LEONARD COHEN - Songs Of (1968) - 12" Vinyl Record LP - VG+ excellent quality
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Description
Songs of Leonard Cohen is the debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released on December 27, 1967, on Columbia Records.
More successful in Europe than in North America, Songs of Leonard Cohen foreshadowed the kind of chart success Cohen would go on to achieve. Cohen had received positive attention from critics as a poet and novelist but had maintained a keen interest in music, having played guitar in a country and western band called the Buckskin Boys as a teenager. In 1966, Cohen set out for Nashville, where he hoped to become a country songwriter, but instead got caught up in New York City's folk scene.
The album features some of Cohen's most celebrated songs. Mojo has described the album as "the cornerstone of Cohen's remarkable career, but also a genuine songwriting landmark in terms of language, thematic developments and even arrangements."
On the back cover of the album is a Mexican religious picture of the Anima Sola depicted as a woman breaking free of her chains surrounded by flames and gazing towards heaven. In a Rolling Stone interview, Cohen described the image as "the triumph of the spirit over matter. The spirit being that beautiful woman breaking out of the chains and the fire and prison."
Side one No. Title Length 1. "Suzanne" 3:47 2. "Master Song" 5:58 3. "Winter Lady" 2:14 4. "The Stranger Song" 5:05 5. "Sisters Of Mercy" 3:30 Side two No. Title Length 6. "So Long, Marianne" 5:37 7. "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" 3:05 8. "Stories Of The Street" 4:35 9. "Teachers" 2:58 10. "One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong" 4:25
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