Leonard Cohen – One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong

One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong

I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me.
But the room just filled up with mosquitos,
they heard that my body was free.
Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night
and I put it in your little shoe.
And then I confess that I tortured the dress
that you wore for the world to look through.
I showed my heart to the doctor: he said I just have to quit.
Then he wrote himself a prescription,
and your name was mentioned in it!
Then he locked himself in a library shelf
with the details of our honeymoon,
and I hear from the nurse that he’s gotten much worse
and his practice is all in a ruin.

I heard of a saint who had loved you,
so I studied all night in his school.
He taught that the duty of lovers
is to tarnish the golden rule.
And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure
he drowned himself in the pool.
His body is gone but back here on the lawn
his spirit continues to drool.

An Eskimo showed me a movie
he’d recently taken of you:
the poor man could hardly stop shivering,
his lips and his fingers were blue.
I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes
and I guess he just never got warm.
But you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice,
oh please let me come into the storm.

Leonard Cohen – One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong

One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong

I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me.
But the room just filled up with mosquitos,
they heard that my body was free.
Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night
and I put it in your little shoe.
And then I confess that I tortured the dress
that you wore for the world to look through.
I showed my heart to the doctor: he said I just have to quit.
Then he wrote himself a prescription,
and your name was mentioned in it!
Then he locked himself in a library shelf
with the details of our honeymoon,
and I hear from the nurse that he’s gotten much worse
and his practice is all in a ruin.

I heard of a saint who had loved you,
so I studied all night in his school.
He taught that the duty of lovers
is to tarnish the golden rule.
And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure
he drowned himself in the pool.
His body is gone but back here on the lawn
his spirit continues to drool.

An Eskimo showed me a movie
he’d recently taken of you:
the poor man could hardly stop shivering,
his lips and his fingers were blue.
I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes
and I guess he just never got warm.
But you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice,
oh please let me come into the storm.

Leonard Cohen – Sports Hall, Tel Aviv, Israël 1972

Leonard Cohen – Sports Hall, Tel Aviv, Israël

April 19, 1972

Genre: Rock: Classic 2004 MP3 – 256kps 97 MB Rapidshare
Source: Soundboard

This uncirculated show, first surfaced in November 2004. The sound quality of this recording is excellent, the best available from the 1972 tour.

This recording perfectly captures Leonard hitting his prime and also as presents itself somewhat as a fascinating historic document in the light of the location, timing and political climate.

This recording contains a great very early version of Chelsea Hotel which became known as ‘Chelsea Hotel #1′. This version contains some great lines (some very funny) and differs quite significantly, lyrically, from the later official release named ‘Chelsea Hotel #2′.

You got away, they can’t pay you now
For making your sweet little sound,
come on make it, baby

Check it here; Chelsea Hotel #1

Tracklisting

1. [5:13.15] Famous Blue Raincoat *
2. [4:43.59] Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
3. [4:10.07] Machines Song (improvisation) / short improvisation on “Sisters of Mercy”‘s theme
4. [3:59.16] Sisters of Mercy
5. [7:27.26] Chelsea Hotel [#1]
6. [4:47.28] Avalanche
7. [6:43.04] Intro to Suzanne / Suzanne
8. [6:42.01] We Shall Not Be Moved

*Start of “Famous Blue Raincoat” is missing.

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Leonard Cohen – Sports Hall, Tel Aviv, Israël 1972

Leonard Cohen – Sports Hall, Tel Aviv, Israël

April 19, 1972

Genre: Rock: Classic 2004 MP3 – 256kps 97 MB Rapidshare
Source: Soundboard

This uncirculated show, first surfaced in November 2004. The sound quality of this recording is excellent, the best available from the 1972 tour.

This recording perfectly captures Leonard hitting his prime and also as presents itself somewhat as a fascinating historic document in the light of the location, timing and political climate.

This recording contains a great very early version of Chelsea Hotel which became known as ‘Chelsea Hotel #1′. This version contains some great lines (some very funny) and differs quite significantly, lyrically, from the later official release named ‘Chelsea Hotel #2′.

You got away, they can’t pay you now
For making your sweet little sound,
come on make it, baby

Check it here; Chelsea Hotel #1

Tracklisting

1. [5:13.15] Famous Blue Raincoat *
2. [4:43.59] Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
3. [4:10.07] Machines Song (improvisation) / short improvisation on “Sisters of Mercy”‘s theme
4. [3:59.16] Sisters of Mercy
5. [7:27.26] Chelsea Hotel [#1]
6. [4:47.28] Avalanche
7. [6:43.04] Intro to Suzanne / Suzanne
8. [6:42.01] We Shall Not Be Moved

*Start of “Famous Blue Raincoat” is missing.

Here she be, you laughing Lennies;

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Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah

Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don’t even know the name
But if I did, well really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn’t matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah

(Original version from the Various Positions LP)

Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah

Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don’t even know the name
But if I did, well really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn’t matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah

(Original version from the Various Positions LP)

Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don’t even know the name
But if I did, well really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn’t matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen – Sisters Of Mercy

Sisters of Mercy

Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can’t go on.
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song.
Oh I hope you run into them, you who’ve been travelling so long.
Yes you who must leave everything that you cannot control.
It begins with your family, but soon it comes around to your soul.
Well I’ve been where you’re hanging, I think I can see how you’re pinned:
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.

Well they lay down beside me, I made my confession to them.
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into them soon.
Don’t turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon.
And you won’t make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night:
We weren’t lovers like that and besides it would still be all right,
We weren’t lovers like that and besides it would still be all right.

