Track Listing

1. First We Take Manhattan
2. Bird On a Wire
3. Famous Blue Raincoat
4. Joan Of Arc
5. Ain't No Cure For Love
6. Coming Back To You
7. Song Of Bernadette
8. A Singer Must Die
9. Came Do Far For Beauty
10. The Night Comes On
11. Ballad Of the Runaway Horse
12. If It Be Your Will
13. Joan Of Arc

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4479 in Music
• Released on: 2007-08-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Collector's Edition

Album Description
On Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, Jennifer Warnes rearranged and reinterpreted some of Leonard Cohen's greatest songs for a unique album that remains the ultimate tribute to Cohen's music. It was greeted with rave reviews, and made numerous year-end best-of lists. This deluxe new reissue contains four previously unreleased songs and a 24-page booklet with rare photos from Warnes' personal collection.

Best known for such pop hits as the Oscar- and Grammywinning duets "(I've Had) The Time of My Life," with Bill Medley, from the film Dirty Dancing, and "Up Where We Belong," with Joe Cocker, from the film An Officer and a Gentleman, Jennifer Warnes has earned her greatest acclaim for Farmous Blue Raincoat, considered by many to be one of thebest albums of the '80s

Features four previously unreleased recordings

Digitally remastered from the original analog tapes

Deluxe booklet that tells the story behind one of the most acclaimed albums of all time

"Her voice is like the California weather--filled with sunlight , but there's an earthquake behind it." --Leonard Cohen

Amazon.com
Since Ella Fitzgerald never produced a songbook of Leonard Cohen songs, Jennifer Warnes's plush 1986 tribute is the next best thing. The sleekly seductive "First We Take Manhattan" is gilded by the guitars of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robben Ford. Warnes doesn't add much to an evergreen like "Bird on a Wire," but she lays claim to the noirish title song with a confidential vocal that complements the chamber-pop arrangement. "Song of Bernadette" is a ripened gem, and the selection where Warnes lets down her refined vocal technique to reveal deep emotions. More often, Warnes is as professionally accomplished on this well-chosen set as her band of studio pros. --John Milward

Customer Reviews

A fabulous album
I can't believe I had never heard of this album until I just stumbled across it while browsing music online. The first time I listened to it, I was simply amazed. This is truly one of the greatest albums I own. The combination of Leonard Cohen's songwriting genius and Jennifer's rich voice make for an unforgettable album that stands up to repeated listenings.

THE Leonard Cohen record to buy
I will echo what one of the other reviewers has said: sometimes you want a real singer to sing real songs. Cohen is a much better poet than we can ever hope to get in pop music, but Warnes has a real voice. Cohen is prone to sing flat at times. His voice drifts downward. Warnes has a better instrument. And even if you didn't know who Cohen or Warnes were, this is a great record anyway.

Famous Blue Raincoat Jennifer Warnes
If you liked the original release and you have the equipment to realise the benefit of the remastering then this is a well worth while addition to your collection.

The sound quality over the original is spectacular I could hear things that never existed in the original standard release Jennifers voice and the backing vocals present themselves as if it were a personal performance.

I would like to see the same done to the Hunter album or maybe an SACD 5.1 version of both of them, their is nothing like quality and this album has it in spades and then some.