The Essential Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen

Personnel includes: Leonard Cohen (vocals). Producers include: John Simon, Bob Johnston, John Lissauer, Leonard Cohen, Henry Lewy. Compilation producers: Leanne Ungar, Bruce Dickinson. Recorded between 1967 & 2001. Includes liner notes by Pico Iyer. Recording information: 1967-2001. Illustrator: Leonard Cohen. Photographer: Dominique Issermann. THE ESSENTIAL LEONARD COHEN manages the considerable task of documenting the career of a man many consider one of the finest songwriters in the English language. Easily on par with Bob Dylan and Paul Simon in terms of sheer poetic power, Canadian troubadour Cohen started out, appropriately enough, as a prose poet before beginning a recording career in the late 1960s. His early albums, amply represented here, found him accompanied chiefly by his own nylon-string guitar, delivering dark, but often romantic, reveries atop folk-based song structures. By the late '70s, Cohen's lyrics and musical settings had both grown more expansive, as is made plain here by judicious...

Key Information
Number of Discs		2
Artist		Leonard Cohen
Record Label		Legacy Recordings
Genre		Rock and Pop
Subgenre		Folk Rock
Release Date		October 22, 2002
Song List: Disc 1
Song List: Disc 2