{"id":11787,"date":"2019-03-28T21:59:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T19:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=11787"},"modified":"2019-03-28T22:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:00:50","slug":"kw-13-2019-new-cd-out-this-week-hallelujah-the-songs-of-leonard-cohen-by-various-artists-ive-never-gotten-over-the-pleasure-of-someone-covering-one-of-my-songs-i-dont-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=11787","title":{"rendered":"KW-13-2019: new CD out this week: HALLELUJAH The Songs of Leonard Cohen by Various Artists – \u201cI\u2019ve never gotten over the pleasure of someone covering one of my songs. I don\u2019t have a sense of proprietorship, which probably stems from coming up as a folksinger where it was understood that songs develop a patina through interpretation. I feel that\u2019s the mark of excellence,\u201d Cohen once said."},"content":{"rendered":"

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HALLELUJAH<\/h2>\n

The Songs of Leonard Cohen
\nby Various Artists<\/h2>\n

Tracks:<\/h2>\n

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01 Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley
\n02 Bird On A Wire – k.d. lang
\n03 Chelsea Hotel No.2 – Rufus Wainwright
\n04 Tower Of Song – Marianne Faithfull
\n05 Dance Me To The End Of Love – Madeleine Peyroux
\n06 Preview Sisters Of Mercy – Dion
\n07 Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye – Judy Collins
\n08 Everybody Knows – Barb Jungr
\n09 Heart With No Companion – Ron Sexsmith
\n10 I Came So Far For Beauty – Stina Nordenstam
\n11 Famous Blue Raincoat – Marissa Nadler
\n12 True Love Leaves No Traces – Tom Northcott
\n13 Suzanne – Nina Simone
\n14 Come Spend The Morning – Lee Hazlewood
\n15 Lover, Lover, Lover – David Blue
\n16 God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot – Buffy Sainte-Marie
\n17 First We Take Manhattan – Joe Cocker
\n18 Avalanche – Nick Cave Featuring The Bad Seeds<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Released on March 29, 2019 by Ace Records, CDTOP 1544, Songwriter Series
\nThe\u00a0 24-page booklet includes a Cohen biography by Ian Johnston Songs # 14 and 16 were never recorded by Cohen himself. This new release in Ace Records\u2019 long-running and highly regarded Songwriters series comprises hand-picked recordings of works by Canada\u2019s much-missed poet laureate Leonard Cohen, including two songs the great man himself never recorded.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never gotten over the pleasure of someone covering one of my songs. I don\u2019t have a sense of proprietorship, which probably stems from coming up as a folksinger where it was understood that songs develop a patina through interpretation. I feel that\u2019s the mark of excellence,\u201d Cohen once said.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s your chance to experience that excellence via 18 eclectic recordings of Cohen compositions by a diverse array of performers from a five-decade time span. \u2018Hey, That\u2019s No Way To Say Goodbye\u2019 is heard in a 1967 version by folk queen Judy Collins, the first-ever artist to record a Cohen song, while Marissa Nadler\u2019s spellbinding interpretation of \u2018Famous Blue Raincoat\u2019 dates from 2007.<\/p>\n

The collection opens with the full-length album version of \u2018Hallelujah\u2019 by Jeff Buckley, one of the most sublime pieces of recorded music one could wish to hear, and closes with Cohen disciple Nick Cave\u2019s radical reworking of \u2018Avalanche\u2019. Other highlights include k.d. lang\u2019s reading of \u2018Bird On A Wire\u2019, Ron Sexsmith\u2019s \u2018Heart With No Companion\u2019, Nina Simone\u2019s personalised arrangement of \u2018Suzanne\u2019, and a live version of \u2018Chelsea Hotel No.2\u2019 by Rufus Wainwright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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