Canadian Singer, Songwriter, and poet, Leonard Cohen has died at the age of 82. His passion for poetry shone through in his songs, lyrics that have connected with many people and generations.
With Leonard Cohen hitting 80 on Sunday just gone, Scott Matthews records a version of his Seems So Long Ago Nancy by way of tribute. You can hear it here as our Song Of The Day.
Adam Cohen, son of Leonard, releases his fifth album just a couple of weeks before his father’s. But whatever living ghosts may haunt it, this is very much an album by Cohen Jr, not Cohen Sr.
The latest Simple Folk Radio Show features Yorkshire born Jason Steel who will be performing a special session to mark the release of his new album ‘The Weight of Care’.
Our song of the day is Bill Callahan’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘So Long, Marianne’. In other news, Bill Callahan is to release a new 7″ cover of the late Mickey Newbury’s “Heaven Help The Child”.
Marissa Nadler is back in London next week for her first gig in the capital in over two years. To mark the occasion she has shared a cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Winter Lady’, free to download.
