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Sunday, 1 September 2024

Laughing Len Sunday - Ten New Songs

 


2024 Charity Shop Purchases # 59 - Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs

You may or may not be relieved to hear that we are now over half way there to completing this mini series.

There is no chronological logic to this series. Rather they are plucked from the shelves at random. We started with 1979's Recent Songs, his 6th and then 2012's Old Ideas his 12th.

Today we are featuring Ten New Songs his 10th album from 2001 and his first in 9 years and as always on the Columbia label. It was co-written and produced by Sharon Robinson and I'm guessing that it is she who is accompanying him on the cover.

The album was number 1 in Poland and Norway and was also well received elsewhere with Steven Chean from Rolling Stone writing that the album  manages to sustain loss's fragile beauty like never before and might just be the Cohen's most exquisite ode yet to the midnight hour

Enough of that as I know you are desperate to get to the songs, In My Secret Life is the album's opener and first single.

For my second offering I have chosen Here it Is solely because it was covered by Jonathan Richman  on his album Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild.


Leonard Cohen - In My Secret Life

Leonard Cohen - Here It Is






1 comment:

  1. After 9 years away you would have thought they could do better than a cover taken in a photo booth

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