I'm Your Man: Leonard Cohen

摘要

By the time you read this column, 77-year-old Canadian poet/musician Leonard Cohen will have only just released his 12th studio album, the drolly named Old Ideas (Columbia. UPC 886979867123), on January 31. Songs that have been leaked so far are stately and hymnlike, as befitting a man who became a Zen monk in 1996 and whose voice has aged from a nasal yelp to low intonations worthy of an Old Testament prophet. It's been a long, strange road for an unassuming writer who picked up a guitar and put his melancholic, lovelorn, and often bleakly humorous lines into song form at the tail end of the Sixties.