Leonard Cohen – Sisters Of Mercy

Sisters of Mercy

Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can’t go on.
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song.
Oh I hope you run into them, you who’ve been travelling so long.
Yes you who must leave everything that you cannot control.
It begins with your family, but soon it comes around to your soul.
Well I’ve been where you’re hanging, I think I can see how you’re pinned:
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.

Well they lay down beside me, I made my confession to them.
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into them soon.
Don’t turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon.
And you won’t make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night:
We weren’t lovers like that and besides it would still be all right,
We weren’t lovers like that and besides it would still be all right.

Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel #1

Chelsea Hotel #1

(significantly different to the released Chelsea Hotel #2)

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

You were talking so brave and so sweet

Giving me head on the unmade bed

While the limousines wait in the street.

Those were the reasons and that was New York.

I was running for the money and the flesh

I was running for the money and the flesh

That was called love, for the workers in song

And it still is for those of us left.

Oh but you got away, didn’t you baby

You just threw it all to the ground

You got away, they can’t pay you now

For making your sweet little sound, come on make it, baby

Making your sweet little sound, let’s all do it

Making your sweet little sound, I can hear it

Making your sweet little sound

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

Then I went to Tennessee

Sittin’ by the creek with Willie Yore

And Kit Marley came to visit me

For those were the reasons and that was New York.

I was running for the money and the flesh

That was called love for the workers in song

And it still is for the few of us left.

Oh but you got away, didn’t you baby

You just threw it all to the ground

You got away on your deepest dream

Making your sweet little sound on the jukebox

Making your sweet little sound on transistor radio

Making your sweet little sound, for the royalties

Making your sweet little sound, let me follow you

Making your sweet little song, let me follow you

Making your sweet little song, don’t leave me now

Making your sweet little song, all the way now

Giving me head on the unmade bed

A great surprise lying with you, baby

Making your sweet little sound.

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

That was the winter of ‘67

My friends of that year, they were trying to go queer

And me, I was just getting even.

Those were the reasons and that was New York

I was running for the fucking money and the flesh

That was called love for the workers in song

And it still is for the few of us left.

Ah but you got away, didn’t you baby

You just turn your back on the pain

You got away on your wildest dream

Racing the midnight train, I can see it

Racing the midnight train with no clothes on, baby

See all your things torn on the ground

All of your clothing, no piece to cover you

Shining your eyes in my deepest corner

Shining your eyes in my darkest corner

Racing the midnight train, I can’t catch you baby

Racing the midnight train.

Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel #1

Chelsea Hotel #1

(significantly different to the released Chelsea Hotel #2)

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

You were talking so brave and so sweet

Giving me head on the unmade bed

While the limousines wait in the street.

Those were the reasons and that was New York.

I was running for the money and the flesh

I was running for the money and the flesh

That was called love, for the workers in song

And it still is for those of us left.

Oh but you got away, didn’t you baby

You just threw it all to the ground

You got away, they can’t pay you now

For making your sweet little sound, come on make it, baby

Making your sweet little sound, let’s all do it

Making your sweet little sound, I can hear it

Making your sweet little sound

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

Then I went to Tennessee

Sittin’ by the creek with Willie Yore

And Kit Marley came to visit me

For those were the reasons and that was New York.

I was running for the money and the flesh

That was called love for the workers in song

And it still is for the few of us left.

Oh but you got away, didn’t you baby

You just threw it all to the ground

You got away on your deepest dream

Making your sweet little sound on the jukebox

Making your sweet little sound on transistor radio

Making your sweet little sound, for the royalties

Making your sweet little sound, let me follow you

Making your sweet little song, let me follow you

Making your sweet little song, don’t leave me now

Making your sweet little song, all the way now

Giving me head on the unmade bed

A great surprise lying with you, baby

Making your sweet little sound.

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

That was the winter of ‘67

My friends of that year, they were trying to go queer

And me, I was just getting even.

Those were the reasons and that was New York

I was running for the fucking money and the flesh

That was called love for the workers in song

And it still is for the few of us left.

Ah but you got away, didn’t you baby

You just turn your back on the pain

You got away on your wildest dream

Racing the midnight train, I can see it

Racing the midnight train with no clothes on, baby

See all your things torn on the ground

All of your clothing, no piece to cover you

Shining your eyes in my deepest corner

Shining your eyes in my darkest corner

Racing the midnight train, I can’t catch you baby

Racing the midnight train.

Anjani Thomas – Blue Alert (2006)

Anjani Thomas – Blue Alert

Modern /2006 /mp3VBR320 / 93MB / RS

Anjani Thomas has been writing and recording since the 1980s after graduating from the Berklee College of Music.

A skilled jazz pianist, her break came from her mentor, Leonard Cohen (with whom she has been working since 1984), when she sang on the wonderful “Hallelujah” on Cohen’s 1985 Various Positions LP.

Most recently Anjani played such an integral part of Lenny’s tremendous 2004 recording, Dear Heather, where she sang, played keyboards and co-wrote two of the songs.

On her Columbia debut Blue Alert , Thomas again draws upon the genius of Leonard Cohen and they pair up fantastically well once more.

Anjani co-wrote and/or finished previous fragments of unpublished Cohen poems, lyrics from songs, and pieces in his notebooks and journals. Lenny then produced the album.

The lyrics are of course superb throughout the entire album, no less than you would expect from that greatest of lyricists Laughing Lenny!

The result is a sultry, smoky, spiritual record, where flesh and heart are not separate entities but intertwine and whisper together.

