| Various Artists / Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen |
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| Album: | Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Oct 2022 | |
| Label: | Blue Note Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2022-10-12 | Pull Date: | 2022-12-14 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 11 | Dec 4 | Nov 27 | Nov 20 | Nov 6 | Oct 30 | Oct 23 | Oct 16 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 16, 2023: | Down in the Basement You Want It Darker | 4. | Dec 08, 2022: | Traditions Hallelujah | |
| 2. | Dec 15, 2022: | Traditions Steer Your Way | 5. | Dec 03, 2022: | Music Casserole Suzanne | |
| 3. | Dec 09, 2022: | Hanging In The Boneyard Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye | 6. | Dec 02, 2022: | Hanging In The Boneyard Coming Back to You |
| Album Review |
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| Margy Kahn Reviewed 2022-10-12 | ||
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Vocal superstars take on the late Leonard Cohen’s iconic songs along with virtuoso jazz accompaniment; a perfect album for the season of Halloween, All Souls, and All Saints; artists got to choose which of the canon to cover so there is a lot of heart and soul in these renditions. If you like them and don’t know Leonard Cohen, check out his albums in the KZSU library FCC on Track 2 (“piss”); all other tracks are worth playing; favorite tracks *4, 9, 12 1–Steer Your Way (4:50)—Norah Jones sings a soft, intimate incantation with instrumentals to match FCC! 2–Here It is (5:14)—Peter Gabriel eerily channels Cohen’s bass register; with heavy instrumental jazz overtones; “piss” appears about a quarter of the way in 3—Suzanne (4:35)—Gregory Porter leans on the lyrics, giving this storied song more heft than Judy Collin’s hit cover from the 1970’s *4—Halleluja (6:21) —Sarah McLachlan uses her amazing voice to make this mega hit new 5—Avalanche (5:21) —Immanuel Wilkins uses heavy duty horn playing and riffs to cover this intense song; interesting but hard to know how it relates to Cohen’s words or even the original tune 6—Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye (4:21) — Luciana Souza’s rich voice adds depth to this elegy to lost love; the piano and horn add texture 7—Coming Back to You (3:42) —James Taylor channels Cohen’s bass; heartfelt, slow, cleanly articulated 8—You Want It Darker (5:05) — Iggy Pop takes this title song from Cohen’s last CD and gives it creaky voice and some other spooky vocal effects; but not Cohen’s weight; instrumentals add to the atmosphere *9—If It Be Your Will (5:27) —Mavis Staples sings this as a tender ballad; lovely instrumental touches too. 10—Seems So Long Ago, Nancy (5:10) —David Gray’s voice with horns and drums and plucked strings under and over this tragic tale 11—Famous Blue Raincoat (5:59)—Nathaniel Rateliff gives a kind of minimalist interpretation of this elegaic song—the horns add the emotion *12—Bird on a Wire (3:47) —Bill Frisell gives a beautiful instrumental rendition of this classic song | ||
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