2024 Charity Shop Purchases # 60 - Leonard Cohen - New Skin For the Old Ceremony
This week we are going as far back as 1974 with Leonard Cohen's 4th studio album New Skin for the Old Ceremony. Back to the time when he was still under the illusion that he could sing rather than croon.
Amazon describes it as telling intensely personal stories, with tales of love, loss, regret and a degree of political activism, each verse feels lovingly crafted. According to Wiki on this album, he begins to evolve away from the rawer sound of his earlier albums, with violas, mandolins, banjos, guitars ,percussion and other instruments giving the album a more orchestrated (but nevertheless spare) sound
Chelsea Hotel#2 is apparently about a fleeting liaison he had there with Janis Joplin
The CD is part of one of those old 2 x CD packages which came in a jewel case about an inch thick and which take up a lot of room on the shelves. The other CD will conclude this series next Sunday.
"...sing rather than croon" Ouch! I don't know that much of his post 90s stuff but I get a sense of what you mean.
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