Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat
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Artist: Jennifer WarnesEdition: Music CD
Running Time: 42 unknown-units
Published: 1986
Music Label: Cypress Records 1987
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Free Music Review: Jennifer Warnes' FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT Is A Gift From Artist to Artist
Hit: 5 Stars
FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT Is A Gift From Artist To Artist, September 4, 2003
Imagine a CD that combines one of America's greatest living singers with one of America's greatest living songwriters. The results, you would imagine, would be nothing short of brilliant! And, brilliant is the best way to describe the quintesential Jennifer Warnes Album, "FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT-The Songs Of Leonard Cohen". Rarely has there been a finer coupling of artists within the audio medium-Leonard Cohen's words and music seem to have been written specifically with Jennifer Warnes in mind, so perfect is the fit between writer and singer. The CD opens with a punch, with the biting powerhouse "First We Take Manhattan". From this plateau, we are soothed with the classic "Bird On A Wire", an oft-recorded tune from the 1970's, which is given new life and relevance in this interpretation. The title track, "Famous Blue Raincoat" is more confessional than pop song, executed in half-spoken, half-sung tones, and treated with the poetic reverence it so deserves. The two artists combine forces on the album's stand-out cut "Joan of Arc" and the result is nothing less than chilling. "Myself, I long for love and light/ But must it come so cruel/ Must it burn so bright" Cohen and Warnes sing in "Joan of Arc". This is as much the artistic interpretation of St. Joan's last thoughts as it is a treatise on the modern-day human condition. This magnificent combination of music and poetry not only enthralls with its beauty, but makes the listener think. Rounded out by such other works as "Song of Bernadette" and "A Singer Must Die", "FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT" starts out strong and gains momentum as it progresses. Aside from the fact that this recording is so technologically advanced that it set a new standard by which other CD's are now measured, this album is a rare and important work of two artists at the height of their powers. It is a gift from writer to singer, from singer to writer, and we, the listeners, are so much the richer.
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Track List: 1. First We Take Manhattan 2. Bird On A Wire 3. Famous Blue Raincoat 4. Joan Of Arc (With Guest Vocal By Leonard Cohen) 5. Came So Far For Beauty 6. Aint No Cure For 7. LoveComing Back To You 8. Song Of Bernadette 9. A Singer Must Die ~~~~~Original cd release~~~~~Pop Music CDs
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