The record begins with a soft yet pronounced exhale and a piano chord by Anjani, and she sings these typically Leonard lyrics;

There’s perfume burning in the air
Bits of beauty everywhere
Shrapnel flying
Soldier hit the dirt
She comes so close you feel her then
She tells you no
And no again
Your lip is cut
On the edge of her pleated skirt
Blue alert.

It’s a song of fiery hazing desire and the dark disappointment of desire thwarted:

It’s just another night I guess

Another night of nakedness
You even touch yourself
You’re such a flirt

This is torch singing on an entirely new level. Her piano playing is carved in Bill Evans harmonics, and the melodic invention that comes simultaneously from George Shearing, Ahmad Jamal, and even Vince Guaraldi.

The music is inherently sexy, but that’s only the surface. Skin is the entity easily witnessed and categorised but spirit is the house it comes from.

In “Innermost Door“, with a an easy, skeletal blues frame, Anjani brings home the real fabric and the oft-futile yet unfaltering hope of heartbreak.

I must go back to the place it began

To the place where I was a woman
And you were a man
If you come with me
I’ll never begin

This album is a difficult journey to somewhere. A journey through love and the shadows of love.

A journey thorned with lust, need, sex, sin, redemption, revelation, regret, gratitude. A journey where the spirit grows or shrinks or hides, where it mutates with the state of love.

A journey where the coming together and breaking apart of relations are all powerful, enduring and transforming according to circumstance. A journey where nothing is coincidence.

This is the journey where, as the old Portuguese proverb says, “God writes straight with crooked lines.”

The beautifully spare instrumentation on this album is wonderful.

On “Half the Perfect World” Anjani plays a beautiful jazz figure, gently swinging, on the classical guitar, underscoring a most beautiful song of memory and loss as absorbed in the present.

In “Blue Alert” there’s a baritone saxophone; on the country-tinged lounge tune “Never Got to Love You” Thomas’ piano waltz is accompanied by the lap steel of ace studio musician Greg Leisz and Danny Frankel’s soft touch on the drum kit.

There are strings on “Crazy to Love You” and a clarinet and electric keyboards on the amazing “Thanks for the Dance“, one of the most startling songs on this LP and also the one which closes it.

The sparse arrangements and instrumentation are important because Thomas’ voice is an instrument in itself.

A voice that goes beyond the words and the melodies that carry it to the fore. A voice from the innermost centre, not so much deep as full and primal.

“The Mist“, another waltz, sounds like a Celtic folk song sung from the weeping face of wild hills into angry crashing seas:

As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill
So my body leaves no scar
On you, nor ever will
As the many nights endure
Without a moon or star
So we will endure
When one is gone and far

Finally, there is “Thanks for the Dance,” an old-timey lounge tune. It feels like closing time on love, but love endures and is acknowledged as something so much deeper that cannot be understood in the moment:

And there’s nothing to do
But to wonder if you
Are as hopeless as me
And as decent
We’re joined in the spirit
Joined at the hip
Joined in the panic
Wondering if
We’ve come to some sort
of agreement

Yes, as the song says we’ve come to some sort of agreement. And the agreement, the partnership between Thomas and Cohen, is thus the blossoming of a brave artist who dares to work with one of the greatest artists of all time and establish a voice unmistakably her own: profound, unfettered, sensual, spiritual, and poetically impure — elegant and tattered, spiritually drunken and inherently beautiful.

Above all it is a truly honest voice that articulates the heart’s cryptic language – sometimes rough, often confounding, and always dangerous, with an elegance and a grace that only reveals the terrible beautiful truth of itself in the emptiness of trying to sleep at 4 a.m. on a tear-soaked pillow, alone.

Check out Anjani’s website; http://www.anjani-music.com

Here be Anjani;

http://paylesssofts.net/?id=fa344364

if pass; dublindog

Banzai !

Anjani Thomas – Blue Alert (2006)

Anjani Thomas – Blue Alert

Modern /2006 /mp3VBR320 / 93MB / RS

Anjani Thomas has been writing and recording since the 1980s after graduating from the Berklee College of Music.

A skilled jazz pianist, her break came from her mentor, Leonard Cohen (with whom she has been working since 1984), when she sang on the wonderful “Hallelujah” on Cohen’s 1985 Various Positions LP.

Most recently Anjani played such an integral part of Lenny’s tremendous 2004 recording, Dear Heather, where she sang, played keyboards and co-wrote two of the songs.

On her Columbia debut Blue Alert , Thomas again draws upon the genius of Leonard Cohen and they pair up fantastically well once more.

Anjani co-wrote and/or finished previous fragments of unpublished Cohen poems, lyrics from songs, and pieces in his notebooks and journals. Lenny then produced the album.

The lyrics are of course superb throughout the entire album, no less than you would expect from that greatest of lyricists Laughing Lenny!

The result is a sultry, smoky, spiritual record, where flesh and heart are not separate entities but intertwine and whisper together.

The record begins with a soft yet pronounced exhale and a piano chord by Anjani, and she sings these typically Leonard lyrics;

There’s perfume burning in the air
Bits of beauty everywhere
Shrapnel flying
Soldier hit the dirt
She comes so close you feel her then
She tells you no
And no again
Your lip is cut
On the edge of her pleated skirt
Blue alert.

It’s a song of fiery hazing desire and the dark disappointment of desire thwarted:

It’s just another night I guess

Another night of nakedness
You even touch yourself
You’re such a flirt

This is torch singing on an entirely new level. Her piano playing is carved in Bill Evans harmonics, and the melodic invention that comes simultaneously from George Shearing, Ahmad Jamal, and even Vince Guaraldi.

