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When Israel’s Ambassador To Washington Insisted That Leonard Cohen’s Show Provided “incontrovertible evidence of an impending Israeli victory” In Yom Kippur War.Leonard Cohen Fans Debate Their Collective Noun.

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Sew Me The Place: How To Get An Interview With Leonard Cohen And Get Into His Hotel Room… And Get Him Out Of His Pants – But “No Hanky-Panky”.

Photo: A Very Young, Well-Attired Leonard Cohen With His (Also Well Dressed) Father Nathan.

Outstanding Leonard Cohen Performance: Save The Last Dance For Me – Wembley 2012.

2 Yet, performed the same way by almost anyone else, the same tactic would come off as too precious by half. Listen to her inflected pronunciation of “Baton Rouge” in the first line, “Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin’ for a train.” It makes this version of the song her own from that point, giving the song a richer, more complex flavor than those rendered in flat Midwestern intonations. It is definitely not an Allison Crowe kind of song.Īlthough Allison introduces over a dozen significant adaptations to “Me and Bobby McGee,” I’ll point out only one nuance. So did The Grateful Dead and Dolly Parton. Kenny Rogers, when he was still the “Kenny Rogers” in “Kenny Rogers & The First Edition,” sang it, as did Gordon Lightfoot, Bill Haley & His Comets, Sam The Sham, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash. “Me and Bobby McGee” is a Kristofferson-Joplin-Miller kind of song. Nor would it have been on my “Possible Allison Crowe Covers #101-200” list, nor the “#201 to 300” list. If Allison had asked me to select 100 possible covers for her to play in a concert, a real concert with a fancy piano set in the converted church chapel of the Conservatory of Music in Victoria, British Columbia, a concert that would become the album, Allison Crowe Live At Wood Hall (with album art, shown on the right, radiating dangerous levels of wholesomeness), “Me and Bobby McGee” would not have been on my list. “Me and Bobby McGee,” the song authored by Kris Kristofferson and popularized by Janis Joplin (although Roger Miller’s version was the first to rank as a hit), is not one of my favorites, but it is useful as an example of Allison Crowe’s skills, in part because most readers of this blog have, I suspect, heard it sung by at least a couple of performers.Īlso noteworthy, however, is the choice itself. I was first mesmerized by Allison’s rendition of this song back in 2008, when I wrote:

This video of Allison Crowe’s cover of “Me and Bobby McGee,” the handiwork of Adrian du Plessis, Allison’s business manager, tour mapper, big brother backup, publicist, dedicated fan, and agent provocateur, features photos taken by Billie Woods of scenes encountered during Allison’s European tour in support of the “Northern Lights Festival,” a benefit for the John Lennon Memorial Garden, as well as still shots of Allison performing. Allison Crowe is the best thing to happen to “Me And Bobby McGee” since Janis Joplin changed Kristofferson’s lyrics.