Leírás
Pop, Rock, Pop Rock, 2CD kiadvány, 2020.
Az 1988-as hollandiai FM rádiós koncert teljes anyaga!
Speciális vendégként Jennifer Warnes szerepelt!
By the late 1980s Leonard Cohen was on the verge of giving up: broke, depressed and struggling with writer’s block. Although his last studio album, „Various Positions”, had been a critical success in Europe, Columbia Records had refused to release it in the US, a decision that inflicted significant damage upon Cohen’s career. Yet the album contained the seed of what would be a glorious comeback: Cohen had credited his long-time backing singer, Jennifer Warnes, as co-vocalist on „Various Positions”, and it was Warnes who eventually managed to lift him from his knees.
Warnes’ 1987 album „Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen” was a tribute to her mentor at a point where her own recording career was at an alltime high, and the record pitched Cohen back into the popular American consciousness, while new compositions he wrote for the album helped him overcome his writer’s block. These songs reappeared a year later, sung this time by Cohen, on a brand-new studio album: „I’m Your Man”.
„I’m Your Man” transformed the Leonard Cohen story. It presented him as a modern-sounding, contemporary artist with the most successful album that he had yet released, and in April 1988 he took „I’m Your Man” out on the road. The tour began in Europe, where the album was surging in the charts, and after an initial two weeks playing the major German cities, Cohen made his way down to The Netherlands for two performances at Amsterdam’s Music Theatre on the 18th and 19th of April. This recording comes from the opening night, when the entire event was broadcast on FM Radio. It is one of the finest Leonard Cohen concerts ever captured and demonstrates why it was so important that an artist seemingly discarded was so urgently resurrected.
Felvételek :
CD1.:
01. Dance Me To The End Of Love
02. Who By Fire
03. Ain’t No Cure For Love
04. The Law
05. Heart With No Companion
06. I’m Your Man
07. Coming Back To You
08. First We Take Manhattan
09. Chelsea Hotel #2
10. Tower Of Song
CD2.:
01. One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
02. Everybody Knows
03. There Is A War
04. Take This Waltz
05. Sisters Of Mercy
06. Bird On The Wire
07. Hallelujah
08. Hey That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
09. I Can’t Forget
10. Suzanne
11. So Long, Marianne
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