Recent Songs
by Leonard Cohen
- Type: Album
- Released: September 1979
- Label: Columbia
- Country: Canada
- Length: 53:25
- Community rating: 3.61/5 from 6 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Returning to his acoustic folk roots after the chaotic Phil Spector-produced 'Death of a Ladies' Man', Leonard Cohen delivered a profoundly intimate, deeply poetic masterclass. 'Recent Songs' beautifully integrates subtle mariachi brass and eastern instrumentation into incredibly mellow, nocturnal arrangements, highlighting his bittersweet ruminations on love and aging.
Genres
Descriptors: ballad, male-vocals, literary, spirituality, acoustic, minimal
Tracklist
- The Guests (6:40)
- Humbled in Love (5:15)
- The Window (5:56)
- Came So Far for Beauty (4:04)
- The Lost Canadian (Un Canadien Errant) (4:44)
- The Traitor (6:15)
- Our Lady of Solitude (3:13)
- The Gypsy's Wife (5:13)
- The Smokey Life (5:18)
- Ballad of the Absent Mare - Longer Version (6:42)
Credits
- Leonard Cohen - primary artist, producer, written-by, acoustic guitar, arranged by, vocals [duet]
- Jennifer Warnes - arranged by [harmony], arranged by [backing vocals], backing vocals, vocals [duet]
- Glen Christensen - artwork [art director], art direction
- Dianne Lawrence - artwork [cover portrait, illustration], design/illustration
- Bernie Grundman - mastered by, mastering
- Henry Lewy - producer, recorded by, mixed by, mix, recording
- Derek Du Nann - recorded by [assistant], mixed by [assistant]
- Greg Falken - recorded by [assistant], mixed by [assistant], assistant mix, assistant recording
- Skip Cottrell - recorded by [assistant], mixed by [assistant], assistant mix, assistant recording
- Abraham Laboriel - bass
- Randy Waldman - organ
- John Bilezikjian - oud
- Raffi Hakopian - violin, violin [solo]
- Jim Gilstrap - backing vocals
- Julia Tillman Waters - backing vocals
- Maxine Willard Waters - backing vocals
- Roger St. Kenerly - backing vocals
- Stephanie Spruill - backing vocals
- Roscoe Beck - bass
- Steve Meador - drums
- Mitch Watkins - electric guitar
- Bill Ginn - electric piano
- Paul Ostermayer - saxophone
- Edgar Lustgarten - cello
- John Miller - bass
- John Lissauer - co-producer, arranged by, piano, written-by
- Luiz Brise帽o - conductor [mariachi band], violin
- Ricardo Gonzalez - guitar
- Filipe Perez - guitar [biguela]
- Everado Sandoval - guitarr贸n
- Jose Perez - trumpet
- Pablo Sandoval - trumpet
- Agostin Cervantes - violin
- Armando Quintero - violin
- Miguel Sandoval - violin
- Antoine G茅rin-Lajoie - written-by
- Jeremy Lubbock - arranged by [strings], conductor [strings]
- Earl Dumler - oboe, english horn
- Garth Hudson - piano [yamaha], accordion
- Derek Dunan - assistant mix, assistant recording