Rating: 4/5
Review:
Some very good stuff here
There is a good deal of truth in the old saying that no-one can sing
a Leonard Cohen song the way Leonard Cohen couldn’t, but there are
some very good covers here, along with some not-so-good ones.
Really, how you
respond to these recordings is a matter of individual taste; another
reviewer singles out Barb Jungr’s Everybody Knows for special
praise, whereas I really don’t like it. I suspect that’s the way
it will be for most of this album – people will just disagree about
what they like, if anything. For me, it was better than I expected:
I have known and loved Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah for years (while
my sister hated it), I was very pleasantly surprised by Rufus
Wainwright and Dion’s contributions and liked a lot of the others,
but – again surprisingly – hated the great Nina Simone’s
version of Suzanne. And so it goes.
Taste here is likely
to be so individual that my recommendation may not be much use, but
for what it’s worth I think this is an album I like a lot overall
and which is well worth having.
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