Leonard Cohen - Songs From The Road [Sony Legacy 88697759099] {Europe 2010} -BluRay Rip-

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Leonard Cohen – Songs From The Road

Label: Sony Music, Legacy
Catalog#: 88697759099
Format: Blu-ray, Stereo, Multichannel
Country: Europe
Released: 2010
Genre: Rock
Style: Folk Rock

Tracklist:

1 Lover, Lover, Lover 7:44
2 Bird On The Wire 6:09
3 Chelsea Hotel 3:32
4 Heart With No Companion 5:07
5 That Don't Make It Junk 4:23
6 Waiting For The Miracle 8:02
7 Avalanche 4:17
8 Suzanne 3:41
9 The Partisan 5:19
10 Famous Blue Raincoat 5:24
11 Hallelujah 7:32
12 Closing Time 6:07

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PCM (uncompressed) Stereo (96khz/24bit)
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround (96khz/24bit)

"Lover, Lover, Lover" - Live Sept 24, 2009; Ramat Gan Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Bird On The Wire" - Live Nov 6, 2008; Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow, Scotland
"Chelsea Hotel" - Live Nov 17, 2008; Royal Albert Hall, London, England
"Heart With No Companion" - Live Nov 2, 2008; Oberhausen King Pilsener Arena, Oberhausen, Germany
"That Don't Make It Junk" - Live Nov 13, 2008; O2 Arena, London, England
"Waiting For The Miracle" - Live Nov 13, 2009; HP Pavilion, San Jose, California
"Avalanche" - Live Oct 12, 2008; Gothenburg Scandinavium, Gothengurg, Sweden
"Suzanne" - Live Nov 30, 2008; MENA Arena, Manchester, England
"The Partisan" - Live Oct 10, 2008; Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland
"Famous Blue Raincoat" - Live Nov 13, 2008; O2 Arena, London, England
"Hallelujah" - Live April 17, 2009; Coachella Music Festival, Indio, California
"Closing Time" - Live May 24, 2009; John Labatt Centre, London, Ontario, Canada

Bonus Feature: "Backstage Sketch" Film by Lorca Cohen (not included)

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Barcode: 8 8697-75909-9 3

Discogs Url: http://www.discogs.com/release/3462259

Review

by Mark Deming

Given that Leonard Cohen's recent international concert tour was prompted by the fact his former manager purportedly made off with his life's savings, only a curmudgeon would blame the man for trying to make the enterprise as profitable as possible. Roughly 14 months after releasing Live in London, which preserved Cohen's July 2008 performance at London's 02 Arena, the venerable singer and songwriter is presenting to his fans Songs from the Road, featuring 12 tunes (on both CD and DVD) from his 2008 and 2009 concert dates. While Live in London captured the feel and flow of a single concert and featured most of Cohen's best-known songs, this set includes bits and pieces from 11 different shows, and while this album isn't exactly a collection of rarities, it does feature a number of lesser-known tunes (such as "Heart With No Companion" and "That Don't Make It Junk") and variant versions of some of his more famous numbers (Cohen juggles the order of the verses on "Suzanne" and adds a new verse to "Bird on a Wire"). While Live in London was a richly satisfying souvenir of Cohen's inspired comeback shows, Songs from the Road is less impressive in its more modest scale and less cohesive atmosphere. But the album still demonstrates that Cohen is a compelling and absorbing performer who brings his soul into every verse he sings, and his band is nothing less that superb; even when Dino Soldo's sax and Bob Metzger's guitar dip into jazz fusion sleepyland, they give Cohen just the musical support he needs, and the interplay between them and the vocalist is a marvel. Songs from the Road seems a bit pale compared to the excellence of Live in London, but both albums are enough to convince anyone that even at the age of 74, Leonard Cohen remains one of the most vital figures in contemporary music, and his gifts as a performer nearly match his abilities as a writer, no small accomplishment.

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