Just by coincidence, yesterday I saw in the local newspaper in Basel about a concert by The Avalanche Quartet, a group lead by Henk Hofstede (Nits), playing a selection of Leonard Cohen songs. It was really great. Completely full-house and great performances. So, if you live in Switzerland, take the chance to see and listen to them this weekend. On keyboards and other instruments is Pim Kops, in Holland famous fro playing with De Dijk...


[www.avalanchequartet.nl]


sjouke

"Im back on Boogie street"..

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

"My friends have gone, and my hair is grey/I ache in the places where I used to play.."



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Four o'clock in the afternoon and I didn't feel like very much.
I said to myself, "Where are you golden boy? Where's your famous golden touch?".

"Democracy is comin, to the U-S-A"

Cohen is not just "your man" he is THE man.

"...who for his greed, who for his hunger,
and who shall I say is calling?"

Suzanne




Stranger Song




Chelsea Hotel




Who By Fire w/Sonny Rollins




So Long Marianne





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You can find incredible lines in every Cohen song, he's one of a kind

..thats a time machine knob.....

It seems so long ago,
none of us were strong;
Nancy wore green stockings
and she slept with everyone.
She never said she'd wait for us
although she was alone,
I think she fell in love for us
in nineteen sixty one,
in nineteen sixty one.
It seems so long ago,
Nancy was alone,
a .45 beside her head,
an open telephone.
We told her she was beautiful,
we told her she was free
but none of us would meet her in
the House of Mystery, ---