In the introduction to today’s song in the video below, an older Leonard Cohen sits outside on a front patio, smoking a cigarette. He says, “I feel a lot stronger, but I am actually a lot weaker,” which is quite…
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Tower of Song (1988) – Leonard Cohen
We find Leonard Cohen at his most musically rudimentary and starkly poetic in today’s featured track, Tower of Song. It feels like a walk in the wilderness: Cohen crying out in solitude and pleading for inspiration and passion from the…
Tonight Will Be Fine (2005) – Leonard Cohen (Ft. Teddy Thompson)
One of my first proper forays into the life and music of Leonard Cohen was the tribute concert documentary I’m Your Man (2005), which I’ve mentioned here on many occasions. One of the first performances from the concert that made…
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I’m Your Man (1988) – Leonard Cohen
Cohen, who was infamously known as a “ladies’ man,” was never short on romantic and lustful songs. He could paint desirous and appetising scenes with rich imagery – you only have to revisit one of his most beloved songs, Suzanne,…
The Traitor (2005) – Martha Wainwright (written by Leonard Cohen)
It was called the Traitor. It was about the feeling we have of betraying some mission that we were mandated to fulfil and being unable to fulfil it and then coming to understand that the real mandate was not to…
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The Partisan (1969) – Leonard Cohen
The Partisan is an anti-fascist anthem about the French Resistance in World War II. From the plodding bass line commencement of Leonard Cohen’s haunting and affecting The Partison – you can just imagine the resistance fighter trudging the green fields of France as he…
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The Future (1992) – Leonard Cohen
“The Future might as easily have been a book: A more troubling, more vexing image of human failure has not been written.” – Christian Wright (Rolling Stone) The Future by Leonard Cohen is about as bleak as it gets. And…
Take This Waltz (1988) – Leonard Cohen
How Leonard Cohen weaves poetry into music so seamlessly is on full display in today’s track – Take This Waltz. Inspired by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, the lyrics of Take This Waltz are a loose translation, into English,…
Suzanne (1967) – Leonard Cohen
I wrote this in 1966. Suzanne (dancer Suzanne Verdal) had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife of a man I knew. Her hospitality…
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Slow (2014) – Leonard Cohen
Slow is from Leonard Cohen’s penultimate and 13th studio album Popular Problems (2014). It is the fourth song to be presented here from the record after his previous entry – Samson in New Orleans. Slow is one of those tracks…
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