Grace album jeff buckley torrent6/9/2023 ![]() You could teach master’s level classes on Cohen’s lyricism just the idea of trying to encapsulate his incredible songs into 100-word blurbs feels intimidating even though that’s exactly what I’m doing here. In fact, his music could best be described as melodic poems-many of his best-known songs began as poems, and there are few moments throughout his discography that don’t showcase a vast depth and complexity of meaning, just waiting to be picked apart and unraveled. He released two novels before picking up a guitar and recording his 1968 debut, Songs of Leonard Cohen, and even after he’d commit full-time to songwriting and performing, he’d still release collections of poetry. ![]() It was only after spending most of his twenties going nowhere as the former that he’d end up pursuing the latter. There’s probably no fact more important to understanding Leonard Cohen than that he began his career as a writer, not as a musician.
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