Reid Jamieson - Dear Leonard: The Cohen Collection

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:55
Size: 77.6 MB
Styles: Singer-Songwriter
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[4:15] 1. Dance Me To The End Of Love
[3:09] 2. Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye
[4:44] 3. Tower Of Songs
[2:46] 4. Bird On The Wire
[5:11] 5. Alexandra Leaving
[5:03] 6. Suzanne
[4:03] 7. Dear Leonard
[4:39] 8. Hallelujah

Though still primarily known in and around his native Vancouver, singer-songwriter Reid Jamieson is a frequent flyer here at Cover Lay Down thanks to a grinning, gorgeous way with the songs of others and an especially prolific penchant towards interpretation: he’s previously published an album of Elvis songs and dozens of single-shot coverage tracks; in 2011, we offered his tribute to the songs of 1969, recorded for his wife’s birthday, as a release-day exclusive. Reido’s newest homage Dear Leonard: The Cohen Collection takes on the songs of Leonard Cohen lovingly and gleefully, and we’ve been stuck on it since it dropped in March. Like most of his work, it is deceptively light; the intros hit like Caribbean elevator music, and Reido’s husky tenor is sweet and plaintive as always. But there’s a huge diversity here, and something truly triumphant about the brightening of sound in songs like Suzanne, which tingles with robust steel drum rhythms and spousal harmonies, the driving countrified romp of Tower Of Song, and Hey That’s No Way To Say Goodbye, which gets turned on it’s ear, transforming the somber, pensive original into a bright and upbeat trainsong, chugging along light and lively with perfect layers of overdubbed harmony, gentle guitars and brushes. Elsewhere, ukes, brushes, and fiddle hold sway, adding flourishes and finishing touches to a sweet, sweet EP from somewhere under the sunniest of cowboy skies.

Dear Leonard: The Cohen Collection

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