.\" He is obsessed with religion--\"Everybody knows what you've been through\/From the bloody cross on top of calvary to the beach at Malibu\"--and has a love\/hate relationship with himself--\"My friends are gone and my hair is grey\/I ache in places where I used to play.\" Often, existential dilemmas rear their complex heads (\"They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom\"), but it is eroticism that truly drives Leonard Cohen--\"I'd drive howl at your beauty like a dog in heat\/I'd claw at your heart and I'd tear at your sheet\/I'd say 'please, please, I'm your man.'\"\r\nOh yes, there's music also. Cohen's deep, gruff vocals are offset by female singers, and by moody, textured instrumentation ranging from rock and jazz to classical and folk. Yet it is the language that is the true star of I'M YOUR MAN.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRSD Date: n\/a\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 10\/07\/2016\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44589011861737,"sku":"623YX6-OQWG-00","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/Leonard-Cohen-Im-Your-Man-Import_ZhZI8.jpg?v=1740173293"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-popular-problems","title":"POPULAR PROBLEMS","description":"Leonard Cohen's Popular Problems is an uncharacteristically quick follow-up to 2012's Old Ideas. That record, cut in the aftermath of a multi-year tour, revitalized him as a recording artist. Producer Patrick Leonard (Madonna, Bryan Ferry) serves as co-writer on all but one tune on Popular Problems. While Cohen's sound has revolved around keyboards since 1988's I'm Your Man, Leonard gets that the real power in the songwriter's lyrics are best relayed through his own own simple melodies. Everything here -- keys, female backing chorus, acoustic instrumentation, etc. -- is in their service. As always, Cohen's songs -- delivered in his deepest earth rasp -- offer protagonists who are ambivalent spiritual seekers, lusty, commitment-phobic lovers, and jaded, untrusting\/untrustworthy world citizens. He is them, they are him: strangers hiding in plain sight. Opener \"Slow\" is paced by a blues vamp from an electric piano and kick drum. \"...You want to get there soon\/I want to get there last...\" is delivered in a streetwise croak. It's a fine career metaphor, but the hilarious double entendre is self evident, too: \"...All your turns are tight\/Let me catch my breath\/I thought we had all night.\" \"Almost Like the Blues\" employs a 12-bar variant exoticized by hand percussion. Cohen juxtaposes visions of global horror with worry over bad reviews; he's culpable because of his vanity. Gospel provides illustration on some of the better songs -- there are no weak ones. It's used with razored effect on \"Samson in New Orleans\" to address the devastation -- physical, emotional, spiritual -- left by Hurricane Katrina. Cohen really attempts to sing \"Did I Ever Love You.\" Though it comes out a measured growl, its impact is searing. It shifts from gospel to country jaunt only to circle back, underscoring the bitter, vulnerable truth in the lyric. He observes: \"The lemon trees blossom\/The almond trees wither,\" before asking: \"Was I ever someone\/Who could love you forever?\"; he knows the answer. The keyboards and tablas in \"Nevermind,\" a narrative of treachery and global hypocrisy, create skeletal, tense funk. They're appended by Donna De Lory's Arabic chant for peace and safety in contrast to the lyric's scathing accusations. Gospel returns on \"Born in Chains,\" a gentle but gripping first-person account of spiritual seeking with references to Judaism, Christianity, and Cohen's adopted Zen: \"...I've heard the soul unfolds\/In the chambers of its longing...But all the Ladders of the Night have fallen\/Only darkness now\/To lift the longing up.\" On set closer \"You Got Me Singing,\" Cohen, accompanied only by acoustic guitar and violin, lays out hope: \"You got me singing even though the world is gone\/You got me thinking I'd like to carry on.\" It's an open-ended, affirmative sendoff. Popular Problems reveals that at 80, Cohen not only has plenty left in the tank, but is at his most confident and committed. This is his finest recording since 1995's The Future. ~ Thom Jurek\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 10\/07\/2014\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44590119518441,"sku":"54O6SW-LQ14-00","price":30.