I am usually not someone who likes to buy cover albums, but "Famous Blue Raincoat" by Jennifer Warnes is the one exception to the rule.  Others have commented on the great audio and recording quality to this album, but I enjoy it more simply because the way that Warnes interprets these great songs of one of the greatest songwriters ever in Leonard Cohen.  And Warnes is the PERFECT person to do these songs as she has sung background vocals on many Cohen songs in the past (most of the "Various Positions" album and later on the "I'm Your Man" album for example), so she knows Cohen, IMO, as well as anybody and that includes other interpreters of his works like Judy Collins.  Her duet with Cohen on "Joan of Arc" is in a word, otherworldly.  It is really cool how Warnes sings the "Joan of Arc" parts while Cohen sings the "fire" parts.  Other highlights include the title track, "Bird on a Wire", "Came So Far From Beauty", and the new song that Cohen and Warnes wrote together, "Song of Bernadette".