“He was looking forward to playing Israel,” writes Leonard Cohen’s biographer Sylvie Simmons of the songwriter’s first tour of the Holy Land in 1972. “He was terrified of playing Israel.”
Category: Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen :: Montreux Jazz Festival, June 25, 1976
There’s no shortage of Leonard Cohen live albums from over the years, but there’s never been an official release from the man’s 1976 summer tour of Europe. This masterful two-hour Montreux set would do the […]
Michael Kiwanuka :: Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye (Leonard Cohen)
In a year pock-marked by artistic loss, the passing of Leonard Cohen in 2016 particularly stung. With a body of work spanning 14 albums over the course of five decades, Cohen’s influence is boundless, his […]
Leonard Cohen: Yad Eliahu Sports Palace, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1972
“He was looking forward to playing Israel,” writes Leonard Cohen’s biographer Sylvie Simmons of the songwriter’s first tour of the Holy Land in 1972. “He was terrified of playing Israel.” The kickoff show in Tel […]
Nina Simone :: Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) – Alternate Version
Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” is a strange, haunting thing. Largely carried by Cohen’s monotone, yet slightly lilting voice and sparse guitar accompaniment, the song evokes a dark, ambiguous feeling. The angelic backing vocals and seraphic strings […]
The Stranger Song: Leonard Cohen and McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Robert Altman’s 1971 film McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a western quite unlike any other. It has in fact been described as an anti-western. Gone are the heroic, alpha-male and defenseless female archetypes, the numerous and gratuitous gunfights and […]
Leonard Cohen :: Old Ideas
Old Ideas , Leonard Cohen’s first studio release since 2004’s Dear Heather, sets a new paragraph in what has been an exhilarating late chapter in a lengthy career. After breaking with his management following an ugly legal […]
Bill Callahan :: So long, Marianne (Leonard Cohen)
Bill Callahan’s dark country & western croon takes on “ So long, Marianne ,” the opening track off side two of Leonard Cohen’s 1968 debut, Songs of Leonard Cohen . Slowing things down, Callahan and co. eschew the original’s violin and . . […]
Leonard Cohen :: Old Ideas
Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas , his 12th studio album, will be released a week from today. If I might I offer a suggestion, listen to the album cold – sans any outside editorial critique. You’ll be glad […]
Warren Zevon :: First We Take Manhattan (Leonard Cohen)
Warren Zevon doing Leonard Cohen…the old masters at work. While the two auteurs approach to their craft is obviously different, Cohen and Zevon were far from diametric; working the same seam, exorcising tales of the […]
Leonard Cohen :: Los Angeles, April 10 – Tickets
The living legend that is Leonard Cohen is paying a visit to Los Angeles April 10th at the Nokia theatre . Tickets for the show go on sale Monday, March 9th at 10am, but you can win a pair […]