album · October 22, 2002
The Essential Leonard Cohen
ColumbiaSee this day
folksinger-songwriterfolk rock
This 2002 compilation offers a solid overview of Leonard Cohen's career, drawing from his most commercially successful periods. It arrived as his work was finding a new audience with younger listeners and subsequent generations.
- Released in 2002, "The Essential Leonard Cohen" reached No. 8 on Billboard's Independent Albums chart.
- The compilation features tracks spanning Cohen's career from his 1967 debut, "Songs of Leonard Cohen," through to "Ten New Songs" (2001).
- The album cover features a photograph of Cohen taken by his longtime friend, the famed landscape photographer Galen Rowell.
Leonard Cohen was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. He was a major figure in folk music and an international recording artist for decades.
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