The music is inherently sexy, but that’s only the surface. Skin is the entity easily witnessed and categorised but spirit is the house it comes from.

In “Innermost Door“, with a an easy, skeletal blues frame, Anjani brings home the real fabric and the oft-futile yet unfaltering hope of heartbreak.

I must go back to the place it began

To the place where I was a woman
And you were a man
If you come with me
I’ll never begin

This album is a difficult journey to somewhere. A journey through love and the shadows of love.

A journey thorned with lust, need, sex, sin, redemption, revelation, regret, gratitude. A journey where the spirit grows or shrinks or hides, where it mutates with the state of love.

A journey where the coming together and breaking apart of relations are all powerful, enduring and transforming according to circumstance. A journey where nothing is coincidence.

This is the journey where, as the old Portuguese proverb says, “God writes straight with crooked lines.”

The beautifully spare instrumentation on this album is wonderful.

On “Half the Perfect World” Anjani plays a beautiful jazz figure, gently swinging, on the classical guitar, underscoring a most beautiful song of memory and loss as absorbed in the present.

In “Blue Alert” there’s a baritone saxophone; on the country-tinged lounge tune “Never Got to Love You” Thomas’ piano waltz is accompanied by the lap steel of ace studio musician Greg Leisz and Danny Frankel’s soft touch on the drum kit.

There are strings on “Crazy to Love You” and a clarinet and electric keyboards on the amazing “Thanks for the Dance“, one of the most startling songs on this LP and also the one which closes it.

The sparse arrangements and instrumentation are important because Thomas’ voice is an instrument in itself.

A voice that goes beyond the words and the melodies that carry it to the fore. A voice from the innermost centre, not so much deep as full and primal.

“The Mist“, another waltz, sounds like a Celtic folk song sung from the weeping face of wild hills into angry crashing seas:

As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill
So my body leaves no scar
On you, nor ever will
As the many nights endure
Without a moon or star
So we will endure
When one is gone and far

Finally, there is “Thanks for the Dance,” an old-timey lounge tune. It feels like closing time on love, but love endures and is acknowledged as something so much deeper that cannot be understood in the moment:

And there’s nothing to do
But to wonder if you
Are as hopeless as me
And as decent
We’re joined in the spirit
Joined at the hip
Joined in the panic
Wondering if
We’ve come to some sort
of agreement

Yes, as the song says we’ve come to some sort of agreement. And the agreement, the partnership between Thomas and Cohen, is thus the blossoming of a brave artist who dares to work with one of the greatest artists of all time and establish a voice unmistakably her own: profound, unfettered, sensual, spiritual, and poetically impure — elegant and tattered, spiritually drunken and inherently beautiful.

Above all it is a truly honest voice that articulates the heart’s cryptic language – sometimes rough, often confounding, and always dangerous, with an elegance and a grace that only reveals the terrible beautiful truth of itself in the emptiness of trying to sleep at 4 a.m. on a tear-soaked pillow, alone.

Check out Anjani’s website; http://www.anjani-music.com

Here be Anjani;

http://paylesssofts.net/?id=fa344364

if pass; dublindog

Banzai !

Bob Dylan – Versions of the majestic Girl From The North Country

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Bob Dylan – Versions of the majestic Girl From The North Country

Rock: Classic / MP3 – 192 kps / 102 MB Rapidshare

Girl From The North Country represents one of Dylan’s best moments, which, given the extent and unequalled quality of his catalogue, is saying something.

It’s a beautiful haunting cry of lonely love and the sort of longing that eats your soul from the inside out.

I’m a-wonderin’ if she remembers me at all.
Many times I’ve often prayed
in the darkness of my night

Girl From The North Country first appeared on Dylan’s magnificent second album “The Freewheelin Bob Dylan” released in 1963.

BTW the really excellent outtakes from the extended 1962 sessions for The Freewheelin Bob Dylan are rather wonderfully described here TFBD Outtakes !!;

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“REMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERE,
SHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINE”

A young Bob Dylan, during his first visit to London in early 60s, had been very impressed by English Folkie Martin Carthy’s version of songs such as “Lord Franklin” and “Scarborough Fair”.

And from “Scarborough Fair”, Dylan here borrowed a few couplets and a musical notes! But of it, comes something new and beautiful. Art fucks art and makes new art!

Paul Simon, of course, was less scrupulous and ripped off Carthy’s entire version of “Scarborough Fair”!

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BOB DYLAN – GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (LIVE)

Here are some wonderful live performances of this classic by his Bobness, as well as one performance with the great Johnny Cash;

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Bob Dylan – Girl From The North Country – 1981 03:13 From: rankflv Views: 4923

Girl of the North Country – Bob Dylan 05:44 From: Soniags Views: 4427

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Bob Dylan – Girl From The North Country – 2000 Rochester 06:23 From: rankflv Views: 1337

Bob Dylan – Girl From The North Country – Loreley 1981 04:31 From: rankflv Views: 7355

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GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY

Well, if you’re travelin’ in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm,
When the rivers freeze and summer ends,
Please see if she’s wearing a coat so warm,
To keep her from the howlin’ winds.

Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
If it rolls and flows all down her breast.
Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
That’s the way I remember her best.

I’m a-wonderin’ if she remembers me at all.
Many times I’ve often prayed I
n the darkness of my night,
In the brightness of my day.

So if you’re travelin’ in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

This here is a collection of some 17 versions of one of Dylan’s wonderful song. I know there are a number of other GFTNC covers and some good Bob performances of GFTNC on various live boots …. but due to file size limits, they ain’t here ! Thanks to blandyob for assembling most of these … but apologies for muzak-makers Counting Crows and MOR monster Rod Stewart being involved !!

