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Singing (Ladies only) Leonard Cohen
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Happy Birthday Bobby McFerrin. ‘Bobby Sings One More Note’
Nina Simone records ‘Baltimore,’ an album for CTI (1978)
Nina Simone's 'Baltimore' is an album recorded in January 1978 and released the same year by CTI
Columbia publish Leonard Cohen’s debut album : ‘Songs of Leonard Cohen’ featuring ‘Suzanne,’ ‘Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye’ and ‘So Long…
'Songs of Leonard Cohen' feat. 'Suzanne' and 'So Long, Marianne' is his debut album recorded In August 1967 and released on December 27, 1967 by Columbia.
Harmonizing veteran David Crosby embark young partners, among them Michael Teague of Snarky Puppy, for another trip toward Woodstock. Your weed or mine?
David Crosby's 'Here If You Listen' is his seventh album recorded with Becca Stevens, Michelle Willis and Michael Teague of Snarky Puppy and released on October 26, 2018 by BMG
At age, 77, David Crosby is a “lion in winter” – sage in the ways of the world he serenades, with leonine hair and a history of stirring up trouble through song
Crosby shows great taste and artistic smarts in giving The Lighthouse Band, as the collective is known, a more prominent presence Billboard
Crosby addresses his own mortality, singing “I've been thinking about dying/ and how to do it well.” It’s a tough subject, but one that he tackles head-on
David Crosby - Here If You Listen
AMAZON . ITUNES . Released in March 1968, "Song |
For ‘In the Blue Light,’ Paul Simon hires Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis and others to revisit several old and more obscure pieces of his catalogue. De(blue)lightful!
Paul Simon's 'In the Blue Light' is his fourteenth solo studio album recorded with among others Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis, Bryce Dessner from The National and the yMusic sextet and released on September 7, 2018 by Legacy Recordings.
(Source Paul Simon - In the Blue Light | The Paul Simon Official Site)
Paul SimonBut leave it to Simon—who made Nile Rodgers play 90-something guitar takes for one session—to redo songs in ways that don’t exactly overhaul the originals.
...they are contemplative and melancholic one moment, silly and absurdist the next The Times
is a strange choice for a songwriter of his stature: a reworking of songs he felt were overlooked or not quite right first time
Paul Simon - In the Blue Light
AMAZON . ITUNES .This week In One-Off Collaborations 18/52
Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones, Joan Baez & Judy Collins, Paloma Faith & Candi Staton, Luther Vandross & Boy George, Martina McBride & Bob Seger, Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge, Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville, Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck & Billy Preston, Carlos Santana & Juanes, Joan Jett & Miley Cyrus, David Gahan & Martin Gore, Sting & Pearl Jam
They are the 12 one-off collaborations selected among the 343 Posts we publish this week.
Here, they are reunited in one glorious playlist. Enjoy!
Tracklist
 1 . Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones - Champagne And Reefer |
 2 . Joan Baez & Judy Collins - Diamonds & Rust |
 3 . Paloma Faith & Candi Staton - I'd Rather Be An Old Mans Sweetheart |
Reprise publish Joni Mitchell’s second album : ‘Clouds’ featuring ‘Both Sides, Now’ (1969)
Joni Mitchell's 'Clouds' is her second studio album released (with a self-portrait on its cover) on May 1, 1969 by Reprise.
They All Sing Leonard
Famous and not so famous people get together to take on songs written by Leonard Cohen whose birthday is today.
Nina Simone, Justin Timberlake, Madeleine Peyroux, Tom Jones, Lana Del Rey, Glen Hansard, Beck, Nick Cave, Judy Collins,kd lang, Esther Ofarim, Joe Cocker, Michael Bublé, Meshell Ndegeocello, Roberta Flack, Jeff Buckley, Tori Amos, Rufus Wainwright and twenty six more "They All Sing Leonard"
Track Listing Video :
1.Suzanne (Nina Simone) - 06:30 . 2.So Long Marianne (Russian Red) - 04:42 . 3.Famous Blue Raincoat (Matthew Luke Sandoval) - 05:34 . 4.Bird On A Wire (Esther Ofarim) - 03:14 . 5.I'M Your Man (Emily Rose) - 03:58 . 6.I'M Your Man (Liam Isaac) - 06:07 . 7.Hallelujah (Kd Lang) - 05:45 . 8.The Partisan (The Swell Season) - 04:20 . 9.Joan Of Arc (Judy Collins) - 06:03 .…The Incredible String Band release ‘The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter,’ their third album (1968)
The Incredible String Band's 'The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter' is their third album produced by Joe Boyd and released in March 1968 by Elektra
Happy Birthday David Crosby. ‘Sing Crosby’
Island publish Brian Eno’s second solo album : ‘Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)’ (1974)
Brian Eno's 'Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)' is his second solo album featuring Phil Manzanera, and released in November 1974 by Island.