Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat: 20th Anniversary Edition
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Free Music Review: Great Listening
Hit: 5 Stars
A must-have for those who listen to the lyrics! Beautiful arrangements of unforgettable songs-poems by an exquisite vocal artist- TIMELESS!!Free Music Review: A must have for the Leonard Cohen Fan!
Hit: 5 Stars
After 20 years this CD still holds up. Jennifer Warnes voice is perfect! This CD is a "must have" for any Leonard Cohen fan.Free Music Review: "Famous Blue Raincoat" by Jennifer Warnes
Hit: 5 Stars
Delighted to add this to my collection... Original and well written, with top-notch vocals! Buy it and enjoy!!Free Music Review: All The Old Memories
Hit: 5 Stars
When I listen to this album all the old memories come flooding back! A five star performance, no doubt!Free Music Review: The first nine tracks are still at five stars...
Hit: 4 Stars
and I am so glad this has been reissued. Twenty years ago I owned it on tape, and wore it out in about six years of frequent play. I loved seven of the nine songs, only feeling that "Manhattan" and "Raincoat" were a notch below the others. Her duet with Cohen on "Joan of Arc" had me in a spell, and along with "Song of Bernadette" which Jennifer co-wrote, were the two tracks I repeated time and time again. But her takes on "Bird on a Wire" and "Coming Back to You" and "Came So Far for Beauty" were also delightful no matter how many times I heard them. "Ain't No Cure for Love" and "A Singer Must Die" pleased me as well. It came out on CD, but I didn't have the budget to buy a copy while that one was still "in print." Now we have this version, in a lovely package and four bonus tracks. I like the addition of "Night Comes On" and "If It Be Your Will" although neither is as good as the seven best offerings on the older album. My problem with this edition is that I am not enthralled with "Ballad of the Runaway Horse" and I think it was a mistake to include the live version of "Joan" without Leonard to help at eight minutes' length. I would have rather heard Ms. Warnes sing three or four other Cohen tunes instead of those two. Still, this is a product that any Cohen fan, Warnes fan, or fan of great singing and songwriting should have on the shelf. There are seemingly dozens of thin-voiced female vocalists earning millions for putting out love or sex songs you can dance to, but whose content can be summed up in a couple of words: "Take me." Jennifer Warnes deserved a lot more money and fame than she received in her career (at least so far) because she performs with clarity, diction, heart, soul and mind. As for Mr. Cohen, he and Bob Dylan and Lennon-McCartney will likely go down in history as the best songwriters the world produced during the past 40 years. I find an Emily Dickinson-quality about Cohen's work: it is most frequently about death or other losses, it is often obscure in meaning, impossible to label as autobiography yet difficult to label as entirely fictional. And very powerful, hard to forget and easy to indulge in as a regular menu item for the literary minded. So four stars for this item as an entire listening experience, but buy it anyway. Its creators, including Ms. Warnes' band mates, deserve to be heard...by everyone.