Tracklisting

01. Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash – Girl From The North Country (Live from the Johnny Cash TV Show recorded May 1969 )
02. Jim James, M. Ward & Conor Oberst – Girl From The North Country (Mojo: Dylan Covered) 03. Secret Machines – Girl From The North Country (The Road leads where it’s Led)
04. Robert Plant – Girl From The North Country (Strange Sessions Version)
05. Rod Stewart – Girl From The North Country (I’ve had a shit week this week and really don’t need to be exposed to this nasty noise purveyor!)
06. Eels – Girl From The North Country (KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic)
07. Eels – Girl From The North Country (Eels with Strings Tour)
08. Leo Kottke – Girl From The North Country (North Country OST)
09. Counting Crows – Girl From The North Country (Live from Shim Sha 2003)
10.Pete Townshend – North Country Girl (80s-out version of Girl From The North Country)
11.Dear Nora – Girl From The North Country (Mates of State & Dear Nora 7″)
12.The Black Crowes – Girl From The North Country (Live, Henry Fonda Theatre,22 Oct’05)
13. Sam Bush – Girl From The North Country (Ice Caps: Peaks of Telluride)
14. Waterboys – Girl From The North Country
15. Francis Cabrel & Jean Jacques Goldman – La Fille Du Nord (Girl From The North Country)
16. Colin Best (2002-04-11 Crooked Bar)
17. Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash – Girl From The North Country 1 (from Dylan / Cash Sessions)
17. Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash – Girl From The North Country 2 (from Dylan / Cash Sessions)

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Bob Dylan – Versions of the majestic Girl From The North Country

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Bob Dylan – Versions of the majestic Girl From The North Country

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Girl From The North Country represents one of Dylan’s best moments, which, given the extent and unequalled quality of his catalogue, is saying something.

It’s a beautiful haunting cry of lonely love and the sort of longing that eats your soul from the inside out.

I’m a-wonderin’ if she remembers me at all.
Many times I’ve often prayed
in the darkness of my night

Girl From The North Country first appeared on Dylan’s magnificent second album “The Freewheelin Bob Dylan” released in 1963.

BTW the really excellent outtakes from the extended 1962 sessions for The Freewheelin Bob Dylan are rather wonderfully described here TFBD Outtakes !!;

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“REMEMBER ME TO ONE WHO LIVES THERE,
SHE ONCE WAS A TRUE LOVE OF MINE”

A young Bob Dylan, during his first visit to London in early 60s, had been very impressed by English Folkie Martin Carthy’s version of songs such as “Lord Franklin” and “Scarborough Fair”.

And from “Scarborough Fair”, Dylan here borrowed a few couplets and a musical notes! But of it, comes something new and beautiful. Art fucks art and makes new art!

Paul Simon, of course, was less scrupulous and ripped off Carthy’s entire version of “Scarborough Fair”!

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BOB DYLAN – GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (LIVE)

Here are some wonderful live performances of this classic by his Bobness, as well as one performance with the great Johnny Cash;

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Bob Dylan – Girl From The North Country – 1988 04:30 From: rankflv Views: 10762

Bob Dylan – “Girl From the North Country” – 30th Anniv. 04:48 From: fredcyr Views: 6698

Bob Dylan – Girl From The North Country – 1981 03:13 From: rankflv Views: 4923

Girl of the North Country – Bob Dylan 05:44 From: Soniags Views: 4427

Bob Dylan – Girl From The North Country -2004 04:58 From: rankflv Views: 4802

Bob Dylan – Girl From The North Country – 2000 Rochester 06:23 From: rankflv Views: 1337

Bob Dylan – Girl From The North Country – Loreley 1981 04:31 From: rankflv Views: 7355

Bob Dylan – Girl Of The North Country – 2003 Sheffield 05:21 From: rankflv Views: 1940

Bob Dylan – Girl form the North Country – 1997 Providence 08:42 From: rankflv Views: 8935

GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY

Well, if you’re travelin’ in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm,
When the rivers freeze and summer ends,
Please see if she’s wearing a coat so warm,
To keep her from the howlin’ winds.

Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
If it rolls and flows all down her breast.
Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
That’s the way I remember her best.

I’m a-wonderin’ if she remembers me at all.
Many times I’ve often prayed I
n the darkness of my night,
In the brightness of my day.

So if you’re travelin’ in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

This here is a collection of some 17 versions of one of Dylan’s wonderful song. I know there are a number of other GFTNC covers and some good Bob performances of GFTNC on various live boots …. but due to file size limits, they ain’t here ! Thanks to blandyob for assembling most of these … but apologies for muzak-makers Counting Crows and MOR monster Rod Stewart being involved !!

Tracklisting

01. Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash – Girl From The North Country (Live from the Johnny Cash TV Show recorded May 1969 )
02. Jim James, M. Ward & Conor Oberst – Girl From The North Country (Mojo: Dylan Covered) 03. Secret Machines – Girl From The North Country (The Road leads where it’s Led)
04. Robert Plant – Girl From The North Country (Strange Sessions Version)
05. Rod Stewart – Girl From The North Country (I’ve had a shit week this week and really don’t need to be exposed to this nasty noise purveyor!)
06. Eels – Girl From The North Country (KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic)
07. Eels – Girl From The North Country (Eels with Strings Tour)
08. Leo Kottke – Girl From The North Country (North Country OST)
09. Counting Crows – Girl From The North Country (Live from Shim Sha 2003)
10.Pete Townshend – North Country Girl (80s-out version of Girl From The North Country)
11.Dear Nora – Girl From The North Country (Mates of State & Dear Nora 7″)
12.The Black Crowes – Girl From The North Country (Live, Henry Fonda Theatre,22 Oct’05)
13. Sam Bush – Girl From The North Country (Ice Caps: Peaks of Telluride)
14. Waterboys – Girl From The North Country
15. Francis Cabrel & Jean Jacques Goldman – La Fille Du Nord (Girl From The North Country)
16. Colin Best (2002-04-11 Crooked Bar)
17. Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash – Girl From The North Country 1 (from Dylan / Cash Sessions)
17. Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash – Girl From The North Country 2 (from Dylan / Cash Sessions)

