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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Verve Forecast
Salesrank: 1430
Released: July 25, 2006 |
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Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man Track Listing:
1. Tower Of Song - Martha Wainwright
2. Tonight Will Be Fine - Teddy Thompson
3. I'm Your Man - Nick Cave
4. Winter Lady - Martha Wainwright, Kate & Anna McGarrigle
5. Sisters Of Mercy - Beth Orton
6. Chelsea Hotel No.2 - Rufus Wainwright
7. If It Be Your Will - Antony
8. I Can't Forget - Jarvis Cocker
9. Famous Blue Raincoat - The Handsome Family
10. Bird On A Wire - Perla Batalla
11. Everybody Knows - Rufus Wainwright
12. The Traitor - Martha Wainwright
13. Suzanne - Perla Batalla, Nick Cave & Julie Christensen
14. The Future - Teddy Thompson
15. Anthem - Perla Batalla, Julie Christensen
16. Tower Of Song - Leonard Cohen & U2
Editorial Review:
This soundtrack features powerful performances of Cohen masterpieces by an outstanding array of today's top singer-songwriters. The tracks on the CD were recorded live at Hal Willner's "Came So Far For Beauty: An Evening of Leonard Cohen Songs", at the Brighton Dome as part of the Brighton Festival 2004 and at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney Festival 2005, except "Tower of Song"featuring Leonard Cohen and U2.
Description of Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man:
Already an accomplished poet and novelist before he ambled into the music business in his mid-'30s, Leonard Cohen has remained as musically influential as he is publicly enigmatic for four decades. This celebration of Cohen's songbook began as a free concert that quickly mushroomed into a star-studded live tribute film shot at Sydney's famed Opera House and Brighton Dome. Musically supervised by Hal Willner (who's produced similar recorded tributes to Mingus, Monk, Rota and Weill), it recasts Cohen's evocative, emotionally uncompromising songs in compelling performances by singers who range from fellow cult heroes Nick Cave and Beth Orton to energetic newcomer Teddy Thompson and even rock gods U2. The latter's powerful collaboration with Cohen himself on the signature "Tower of Song" bookends Martha Wainright's solo opening rendition of the composition, deftly underscoring the project's eclectic artisanship in the bargain. Cave somehow channels the title track through Chicago's South Side via Weimar Berlin, while Teddy Thompson ponders "The Future" with exuberance and The Handsome Family informs "Famous Blue Raincoat" with elegant melodrama. Other standouts include Rufus Wainwright's nouveau Tango work-up of "Everybody Knows," Perla Batalla's gorgeous, Norteño-seasoned "Bird On a Wire" and her collaborations with Cave and Julia Christenson on "Suzanne" and "Anthem." A collection that's both a savvy primer to Cohen's catalog and impressive artistic achievement in its own right. --Jerry McCulley
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man Reviews:
Very Good CD - Not Perfect though 
2008-07-06 - I first was introduced to Cohen a few years ago and loved his music. Later when I saw "I'm Your Man" on Sundance I was completely enraptured by many of the performances on it. I was happy to see a CD was made of the songs.
I will say my favorite is probably the amazing cover of Anthem by Perla Betalla and Julie Christensen, though this is very closely followed by Rufus' Chelsea Hotel #2 and Teddy Thompson's Tonight Will be Fine. Another in the top list would be Antony's If it be your will.
Not quite as good but definitely worth it are Nick Cave doing Suzanne and then Sisters of Mercy by Beth Orton.
The other songs are not quite as memorable imo, but still great songs.
I was sorely dissapointed that both the Handsome Family's version of A Thousand Kisses Deep was missing as was the Wainright version of Hallelujah (One of the greatest covers of Hallelujah ever).
I can see why alot of people may not have liked this CD though if your a very old and hardcore Cohen fan. No one really sounds like Cohen and if you like that deep base voice then there is no one that will really touch Cohen for singing his songs. Personally, I think Cohen is a much better writer than singer and I prefer to hear other people sing most of his songs (with some exceptions, I think he sings Tower of Song, Suzanne, and A Thousand Kisses Deep well).
That being said, Cohen's writing is amazing. He truly is one of the most gifted poets/songwriters still alive.
Old fan with renewed interest
2008-07-04 - I bought this CD soundtrack after seeing the video on television. It contains more songs than the video, including "Tower of Song" done my Martha Wainright. I've been a Leonard Cohen fan since the 60s, but lost interest in him when his career seemed to wander and eventually he seemed to disappear. But the video renewed my interest. The video was excellent, and I think the CD soundtrack is really a good selection of his songs as well. It introduced me to Rufus and Martha Wainright and the McGarrigles, singers that had previously escaped my intention. It also introduced me to Beth Orton, who sings "Sisters of Mercy" on the video and CD. So my comment is that it renewed my interest in Leonard Cohen and now I have names of artists I'd never heard of before to follow.
What a shame! 
2008-01-28 - Every rendition on this CD except the last one is horrible. It is a huge mistake on anyone's part to attempt to give new interpretations to these songs, because without Cohen's deep voice and boundless spirituality, these songs would be just words+melodies instead of poetry. Rufus Wainwright's voice is particularly disturbing.
This is wonderful 
2007-12-10 - I couldn't get enough of this. The singer, Antony, singing, "If It Be Your Will," stopped me in my tracks. I haven't gotten his voice and this song out of my head for three weeks. This is a beautiful collection of Cohen's songs, done beautifully.
absent 1,000 kisses?
2007-10-03 - How could they omit this song, which was the only one on the DVD that i thought was a must have?
And you really want Leonard. So I say get the DVD for both of those. Overall, the covers are so un-magical (except 1,000 kisses, which was as special as when Alicia Keys covered "Wild Horses" with Adam Levine).
