JENNIFER WARNES Famous Blue Raincoat LP SEALED L. Cohen

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.......This is a sealed, JENNIFER WARNES, Famous Blue Raincoat, The Songs of Leonard Cohen...............1986 Cyprus Records A&MYL 0100.....There is a cut near the upper right corner of the record jacket. However, the item up for bidding is sealed & has never been played.................................. 1 First We Take Manhattan 2 Bird on a Wire 3 Famous Blue Raincoat 4 Joan of Arc 5 Ain't No Cure for Love 6 Coming Back to You 7 Song of Bernadette 8 A Singer Must Die 9 Came So Far for Beauty..................From Allmusic.com.....by William Ruhlmann....... Jennifer Warnes was familiar with Leonard Cohen from a tour of duty as one of his backup singers in the early '70s, but this collection of Cohen's songs must have shocked her AM radio fans who knew her from her '70s country-pop hits and her movie themes, if they were even able to connect the woman who sang "It's the right time of the night for makin' love" with the one who declared "First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin" over stinging guitar work by Stevie Ray Vaughan on the opening track here. As that pairing suggests, Warnes wisely took a tougher, more contemporary approach to the arrangements than such past Cohen interpreters as Judy Collins used to. Where other singers tended to geld Cohen's often disturbingly revealing poetry, Warnes, working with the composer himself and introducing a couple of great new songs ("First We Take Manhattan" and "Song of Bernadette," which she co-wrote), matched his own versions. The high point may have been the Warnes-Cohen duet on "Joan of Arc," but the album was consistently impressive. And it went a long way toward reestablishing Cohen, whose reputation was in a minor eclipse in the mid-'80s. A year later, with the way paved for him, he released his brilliant comeback album I'm Your Man. For Warnes, the album meant her first taste of real critical success: suddenly a singer who had seemed like a second-rate Linda Ronstadt now appeared to be a first-class interpretive artist. Good luck bidding. Please email me with any questions. .........................Check out other current EL SUPRIMO auctions or my shop in Baltimore for more great vinyl rarities. All open vinyl is cleaned with Vpi Record Cleaning Machine. PLEASE EMAIL ME FOR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING RATES....... No refund for lost or damaged items in POSTAL SERVICE without INSURANCE......Sorry for any glare from light in the photos.