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October 19, 2001

Q&A: The New Leonard Cohen

The cult hero on his songwriting, cooking and Chinese liquor

Dear Heather

Thirteen new (and old) songs from Canada's hippest seventy-year-old it's folly to complain that Leonard Cohen has lost his voice, since he never really had one to begin with. From the thin Canadian-folkie drawl of 1967's Songs of Leonard Cohen to the grave, gravelly tone that settled in circa...

2004 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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Field Commander Cohen Tour Of 1979

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Leonard Cohen is the Jewish Bryan Ferry. In the excellent liner notes of his 1975 The Best of Leonard Cohen, he explains the suave cover photo: "I rarely ever look this good, or bad, depending on your politics." That sums the man up. Running for the money and the flesh, especially the flesh, Cohen was the lit-erary rogue who strummed his acoustic guitar and croaked of love and its torments. He...

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