Dinner With Leonard, Suzanne, Ratso, And Roger Yesterday’s post, Leonard Cohen Declines Bob Dylan’s Invitation To Play In Rolling Thunder Revue, spotlighted the account from Larry (Ratso) Sloman’s “On the Road With Bob Dylan,” an entertaining and enlightening read about Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, of Leonard Cohen being fetched from his home in order [...]
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Leonard Cohen Hosts Joni Mitchell & Ratso At Home For Barbequed Ribs
July 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen Declines Bob Dylan’s Invitation To Play In Rolling Thunder Revue
July 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Leonard Cohen, Music
Leonard Cohen Watches Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Baez Perform Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue was less a conventional tour than a traveling carnival, replete with gypsies, cowboys, groupies, relatives (including Dylan’s mother), reporters, and various hangers-on, that camped at local motels to play a series of gigs at small to intermediate sized venues – and, for good [...]
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Bob Dylan’s “Brownsville Girl” Is On Leonard Cohen’s Jukebox
June 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Leonard Cohen
Biggest Influence on My Music – The jukebox. I lived beside jukeboxes all through the fifties. … I never knew who was singing. I never followed things that way. I still don’t. I wasn’t a student of music; I was a student of the restaurant I was in — and the waitresses. The music was [...]
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Picture Leonard Cohen Biking in Bratislava With Bob Dylan
June 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Leonard Cohen
To the reader: Consider this a cautionary tale of the madness that can overtake those sentenced to what seems to be 20 years of boredom awaiting the start of the 2010 iteration of the Leonard Cohen World Tour. Bob Dylan – Biker It began innocently enough with a LeonardCohenForum posting by liverpoolken entitled what does [...]
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Bob Dylan Covers Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”
May 10th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen Sings “Hallelujah” To Bob Dylan It’s a rather joyous song . I like very much the last verse. I remember singin’ it to Bob Dylan after his last concert in Paris. The morning after, I was having coffee with him and we traded lyrics. Dylan especially liked this last verse “And even though [...]
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The Leonard Cohen-Bob Dylan Thematic Nexus: Lost In The Rages Of Fragrance
May 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · Bagatelles, Leonard Cohen
lost in the rages of fragrance – From “The Window” by Leonard Cohen The Singer-Songwriter Scent Of Success Ongoing readers may recall the post, Leonard Cohen & The Sweet Smell Of Indifference, which focused on Cohen’s vision, as reported by Sleep66: Leonard once told me he was going to come out with his own cologne. [...]
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Bob Dylan & Bette Midler "Buckets Of Rain" Recording Sessions – New York 1975
April 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Music
Bette and Bob: Bootleg, Ballads, Banter, & Beyond In 1975, Bob Dylan and Bette Midler held a recording session which resulted in their duet of Dylan’s “Buckets of Rain,” a less than outstanding version of the song1 that became a track on Midler’s third studio album, Songs for the New Depression (released in early 1976 [...]
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Bob Dylan's "Tangled Up In Blue" Is On Leonard Cohen's Jukebox
April 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Leonard Cohen
Biggest Influence on My Music – The jukebox. I lived beside jukeboxes all through the fifties. … I never knew who was singing. I never followed things that way. I still don’t. I wasn’t a student of music; I was a student of the restaurant I was in — and the waitresses. The music was [...]
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Bob Dylan's "Play It Fucking Loud" – A Classic Moment In Rock And Roll
April 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Music
Make That Bob Dylan’s “Play It Fucking Loud” – A Classic Moment In Rock & Roll That May Or May Not Have Happened This is a Classic Moment In Rock And Roll. Forty-four years ago, Bob Dylan, defying those who demanded he reverse his self-transformation from folk music’s anointed successor to Woody Guthrie and Pete [...]
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Dylan's "I And I" Is On Leonard Cohen's Jukebox
April 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Leonard Cohen
Biggest Influence on My Music – The jukebox. I lived beside jukeboxes all through the fifties. … I never knew who was singing. I never followed things that way. I still don’t. I wasn’t a student of music; I was a student of the restaurant I was in — and the waitresses. The music was [...]
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