Understandably, Leonard Cohen is the
Leonard Cohen of our time, but if something horrible, terrible, and
awful happened and the world had to wake up one day without Leonard
Cohen crooning his sad songs of life, Bill Callahan would be his
rightful successor. Thus, Bill Callahan laying his own deep-toned croon
on to one of the great Leonard Cohen songs isn’t just amazing, it’s
downright etched in the stars. Callahan’s take on “So Long, Marianne” is
steeped in the humming Americana he does so well, and the song seems to
weep with his delivery. It’s a beautiful, beautiful track, and I could
only dream of Callahan lending his talents to an entire album of Cohen
tracks …
The song arrives on The Songs of Leonard Cohen Covered,
a full album of artists doin’ that Cohen thing.
me; good job bill.
a tough one to cover song this man