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-popular-problems_F0hnD.jpg?v=1759404119"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-various-positions-150-gram-vinyl-download-insert","title":"Various Positions (150 Gram Vinyl, Download Insert)","description":"Personnel: Leonard Cohen (vocals, guitar); Jennifer Warnes (vocals); Sid McGinnis (guitar); Kenneth Kosek (fiddle); Ron Getman (harmonica, background vocals); John Lissauer (piano, keyboards, background vocals); John Crowder (bass, background vocals); Richard Crooks (drums); Lani Groves, Erin Dickins, Merle Miller, Yvonne Lewis, Anjani Thomas, Crissie Faith (background vocals).Recorded at Quadrasonic Sound, New York, New York. Originally released on PVC.VARIOUS POSITIONS proved to be a transitional album for Cohen, poised halfway between the classic balladic style of RECENT SONGS and the cool electronic backing of I'M YOUR MAN.  It was certainly Cohen's slickest production to date, though it seems practically spartan compared to later recordings. The slinky, European feel of the minor-key romantic plea \"Dance Me to the End of Love\" is Cohen at his most sensual and persuasive. \"The Captain\"'s shifting perspective navigates a conversation between two characters musing on the personal cost of war. Most significantly, new vistas in Cohen's work are opened up by \"Hallelujah\" (a highlight of Jeff Buckley's debut album nearly a decade later) and \"If It Be Your Will.\" These two songs present themselves as musical prayers, and their fragile spirituality is a refreshing, largely unprecedented development in Cohen's dark artistic legacy.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRSD Date: DDD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 12\/01\/2017\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44590464237801,"sku":"ENN8LS-RAJO-00","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-various-positions-150-gram-vinyl-download-insert_m3a8G.jpg?v=1740597189"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-live-in-london-hol","title":"Live In London (Hol)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLive In London (Hol) is a Records \u0026amp; LPs from Leonard Cohen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock and Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 04\/01\/2014\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44594513445097,"sku":"DBYHVD-QJ6U-00","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-live-in-london-hol_kah24.jpg?v=1759315109"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-the-future-import","title":"The Future [Import]","description":"Personnel: Leonard Cohen (vocals); Dean Parks (guitar, mandolin); Bob Metzger (guitar, bass); Paul Jackson Jr., Dennis Herring (guitar); Bob Furgo (violin); Brandon Fields, Lon Price (tenor saxophone); Greg Smith (baritone saxophone); Lee R. Thronburg (trumpet, trombone); Steve Lindsey (piano, organ, Mellotron, keyboards); Jim Cox, Greg Phillinganes (piano); Randy Kerber (keyboards, synthesizer); Jeff Fisher (keyboards); Bob Glaub, Lee Sklar (bass); James Gadson, Ed Greene, Steve Meador, Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Bill Ginn, Steve Croes (programming); Anjani Thomas, Tony Warren, Valerie Pinkston-Mayo, LA Mass Choir, Peggy Blue, Edna Wright, Jean Johnson, Jacquelyn Gouche-Farris, David Morgan (background vocals).Producers include: Leonard Cohen, Steve Lindsey, Bill Ginn, Leanne Ungar, Rebecca De Mornay.Leonard Cohen's 1992 release, THE FUTURE, is both a cynical attack on civilization and a spiritual edification, with the gruff-voiced theme \"I've seen the future...it's murder.\" From the sinister whisper of the opening title track, the mood moves to the redemptive optimism of \"Light As A Breeze,\" and the sardonic political march, \"Democracy.\" There's a highly unlikely cover of Irving Berlin's \"Always\"; peculiar for an artist known more for his lyrical poetry than for his interpretive skills. But Leonard Cohen's voice translates uniquely to interpreting pop standards, and he gives the song a highly original bluesy read. Another unlikely cut is the closing instrumental, \"Tacoma Trailer,\" featuring fine Synclavier work by Bill Ginn.THE FUTURE is brimming with the tormented poetry for which Cohen is so well-known. His foghorn voice is close to a murmur on many songs, and he sets the mood (dark and foreboding), as he often does, through the able assistance of his omni-present female back-up singers. 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Aided by co-producer Henry Lewy, he filled RECENT SONGS with stately songpoems marked by lush (but never overdone), elegant arrangements. While there was always a pronounced literary streak in Cohen's work, the songs here find him at his most purely poetic, more the chansonnier than the troubadour.