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Leonard Cohen: ‘Popular Problems’ - Leonard Cohen is 80. “Popular Problems” is his 15th collection of original songs. It’s tempting, given those facts, to think that he’s slowing down. That would be wrong --- Cohen has never
Leonard Cohen: Live - Beacon Theater, New York City February 19, 2009 I couldn't blame my wife for her sudden ambivalence when a guy outside the theater offered us $1,000 for each of our front-row
Leonard Cohen: Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 - This is not a review of a legendary concert appearance by Leonard Cohen. It’s a meditation on personal power. Essentially, I’m trying to figure out here what happens below the surface
Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas - If you’re in the Cohen Cult, you have a memory of a song and a moment. Usually not a joyous memory. As someone has said, “You play Leonard after
Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas (Take 2) - A week before it was released, I wrote about Old Ideas, the new Leonard Cohen CD. Now it’s out --- and it’s the #1 best-selling CD on Amazon. No way. And not just
Levon Helm (1940-2012): “The sun’s gonna shine/ Through the shadows/ When I go away” - He's the one who sang “The Weight” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and "Up on Cripple Creek." He played Loretta Lynn's father in “Coal Miner's Daughter.” He's
Life In Slow Motion - Life In Slow Motion David Gray I
Live at the Cellar Door - Live at the Cellar Door Richie Havens I missed
London Calling - Some of you are Young and know The Clash only as a name. Some are Older and ignored The Clash (as you ignored a lot of things in 1980). And
Lou Doillon - There's every reason to pay attention to Lou Doillon. She's the daughter of Jane Birkin (yes, the inspiration for the Birkin bag.) Her half-sister is Charlotte Gainsbourg. She started acting at
Lou Reed (1942-2013) - Guest Butler Holly Gleason is the first friend I made in Nashville, too many years ago to count. Lucky me: she knows everybody and everything. Her first identity is as a pop
Love: Forever Changes - "Alone Again Or" came on the radio as I was driving. I hadn't heard it in so long it was like the first time. It was so good --- I
Lukas Graham - The first time I watched the YouTube video of “7 Years” it had 4 million views. It now has 473,000,000. This isn’t surprising --- for a while last winter, “7 Years”
Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor
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Mark Knopfler - Forty-Five Republican Senators voted against a trial for Donald Trump, making it impossible he'll be convicted. That means the only people who will be found guilty of anything are the
Mark Knopfler: ‘I have become a bit of a veteran at this music thing’ - “I’m writing too many songs, and then I have to put them out --- I’m sorry,” Mark Knopfler said at the start of what seems like our annual phone call. But
Mark Knopfler: Shangri La - Mark Knopfler strums the electric guitar as if it were acoustic, the sound gentle as a snow flurry. His voice is almost conversational: 5:15 A.M. snow laying all around a collie cycles home from
Mark Knopfler: Tracker - Very few people find early in life what they want to do and get to do it all their lives. At the top of the list in music: Mark Knopfler.
Markéta Irglová - Guest Butler Ron Fried produces TV, writes really crisp novels (like Christmas in Paris, 2002), knows everything about Balzac and is unspeakably nice. Thank God he can’t compete at Olympic-level
