Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat
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Artist: Jennifer WarnesEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2000-10-31
Music Label: Bmg Int'l 1987
Soundtracks:
- First We Take Manhattan
- Bird on a Wire
- Famous Blue Raincoat
- Joan of Arc
- Ain't No Cure for Love
- Coming Back to You
- Song of Bernadette
- Singer Must Die
- Came So Far for Beauty
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Free Music Review: Jenny Sings Lenny
Hit: 5 Stars
`Famous Blue Raincoat' might be one of the few, if not only, disk I have purchased because a store clerk was playing it while I was searching for other music. This was 1986-87 and "Joan of Arc" had me riveted. I bought the only copy the store had, as this wasn't a big stock item.
Only marginally familiar with both Warnes and Cohen at the time, it seemed like a good blending of talents - as I have never thought much of Cohen as an effective singer. To me, his talents were in the writing.
While only nine songs long, each one is expertly crafted and recorded. That is no small feat considering how new the CD medium was back in the mid-late 80s. It is one of the disks from that era that doesn't already need re-mastering and updating just to be played on today's technology.
Warnes' vocals are a very good match for Cohen's words and she pulls it off seemingly both with ease and the right emotion. There is really no point in picking out highlights - as they all stand by themselves and as a body of work.
20+ year later, it still stands the test of time and worthy of a purchase.
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Canadian edition of the hit vocalist's acclaimed 1986 collection of Leonard Cohen covers, currently out-of-print in theU.S.. Highlights include, 'First We Take Manhattan', 'Bird On A Wire' and 'Joan Of Arc' with guest vocal by Leonard Cohen. Standard jeweSince Ella Fitzgerald never produced a songbook of Leonard Cohen songs, Jennifer Warnes's plush 1986 tribute is the next best thing. The sleekly seductive "First We Take Manhattan" is gilded by the guitars of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robben Ford. Warnes doesn't add much to an evergreen like "Bird on a Wire," but she lays claim to the noirish title song with a confidential vocal that complements the chamber-pop arrangement. "Song of Bernadette" is a ripened gem, and the selection where Warnes lets down her refined vocal technique to reveal deep emotions. More often, Warnes is as professionally accomplished on this well-chosen set as her band of studio pros. --John Milward
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