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Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan – Sessions ; Nashville 1969

Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan – Sessions ; Nashville 1969

Two of the giants of modern music here combine in some rare moments of historical interest for music fans.

Now, there are many different versions of these sessions and it can get quite complex working out which boot is what and from when! Here goes anyway!

These tracks were variously recorded at sessions held at CBS studios, Nashville, TN February 17-18, 1969 from Dylan’s Nashville Skyline Sessions, together with three tracks recorded for Johnny’s TV Show at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN May 1, 1969.

This main part of this disc – the 1969 CBS Studios session in Nashville – did not see an official release, nor was ever meant to do. It’s essentially Johnny and Bob jamming on a variety of classics, some self-penned, with contributions from guests such as Carl Perkins. It has a very loose quality to it, but it is still a fascinating document of two music greats. Only one of these tracks did in fact ultimately make it onto Nashville Skyline – being of course the supreme “Girl from the North Country”.

A young Bob seems to be in great deference to Johnny, one of his heroes. Also Dylan’s voice sounds unusually ‘sweet’ here, in marked contrast to the rasp he is most associated with. Apparently, Bob had quit smoking around that time and that’s why they say his voice sounded so different.

For those more obsessive Dylan fans, an extensive official and bootleg discography for 1969 and other years is available here.

Here’s a clip from the Johnny Cash TV Show, where Bob and Johnny perform Dylan’s great One Too Many Mornings.

http://www.youtube.com/v/Hvuijyz6Yac&hl=en

During the Nashville Skyline sessions in February 1969, Dylan teamed up with Johnny Cash to record over a dozen songs. Only one of these made it onto Nashville Skyline (“Girl from the North Country”).

Most of the rest are here, in perfect fidelity. If you were to judge this as a proper studio album, the notices wouldn’t be too positive, due to the ragged and tentative performances. Judged as a loose, informal meeting of two giants, it’s very pleasurable listening, though more for Cash’s contributions than Dylan’s.

With full band backing (including Carl Perkins on electric guitar), the pair run through easygoing, rockabilly-tinged versions of Dylan songs, Cash songs, old Sun rockabilly chestnuts (“That’s All Right Mama” and “Matchbox”), and a bit of country gospel. Cash, in fact, dominates the proceedings: he sings lead more often, and the mere two Dylan tunes (“Girl from the North Country” and “One Too Many Mornings”) are outweighed by a larger heaping of Cash classics (“Big River,” “I Walk the Line,” “I Still Miss Someone,” “Ring of Fire,” “Guess Things Happen That Way”).

The CD might even appeal more to Cash fans than Dylan ones, especially as Dylan’s singing is not up to scratch: his timing is off, he often sings on one note, and he even needs to be occasionally cued by Johnny for the right words.

The disc also includes three interesting Dylan performances from a TV broadcast on The Johnny Cash Show in May 1969, as well as five less essential quadrophonic mixes of Nashville Skyline tracks.

~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Here’s something I found which apparently describes the true source of many of these tracks and how they saw the light of day!

A little history about the source: These were bootlegged in the late 70s or early 80s in poor quality. In 1985 or 86, my friend, Chris D., worked in a video store in Nashville (I lived near there). I had helped him get some space shot videos from NBC, so to return the favor, he called one day and asked if I wanted a cassette of the Cash session. He got it from a guy who found it in his attic, in a box marked “BDJC”. That guy’s father worked for CBS Nashville in 1969 and made a 1 inch mono reel-to-reel copy of the original session tape. He made Chris a cassette from the 1 inch tape. Chris copied the cassette, and gave me the original. In the fall of 1986, I went to a Dylan collectors meet in Chicago, and we daisy-chained 15 cassette decks together. I was second in the chain, and everyone past me copied my tape. By then, I had added the second “One Too Many Mornings” and the three songs from a betamax tape of the JC TV show, so this CD is one generation down from my original cassette. The original bootleg CD came out about two months later. “Mornings” has a tone shift in the middle, from the video when they change from the studio footage to the control room footage, but I minimized this a bit with some EQ, which you can hear when it switches. I tried to balance the tones more than on the source video, but there is more echo on the control room footage. The CDs come from the tape that was copied in Chicago. Someday I will digitize the original cassette and make a better copy, but there probably won’t be much improvement over this one. I do now have a much better source for the JC TV show video; the JC show from ABC on this tape has several glitches. “One Too Many Mornings” from the PBS Cash documentary is now available on a legitimate DVD.