\n\"I Came So Far For Beauty\" finds Cohen in a familiar self-effacing mode, recounting his vain search for the perfect muse. Like NEW SKIN's \"There is a War,\" \"The Traitor\" effectively analyzes personal travails through militaristic metaphor, over semi-classical backing. The closing \"Ballad of the Absent Mare,\" later covered by Emmylou Harris, comes off like an epic prose poem in the classic ballad style, but its slight cowboy lilt provides a nice contrast to the lyric. 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The urgent delivery and rhythmic drive of \"Lover Lover Lover\" and \"There is a War\" makes it seem like the young David Byrne spent as much time absorbing Cohen as he did Jonathan Richman. Ever the rake, Cohen makes a sly romantic appeal to an objet d'amour on the low-key, dixieland jazz-inflected \"Why Don't You Try.\"\nNEW SKIN is full of emotionally harrowing moments. On \"Is This What You Wanted,\" Cohen is haunted by the ghost of a relationship that may not even be over yet. \"A Singer Must Die\" finds him taken to task by the world at large (and himself) for some imagined treason intrinsic to his chosen profession. 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Whereas the aforementioned date was the complete record of a single evening at one venue in 2008, Songs from the Road is a DVD\/CD package that documents his world tour during that year through 2009. It features the same band performing 12 well-known songs from throughout the songwriter's career in various locations around the globe. The DVD also includes an intimate 20-minute backstage interview. This was a historic tour for Cohen, who began it at age 73, playing 84 shows and selling over 700,000 tickets. Recorded in high definition, the set was also made available on Blu-ray. In addition to the other two formats, the audio portion was made available as a 180-gram vinyl LP as well.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock and Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 09\/14\/2010\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44598871785705,"sku":"7DSPGL-PV5T-00","price":41.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-songs-from-the-road_3XwbG.jpg?v=1747135744"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-death-of-ladies-man","title":"DEATH OF LADIES MAN","description":"Personnel: Leonard Cohen (vocals, guitar); Dan Kessel (guitar, keyboards, organ, synthesizers, background vocals); Phil Spector (guitar, keyboards); Art Munson, David Kessel, David Isaac, Jesse Ed Davis, Ray Pohlman (guitar); Albert Perkins, \"Sneaky Pete\" Kleinow (slide pedal guitar); Bobby Bruce (fiddle); Don Menza, Steve Douglas (flute, saxophone); Jay Migliori (saxophone); Conte Candoli (trumpet); Charles Loper, Jack Redmond (trombone); Pete Jolly, Tom Hensley, Don Randi, Bill Mays, Barry Goldberg, Mike Lang (keyboards); Devra Robitaille (synthesizer); Ray Pohlman, Ray Neopolitan); Terry Gibbs (vibraphone, percussion); Hal Blaine, Jim Keltner (drums); Gene Estes (percussion); Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Bill Diez (background vocals).\nRecorded at Whitney Recording Studios, Gold Star Recording Studios \u0026amp; Devonshire Sound Studios, Los Angeles, California.\nIn retrospect, after Cohen's ironic latter-day embrace of Europop sounds, the brashness of Phil Spector's production style doesn't seem such an unlikely mate for Cohen's songs. At the time, though, the pairing of the genteel acoustic songpoet with Mr. Wall of Sound raised more than a few eyebrows. While Spector's famed everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach does largely preclude the opportunity for subtlety, the sheer audaciousness of the Big Sound works nicely with Cohen's spleen-venting sensibilities. Wailing at the top of his lungs over a sea of sound, Cohen comes off like a crazed, poetic carnival barker. Highlights are the ribald, funky and uproarious \"Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On\" (featuring backing vocals by Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg!) and the epic title cut. This isn't the place for neophytes to start, but for hardcore fans, it'll be irresistible.