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Leonard Cohen

Famous Blue Raincoat
1971 · via Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat
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Cohen recorded it first in 1971, and Tori Amos took it on in 1992, in a line of singers that also runs through Joan Baez and Jennifer Warnes. Play his first, then hers, and listen to how the same letter reads in another voice.

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Liner notes

Written by Leonard Cohen.

First recorded by Leonard Cohen in 1971.

Also recorded by Tori Amos (1992), Joan Baez (1989), Steve Hogarth (2011), Jennifer Warnes (1986), Lloyd Cole (1995), The Handsome Family (2004).

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Leonard Cohen wrote and first recorded "Famous Blue Raincoat." Which of these artists later put her own recording of it on tape?Tori Amos
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