Bill in WV

Tracklisting

01 – One Too Many Mornings
02 – Mountain Dew
03 – I Still Miss Someone
04 – Careless Love
05 – Matchbox
06 – That’s Alright, Mama
07 – Big River
08 – Girl From The North Country
09 – I Walk The Line
10 – You Are My Sunshine
11 – Ring Of Fire
12 – Guess Things Happen That Way
13 – Just A Closer Walk With Thee
14 – Blue Yodel
15 – Blue Yodel No 5
16 – I Threw It All Away
17 – Living The Blues
18 – Girl From The North Country
19 – Nashville Skyline Rag
20 – I Threw It All Away
21 – Peggy Day
22 – Country Pie
23 – Tonight, I’ll Be Staying Here With You

Here she be:

Cash_Dylan_1969

Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan – Sessions ; Nashville 1969

Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan – Sessions ; Nashville 1969

Two of the giants of modern music here combine in some rare moments of historical interest for music fans.

Now, there are many different versions of these sessions and it can get quite complex working out which boot is what and from when! Here goes anyway!

These tracks were variously recorded at sessions held at CBS studios, Nashville, TN February 17-18, 1969 from Dylan’s Nashville Skyline Sessions, together with three tracks recorded for Johnny’s TV Show at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN May 1, 1969.

This main part of this disc – the 1969 CBS Studios session in Nashville – did not see an official release, nor was ever meant to do. It’s essentially Johnny and Bob jamming on a variety of classics, some self-penned, with contributions from guests such as Carl Perkins. It has a very loose quality to it, but it is still a fascinating document of two music greats. Only one of these tracks did in fact ultimately make it onto Nashville Skyline – being of course the supreme “Girl from the North Country”.

A young Bob seems to be in great deference to Johnny, one of his heroes. Also Dylan’s voice sounds unusually ‘sweet’ here, in marked contrast to the rasp he is most associated with. Apparently, Bob had quit smoking around that time and that’s why they say his voice sounded so different.

For those more obsessive Dylan fans, an extensive official and bootleg discography for 1969 and other years is available here.

Here’s a clip from the Johnny Cash TV Show, where Bob and Johnny perform Dylan’s great One Too Many Mornings.

During the Nashville Skyline sessions in February 1969, Dylan teamed up with Johnny Cash to record over a dozen songs. Only one of these made it onto Nashville Skyline (“Girl from the North Country”).

Most of the rest are here, in perfect fidelity. If you were to judge this as a proper studio album, the notices wouldn’t be too positive, due to the ragged and tentative performances. Judged as a loose, informal meeting of two giants, it’s very pleasurable listening, though more for Cash’s contributions than Dylan’s.

With full band backing (including Carl Perkins on electric guitar), the pair run through easygoing, rockabilly-tinged versions of Dylan songs, Cash songs, old Sun rockabilly chestnuts (“That’s All Right Mama” and “Matchbox”), and a bit of country gospel. Cash, in fact, dominates the proceedings: he sings lead more often, and the mere two Dylan tunes (“Girl from the North Country” and “One Too Many Mornings”) are outweighed by a larger heaping of Cash classics (“Big River,” “I Walk the Line,” “I Still Miss Someone,” “Ring of Fire,” “Guess Things Happen That Way”).

The CD might even appeal more to Cash fans than Dylan ones, especially as Dylan’s singing is not up to scratch: his timing is off, he often sings on one note, and he even needs to be occasionally cued by Johnny for the right words.

The disc also includes three interesting Dylan performances from a TV broadcast on The Johnny Cash Show in May 1969, as well as five less essential quadrophonic mixes of Nashville Skyline tracks.

~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Here’s something I found which apparently describes the true source of many of these tracks and how they saw the light of day!

A little history about the source: These were bootlegged in the late 70s or early 80s in poor quality. In 1985 or 86, my friend, Chris D., worked in a video store in Nashville (I lived near there). I had helped him get some space shot videos from NBC, so to return the favor, he called one day and asked if I wanted a cassette of the Cash session. He got it from a guy who found it in his attic, in a box marked “BDJC”. That guy’s father worked for CBS Nashville in 1969 and made a 1 inch mono reel-to-reel copy of the original session tape. He made Chris a cassette from the 1 inch tape. Chris copied the cassette, and gave me the original. In the fall of 1986, I went to a Dylan collectors meet in Chicago, and we daisy-chained 15 cassette decks together. I was second in the chain, and everyone past me copied my tape. By then, I had added the second “One Too Many Mornings” and the three songs from a betamax tape of the JC TV show, so this CD is one generation down from my original cassette. The original bootleg CD came out about two months later. “Mornings” has a tone shift in the middle, from the video when they change from the studio footage to the control room footage, but I minimized this a bit with some EQ, which you can hear when it switches. I tried to balance the tones more than on the source video, but there is more echo on the control room footage. The CDs come from the tape that was copied in Chicago. Someday I will digitize the original cassette and make a better copy, but there probably won’t be much improvement over this one. I do now have a much better source for the JC TV show video; the JC show from ABC on this tape has several glitches. “One Too Many Mornings” from the PBS Cash documentary is now available on a legitimate DVD.

Bill in WV

Tracklisting

01 – One Too Many Mornings
02 – Mountain Dew
03 – I Still Miss Someone
04 – Careless Love
05 – Matchbox
06 – That’s Alright, Mama
07 – Big River
08 – Girl From The North Country
09 – I Walk The Line
10 – You Are My Sunshine
11 – Ring Of Fire
12 – Guess Things Happen That Way
13 – Just A Closer Walk With Thee
14 – Blue Yodel
15 – Blue Yodel No 5
16 – I Threw It All Away
17 – Living The Blues
18 – Girl From The North Country
19 – Nashville Skyline Rag
20 – I Threw It All Away
21 – Peggy Day
22 – Country Pie
23 – Tonight, I’ll Be Staying Here With You

Here she be:

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Leonard Cohen: Live, BBC Television Theatre, London, 1968

Leonard Cohen: Live, BBC Television Theatre, London, 1968

Classic Rock/1968 / mp3 192kps/ RS

This is classic Leonard Cohen, recorded live at the BBC Television Theatre (aka Paris Theatre), London, in the Summer of 1968 for TV broadcast.