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock and Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 03\/27\/2012\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44598982344937,"sku":"VDDPA1-Z8C8-00","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-death-of-ladies-man_efIeI.jpg?v=1759367083"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-future","title":"FUTURE","description":"Personnel: Leonard Cohen (vocals); Dean Parks (guitar, mandolin); Bob Metzger (guitar, bass); Paul Jackson Jr., Dennis Herring (guitar); Bob Furgo (violin); Brandon Fields, Lon Price (tenor saxophone); Greg Smith (baritone saxophone); Lee R. Thronburg (trumpet, trombone); Steve Lindsey (piano, organ, Mellotron, keyboards); Jim Cox, Greg Phillinganes (piano); Randy Kerber (keyboards, synthesizer); Jeff Fisher (keyboards); Bob Glaub, Lee Sklar (bass); James Gadson, Ed Greene, Steve Meador, Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Bill Ginn, Steve Croes (programming); Anjani Thomas, Tony Warren, Valerie Pinkston-Mayo, LA Mass Choir, Peggy Blue, Edna Wright, Jean Johnson, Jacquelyn Gouche-Farris, David Morgan (background vocals).\nProducers include: Leonard Cohen, Steve Lindsey, Bill Ginn, Leanne Ungar, Rebecca De Mornay.\nLeonard Cohen's 1992 release, THE FUTURE, is both a cynical attack on civilization and a spiritual edification, with the gruff-voiced theme \"I've seen the future...it's murder.\" From the sinister whisper of the opening title track, the mood moves to the redemptive optimism of \"Light As A Breeze,\" and the sardonic political march, \"Democracy.\" There's a highly unlikely cover of Irving Berlin's \"Always\"; peculiar for an artist known more for his lyrical poetry than for his interpretive skills. But Leonard Cohen's voice translates uniquely to interpreting pop standards, and he gives the song a highly original bluesy read. Another unlikely cut is the closing instrumental, \"Tacoma Trailer,\" featuring fine Synclavier work by Bill Ginn.\nTHE FUTURE is brimming with the tormented poetry for which Cohen is so well-known. His foghorn voice is close to a murmur on many songs, and he sets the mood (dark and foreboding), as he often does, through the able assistance of his omni-present female back-up singers. With the superb lyrics of songs like \"Waiting For The Miracle\" and \"Closing Time,\" Leonard Cohen remains rock's preeminent poet.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 08\/14\/2012\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44599058890985,"sku":"REZTMX-VW87-00","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-future_CmaKT.jpg?v=1759172824"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-live-at-the-complex-los-angeles-lp","title":"Live At The Complex Los Angeles Lp","description":"\u003cp\u003eLive At The Complex  Los Angeles Lp is a Records \u0026amp; LPs from Leonard Cohen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 1\/1\/1980\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44599507026153,"sku":"NIPC97-UCMA-00","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-live-at-the-complex-los-angeles-lp_2Uroi.jpg?v=1759022595"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-songs-from-the-road-1","title":"Songs from the Road","description":"After the critical and commercial success of Live in London, which was issued in 2009, Leonard Cohen and Sony decided to follow it up with a second volume. Whereas the aforementioned date was the complete record of a single evening at one venue in 2008, Songs from the Road is a DVD\/CD package that documents his world tour during that year through 2009. It features the same band performing 12 well-known songs from throughout the songwriter's career in various locations around the globe. The DVD also includes an intimate 20-minute backstage interview. This was a historic tour for Cohen, who began it at age 73, playing 84 shows and selling over 700,000 tickets. Recorded in high definition, the set was also made available on Blu-ray. In addition to the other two formats, the audio portion was made available as a 180-gram vinyl LP as well.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock and Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 09\/21\/2010\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44599605723369,"sku":"BH7JHZ-L67L-00","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-songs-from-the-road_yLSKt.jpg?v=1759395832"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-thanks-for-the-dance","title":"Thanks for the Dance","description":"\u003cp\u003eThanks for the Dance is a Records \u0026amp; LPs from Leonard Cohen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 11\/22\/2019\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44600179228905,"sku":"2YI10U-YVXX-00","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-thanks-for-the-dance_HaEPL.jpg?v=1747135815"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-dear-heather-1","title":"Dear Heather","description":"While there are some familiar elements present, much of DEAR HEATHER is a stark contrast to virtually all of Leonard Cohen's previous recorded work. Where the Canadian troubadour's previous albums all sounded like carefully constructed towers of song, built piece by painstaking piece (and Cohen has confirmed this as his working process), DEAR HEATHER seems to be an entirely more spontaneous offering. One might speculate that longtime Buddhist Cohen has taken the precepts of Zen to heart in presenting a batch of compositions unmarred by the effects of obvious labor.