Fragments of a Rainy Season

by John Cale

Fragments of a Rainy Season cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 September 1992
  • Label: Hannibal
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:06:52
  • Community rating: 4.44/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An intimate, stripped-down acoustic concert capturing the former Velvet Underground member's solo catalog. Relying only on his piano and guitar, Cale delivers profoundly intense and vulnerable vocal performances, highlighted by a devastatingly beautiful, definitive rendition of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'.

Genres

Descriptors: ballad, melodic, rain, acoustic, live

Tracklist

  1. A Child's Christmas In Wales (3:02)
  2. Dying On The Vine (3:49)
  3. Cordoba (3:14)
  4. Darling I Need You (3:10)
  5. Paris 1919 (3:21)
  6. Guts (2:45)
  7. Fear (Is A Man's Best Friend) (3:42)
  8. Ship Of Fools (3:35)
  9. Leaving It Up To You (3:27)
  10. The Ballad Of Cable Hogue (2:51)
  11. Thoughtless Kind (2:30)
  12. On A Wedding Anniversary (3:36)
  13. Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed (4:05)
  14. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (3:31)
  15. Buffalo Ballet (2:34)
  16. Chinese Envoy (3:02)
  17. Style It Takes (2:48)
  18. Heartbreak Hotel (4:54)
  19. (I Keep A) Close Watch (2:30)
  20. Hallelujah (4:26)

Credits

  • Larry Sloman - written-by
  • Brian Eno - written-by
  • Dylan Thomas - lyrics by
  • Lou Reed - written-by
  • Elvis Presley - written-by
  • Mae Boren Axton - written-by
  • Tommy Durden - written-by
  • Leonard Cohen - written-by

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