Tori Amos - Famous Blue Raincoat
Tori Amos - Famous Blue RaincoatI just recently got around to reading this amazingly in-depth piece on Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. It traces the evolution of the song and its various covers in exacting detail. Hallelujah is a great song, but my favorite Leonard Cohen cover has to be Tori Amos' version of Famous Blue Raincoat. I had this song on repeat for like a year; but that was about 10 years ago, and I haven't thought about the song again until now. Its from an album called Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, which sadly is all but extinct now. Its not available new, its not on Amazon MP3, not on iTunes. The best bet for finding it is buying it used off of Amazon or Half.com. And they thought CDs were dead!
posted by monsur at
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Hey, glad you liked the Hallelujah piece, and glad you posted this song, it's one of my favorites too. I love Tori's covers (except, oddly, the ones on her covers album) because I think they harness her abilities to a concrete and well-known melody and set of lyrics. So she can go off on those piano flights but they eventually get back to Cohen's song. The song, too, is more apt for this kind of cover than "Hallelujah" is--it's more serious, and closer to Tori's style of hyberbolic hushed romantic dramas.
The best Leonard Cohen cover ever, though, is Robeta Flack's version of "Suzanne."
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