\nLyrically and melodically, these songs are more sparse and pared-down than anything else in Cohen's catalog. Some are whittled down to only a simple recitation repeated numerous times over a skeletal chord progression. By simplifying his approach to such an extreme degree, it seems as though Cohen is trying to get as close as possible to the heart of his work, without the literary trappings of his past accomplishments. Nevertheless, one link with his previous work is the bonus live cut tacked on to the end of the disc. In the tradition of past quirky Cohen covers like Irving Berlin's \"Always\" and Richard Blakeslee's \"Passing Thru,\" the gravel-voiced singer tackles the country classic \"Tennessee Waltz\" with trademark aplomb that also reminds the listener of Cohen's ever-present sense of humor.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 05\/22\/12\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44600494751977,"sku":"P2VMP8-ODSD-00","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-dear-heather_gvQBA.jpg?v=1759301277"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-back-in-motherland-toronto-live","title":"Back In Motherland, Toronto Live","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrand New Sealed | Leonard Cohen | Back In Motherland, Toronto Live | Vinyl | Release Date: 01\/01\/1980\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Folk, World, \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 1\/1\/1980\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leonard Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44605791797481,"sku":"3ZDQ8J-N0XU-00","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/leonard-cohen-back-in-motherland-toronto-live_6pM8l.jpg?v=1759288956"},{"product_id":"leonard-cohen-field-commander-cohen-tour-of-1979","title":"FIELD COMMANDER COHEN: TOUR OF 1979","description":"Personnel: Leonard Cohen (vocals, guitar); Jennifer Warnes, Sharon Robinson (vocals); John Bilezikjian (mandolin, oud); Raffi Hakopian (violin).Passenger: Mitch Watkins (electric guitar); Paul Ostermayer (flute, saxophone); Bill Ginn (keyboards); Roscoe Beck (bass); Steve Meador (drums).Recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on December 4, 5 \u0026amp; 6, 1979 and at the Dome Theatre in Brighton, England on December 15, 1979.Digitally remastered by Doug Sax (The Mastering Lab, Hollywood, California).As he'd firmly established himself as a poet and novelist years before he made his first album, Leonard Cohen is often regarded less as a musician than as a writer who happens to sing. But his songs have always displayed a subtle but mesmerizing melodic sense that dovetails gracefully with his lyrics, and though his craggy voice has its limits, no one else interprets Cohen's songs with his degree of intelligence and quiet passion. In 1979, after the release of his album Recent Songs, Cohen set out on an international concert tour accompanied by members of the jazz-rock group Passenger; Field Commander Cohen was compiled from recordings of the 1979 tour, and it presents an especially strong argument for Cohen's gifts as a musician. Cohen's voice had gained a great deal of strength and nuance since the dates preserved on 1973's Live Songs, and the smoky rasp that began to scar his vocals on I'm Your Man had yet to set in; this may well be Cohen's best set of recorded performances as a singer, and having Jennifer Warnes and Sharon Robinson on hand as duet partners is especially rich icing on the cake. While the musicians take care to never intrude upon the songs, they play beautifully, with remarkable taste and skill; Passenger bring out the nuances of these songs with a sure but gentle hand (especially bassist Roscoe Beck and Paul Ostermayer on sax and clarinet), and Raffi Hakopian's violin and John Bilezikjian's oud add breathtaking punctuation to these performances (Cohen often cites his musicians after the songs, and it's not hard to imagine a singer being thrilled to work with musicians of this caliber). 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