Cohen Live

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Cohen Live
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Live album by
ReleasedJune 28, 1994
Recorded1988, 1993
Genre Contemporary folk, soft rock
Length71:50
Label Sony
Producer Leanne Ungar, Bob Metzger
Leonard Cohen chronology
The Future
(1992)
Cohen Live
(1994)
More Best of Leonard Cohen
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Cohen Live is a live album by Leonard Cohen released in 1994.

Contents

The songs were recorded live in 1988 on the I'm Your Man Tour and in 1993 on The Future World Tour. Several of the songs have altered lyrics, which are printed in the liner notes as sung. [2] This was Cohen's first live release since Live Songs in 1973. Reviews were mixed, with Time writing, "This glum, melancholy collection should be dispensed only with large doses of Prozac."

Track listing

All songs written by Leonard Cohen, except where noted.

  1. "Dance Me to the End of Love" (Toronto, June 17, 1993)
  2. "Bird on the Wire" (Toronto, June 17, 1993)
  3. "Everybody Knows" (Vancouver, July 29, 1993) (Cohen, Sharon Robinson)
  4. "Joan of Arc" (Toronto, June 17, 1993)
  5. "There Is a War" (Toronto, June 17, 1993)
  6. "Sisters of Mercy" (Toronto, June 18, 1993)
  7. "Hallelujah" (Austin, October 31, 1988)
  8. "I'm Your Man" (Toronto, June 17, 1993)
  9. "Who by Fire?" (Austin, October 31, 1988)
  10. "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong" (San Sebastian, May 20, 1988)
  11. "If It Be Your Will" (Austin, October 31, 1988)
  12. "Heart with No Companion" (Amsterdam, April 19, 1988)
  13. "Suzanne" (Vancouver, July 29, 1993)

Personnel

Musicians 1988
Musicians 1993

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References

  1. "Robert Christgau: CG: Leonard Cohen".
  2. Booklet for Columbia CD 4771712