Jennifer Warnes Famous Blue Raincoat (The Songs Of Leonard Cohen) LP 1986 NM

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Jennifer Warnes

Famous Blue Raincoat (The Songs Of Leonard Cohen)

Label:Attic LAT 1227, Cypress Records LAT 1227  Format:Vinyl, LP, Album 
Country:Canada  Released:1986  Genre:Rock, Pop  Style:Soft Rock, Vocal, Ballad

AllMusic: 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.

Tracklist

A1 First We Take Manhattan

Bass, Guitar – Roscoe Beck

Drums – Vinnie Colaiuta

Guitar – Robben Ford, Stevie Ray Vaughn

Harmony Vocals – Jennifer Warnes

Percussion – Lenny Castro

Synthesizer – Russell Ferrante

Synthesizer, Programmed By [Programing] – Gary Chang

3:44

A2 Bird On A Wire

Bass – Jorge Calderon

Drums – Vinnie Colaiuta

Guitar – Robben Ford

Mixed By – George Massenburg

Percussion – Lenny Castro

Saxophone – "Reverend" Dave Boruff

Shaker – Larry Brown

Synthesizer – Bill Ginn, William "Smitty" Smith

Vocals [SIngers] – Jennifer Warnes, Kal David, Willie Greene Jr.

4:42

A3 Famous Blue Raincoat

Double Bass [String Bass] – Roscoe Beck

Mixed By – George Massenburg

Piano, Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Strings] – Bill Ginn

Strings, Cello – Larry Corbett, Suzie Katayama

Strings, Viola – Novi Novog

Strings, Violin – Barbara Porter

Strings, Violin [First] – Sid Page

Tenor Saxophone – Paul Ostermayer

5:33

A4 Joan Of Arc

Choir [Angel Choir] – Greg Prestopino, Jennifer Warnes

Drums – Vinnie Colaiuta

Guitar [Guitars], Bass [Basses], Synthesizer [Additional] – Roscoe Beck

Mixed By – Larry Brown

Piano, Synthesizer – Bill Ginn

Synthesizer – Russell Ferrante

Tambourine – Larry Brown

Vocals [Duet], Guest – Leonard Cohen

7:47

B1 Ain't No Cure For Love

Drums – Vinnie Colaiuta

Guitar – Michael Landau

Harmony Vocals – Jennifer Warnes

Percussion – Steve Forman

Recorded By – Csaba Petocz, Frank Wolf

Synthesizer [Synthesizers], Arranged By [Synthesizers] – Bill Payne

3:19

B2 Coming Back To You

Bass – Jorge Calderon

Drums – Vinnie Colaiuta

Guitar – Fred Tackett

Lap Steel Guitar – David Lindley

Organ [Hammond] – WIlliam "Smitty" Smith

Piano – Bill Ginn

Synthesizer – Russell Ferrante

Vocals [SIngers] – Bobby King, Jennifer Warnes, Terry Evans, Willie Greene Jr.

3:42

B3 Song Of Bernadette

Arranged By [Strings] – Jeremy Lubbock

Conductor [Strings] – Bill Ginn

Double Bass [String Bass] – Roscoe Beck

Mixed By – Henry Lewy

Piano – Bill Ginn

Recorded By – Bill Youdelman, Paul Brown, Steven Strassman

Recorded By [Additional Recording] – Larry Brown, Tim Boyle

Recorded By [Additional Recording], Mixed By – Frank Wolf

Strings, Bass – Richard Feves

Strings, Cello – Larry Corbett

Strings, Viola – Novi Novog

Strings, Violin – Barbara Porter

Strings, Violin [First] – Sid Page

3:58

B4 A Singer Must Die

Arranged By [Arrangement] – Bill Ginn, Van Dyke Parks

Percussion – Bill Ginn

Vocals [Singers] – Arnold McCuller, David Lasley, George Ball, Greg Prestopino, Jennifer Warnes, Josef Powell, Kal David, Sharon Robinson, Tim Stone, Willie Greene Jr.

4:50

B5 Came So Far For Beauty

Electric Piano – Bill Ginn

Fretless Bass – Roscoe Beck

Harmony Vocals – Jennifer Warnes

Synthesizer, Accordion – Van Dyke Parks

3:37

Manufactured By – Attic Records Limited

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Cypress Records

Copyright (c) – Cypress Records

Recorded At – The Complex

Recorded At – Amigo Studios

Recorded At – Hollywood Sound Recorders

Recorded At – The Enterprise

Recorded At – Mama Jo's

Recorded At – Salty Dog Recording

Recorded At – Record Plant

Mastered At – Bernie Grundman Mastering

Pressed By – Cinram

Printed By – Shorewood Packaging Corp. Of Canada Ltd.

Designed At – Wintner Design

Published By – Stranger Music, Inc.

Published By – Warnes Music Inc.

Art Direction, Design – Leslie Wintner

Art Direction, Producer – Jennifer Warnes

Artwork [Sleeve Sketch] – Leonard Cohen

Cover [Cover Art] – Harry Bowers

Engineer [Assistant] – Clyve Taylor, Dan Reed, Duane Seykora, Garth Richardson, Jeff Park, Joel Stoner, Ken Fowler, Nyya Lark, Russell Bracher, Sharon Rice (2), Steven Bradley Ford, Terry Dunavan

Engineer [Chief Recording Engineer] – Bill Youdelman

Lyrics By – Jennifer Warnes (tracks: B3), Leonard Cohen (tracks: B3)

Management [Business] – Pam Wilson

Management [Representation] – Garry George Management

Music By – Bill Elliott (tracks: B3), Jennifer Warnes (tracks: B3), John Lissauer (tracks: B5), Leonard Cohen (tracks: B5)

Photography By [Back Cover] – Betsy Annas

Producer – C. Roscoe Beck

Programmed By – Chuck Barth, Todd Yyega

Project Manager [Project Coordinator] – Lori Nafshun

Written-By – Leonard Cohen (tracks: A1 to B2, B4)

White Label variation of Famous Blue Raincoat (The Songs Of Leonard Cohen).

Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Issued with a printed inner lyrics sleeve.

The four-point MAPL icons (Music, Artist, Performance, Lyrics) indicate all tracks are 50% Canadian Content (CanCon)

? © 1986 CYPRESS RECORDS

On labels: MADE IN CANADA

On spine: [Shorewood logo] LITHO IN CANADA

Hollywood Sound Recorders appears as Hollywood Sound

Record Plant appears as The Record Plant

Stranger Music, Inc appears a such on sleeve and as Stranger Music on labels.

Warnes Music Inc appears as Warnes Music, Inc. on sleeve and Warnes Music on labels.

CONDITION:  12" Vinyl is NEAR MINT in original printed inner sleeve (NM) in a hard card picture sleeve (VG+ very light ring wear)