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JENNIFER WARNES - FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT (LIMITED EDITION 180g 45RPM 3LP BOX SET)

Jennifer Warnes Famous Blue Raincoat 180g 45RPM 3LP Box Set From Cisco Music

Mastered by Bernie Grundman and Housed in a Gorgeous Box

Out of Print Edition Includes 5 Bonus Tracks

Jennifer Warnes was familiar with Leonard Cohen from a tour of duty as one of his backup singers in the early 70s, but this collection of Cohen's songs must have shocked her AM radio fans who knew her from her 70s country-pop hits and her movie themes, if they were even able to connect the woman who sang "It's the Right Time of the Night for Makin' Love" with the one who declared, "First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin" over stinging guitar work by Stevie Ray Vaughan on the opening track here. As that pairing suggests, Warnes wisely took a tougher, more contemporary approach to the arrangements than such past Cohen interpreters such as Judy Collins.

Where other singers tended to geld Cohen's often disturbingly revealing poetry, Warnes, working with the composer himself and introducing a couple of great new songs ("First We Take Manhattan" and "Song of Bernadette," which she co-wrote), matched his own versions. The high point may be the Warnes-Cohen duet on "Joan of Arc," but the album is consistently impressive. And it went a long way toward re-establishing Cohen, whose reputation was in a minor eclipse in the mid-80s. A year later, with the way paved , he released his brilliant comeback album, I'm Your Man. For Warnes, the album meant her first taste of real critical success: suddenly a singer who had seemed like a second-rate Linda Ronstadt now appeared to be a first-class interpretive artist.

Mastered and cut at 45RPM by Bernie Grundman and pressed on HQ 180-gram LP, and housed in a sumptuous box, this version of the audiophile favorite will have you returning to the turntable again and again. Now out of print, get your copy before they disappear!

Jennifer Warnes Famous Blue Raincoat Track Listing:

1. First We Take Manhattan
2. Bird on a Wire
3. Famous Blue Raincoat
4. Joan of Arc
5. Ain't No Cure For Love
6. Coming Back To You
7. Song of Bernadette
8. A Singer Must Die
9. Came So Far For Beauty

Bonus Tracks
10. Night Comes On
11. Ballad of the Runaway Horse
12. If It Be Your Will (Reprise)
13. Joan of Arc (Live in Belgium)
14. A Singer Must Die (Demo)