Bill Callahan :: So long, Marianne (Leonard Cohen)

Bill Callahan’s dark country & western croon takes on “So long, Marianne,” the opening track off side two of Leonard Cohen’s 1968 debut, Songs of Leonard Cohen. Slowing things down, Callahan and co. eschew the original’s violin and backing female vocals, and in their stead add weeping pedal-steel and a dose of Texas heartache. The cover [...]

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