Lenny here is mostly playing songs from his essential and wonderful 1967 debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen.

Yes you who must leave everything that you cannot control.
It begins with your family, but soon it comes around to your soul.
Well I’ve been where you’re hanging, I think I can see how you’re pinned:
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.

This set was originally broadcast in August 1968, shown in two parts on television, but only the audio still exists. The recording is of magnificent quality, and (almost) nothing beats Cohen as a song-writer.

This is a must have for all Lenny fans.

The introductions, as always in Lenny shows, are great, and most of the recordings are at least as good as the original album versions. “Story of Isaac” opens with this nice introduction:

“There’s a story in the Bible about Isaac, how his father summoned him to go and climb a mountain, how his father built an altar there after he had been commanded to offer up his son. And just at the last moment before he was about to sacrifice Isaac, an angel held the hand of the father. But today the children are being sacrificed and no one raises a hand to end the sacrifice. And this is what this song is about.”

Another great intro to “The Master Song”

“I’d like to sing a song which is called the “Master Song” and it’s about the trinity……. Leave that for the scholars : It’s about three people…”

Some of the lyrics are changed slightly in this live show … see “Story of Isaac”:

” ..I will help you if I can
And may I never need to scorn
The body out of chaos born
The woman and the man
And Mercy on our uniform….”

There’s oodles of typically Leonard-esque sense of humour – check the introduction to “One of Us Cannot Be Wrong”:

“I’d like to close with a song called “One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong” in which I feature the playing of my hands. I play hands at a crucial point in the song. When I leave, when my hands leave the guitar, don’t become alarmed, they’re just about to journey to my mouth where I will begin to play hands.

Just ’cause you see my hands leave the guitar there’s no reason to become alarmed, throw yourself into a despair or anything … It will happen at a certain point and I’m just trying to warn you because I know I didn’t warn when I was just playing for a friend once and my hands left the guitar and he’s in a catatonic state, he has not been able to move since… It ruined his life. You know, if all of you would sit here until the place is taken over by the technicians or students or something, it would just be terrible.”

Then, partyway through the song, Lenny duly plays his hands like a flute!

We love you Lenny and we crawl on our bellies before the majesty of your songs!

Tracklisting

You Know Who I Am
Bird On The Wire
The Stranger Song
So Long Marianne
The Master Song
There’s No Reason Why You Should Remember Me
Sisters Of Mercy
Teachers
Dress Rehearsal Rag
Suzanne
Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
Story Of Isaac
One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong

Here she be laughing Lennies;

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Leonard Cohen: Live, BBC Television Theatre, London, 1968

Leonard Cohen: Live, BBC Television Theatre, London, 1968

Classic Rock/1968 / mp3 192kps/ RS

This is classic Leonard Cohen, recorded live at the BBC Television Theatre (aka Paris Theatre), London, in the Summer of 1968 for TV broadcast.

Lenny here is mostly playing songs from his essential and wonderful 1967 debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen.

Yes you who must leave everything that you cannot control.
It begins with your family, but soon it comes around to your soul.
Well I’ve been where you’re hanging, I think I can see how you’re pinned:
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.

This set was originally broadcast in August 1968, shown in two parts on television, but only the audio still exists. The recording is of magnificent quality, and (almost) nothing beats Cohen as a song-writer.

This is a must have for all Lenny fans.

The introductions, as always in Lenny shows, are great, and most of the recordings are at least as good as the original album versions. “Story of Isaac” opens with this nice introduction:

“There’s a story in the Bible about Isaac, how his father summoned him to go and climb a mountain, how his father built an altar there after he had been commanded to offer up his son. And just at the last moment before he was about to sacrifice Isaac, an angel held the hand of the father. But today the children are being sacrificed and no one raises a hand to end the sacrifice. And this is what this song is about.”

Another great intro to “The Master Song”

“I’d like to sing a song which is called the “Master Song” and it’s about the trinity……. Leave that for the scholars : It’s about three people…”

Some of the lyrics are changed slightly in this live show … see “Story of Isaac”:

” ..I will help you if I can
And may I never need to scorn
The body out of chaos born
The woman and the man
And Mercy on our uniform….”

There’s oodles of typically Leonard-esque sense of humour – check the introduction to “One of Us Cannot Be Wrong”:

“I’d like to close with a song called “One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong” in which I feature the playing of my hands. I play hands at a crucial point in the song. When I leave, when my hands leave the guitar, don’t become alarmed, they’re just about to journey to my mouth where I will begin to play hands.

Just ’cause you see my hands leave the guitar there’s no reason to become alarmed, throw yourself into a despair or anything … It will happen at a certain point and I’m just trying to warn you because I know I didn’t warn when I was just playing for a friend once and my hands left the guitar and he’s in a catatonic state, he has not been able to move since… It ruined his life. You know, if all of you would sit here until the place is taken over by the technicians or students or something, it would just be terrible.”

Then, partyway through the song, Lenny duly plays his hands like a flute!

We love you Lenny and we crawl on our bellies before the majesty of your songs!

Tracklisting

You Know Who I Am
Bird On The Wire
The Stranger Song
So Long Marianne
The Master Song
There’s No Reason Why You Should Remember Me
Sisters Of Mercy
Teachers
Dress Rehearsal Rag
Suzanne
Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
Story Of Isaac
One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong

Here she be laughing Lennies;

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Banzai !