Leonard Cohen

When Leonard Cohen gave the concerts in England from which this album is culled, he had
moved his early, dry folk style to supercontinental address. Here was a North American
singer-songwriter diving headlong into the squirrelly intersections of pop and dramatic
music, exploring the vagaries of a topic that, for Cohen, was a poetic cosmos unto itself:
romance. This recording demonstrates how adeptly he recast that world. His six-... More >