A new film charts the continued popularity of a Leonard Cohen song that took on a life of its own.
,” says Judy Collins of the Leonard Cohen song which is among the most covered of the 21st century: by cabaret and country singers, pop and pop-opera stars, on children’s movie soundtracks and at hard rock concerts, by people who know every word of Cohen’s catalogue and those who couldn’t identify him in a lineup of one.
It’s also because the song’s gracefulness, modest range, elegant chord changes, and capacity for expansion and contraction, not to mention, as one musician puts it, the way Cohen uses “words in a sacramental way” so that the spiritual and carnal entwined, made it seem as if any one of us could try it.So much so that American roots singer Brandi Carlile, who explains the song helped her reconcile her sexuality and her faith, declares“is its own person now”.
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