Title: A true poet...if only he could sing
Product review: Leonard Cohen is another of those songwriters whose work I have appreciated from a distance. I thought this might work as a sampler of his work, at least some of his early material. The words are sheer magic. Cohen can express emotional depth far more successfully than most writers and the tunes carry the words across. However, it seems that, Cohen, like Kristofferson, is better served when others interpret his music. There is a flat atonal sound to his singing that almost seems a separate entity from the emotion the songs are conveying. Sometimes it works like on "Famous Blue Raincoat" but most of the time I can't help but wish that someone else was singing these wonderful words. Despite this, the words do win out and this is still worth having.
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