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Other tour members included violinist Raffi Hakopian, oudist John Bilezikjian, and backup singers Laura Branigan, Jennifer Warnes and Sharon Robinson. Beck would become a stalwart of Cohen's studio and live bands for more than a decade afterwards. The album cover portrait was taken by Montreal photographer, Hazel Field.
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- February 20, 2001 (copyrighted 2000)
- Leanne Ungar
- Contemporary folk
Warnes had kept singing with Leonard Cohen, and once again accepted his invitation to tour with him on 1979’s Field Commander Cohen tour and his album Recent Songs. That tour introduced her to the Austin band Passenger, jazz-fusion hotshots who would play with Warnes when they weren’t on the road with Cohen.
Apr 2, 2001 · Cohen also performs with a backup singer, Jennifer Warnes, who in "The Smokey Life" and "The Gypsy's Wife" represents another sensuous and intelligent reason why Field Commander Cohen...
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Feb 20, 2001 · The program is a cross selection of songs from Cohen's recording career up through 1979, with a generous sprinkling of his strongest early songs ("The Stranger Song," "Bird On a Wire," "So Long, Marianne," "Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye"), as well as a terrific sampling of songs from the mid-to-late 1970s ("Lover, Lover, Lover," "Why Don't ...
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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2000 CD release of "Field Commander Cohen - Tour Of 1979" on Discogs.
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She toured Europe with Cohen's band in 1972 and 1979 — first as a back-up singer and then as a vocal arranger and guest singer on Cohen's albums Live Songs (1973), Recent Songs (1979), Various Positions (1985), I'm Your Man (1988), The Future (1992), Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979 (2001), and Old Ideas (2012).
May 19, 2014 · FIELD COMMANDER COHEN was compiled in 2000 from recordings of the 1979 tour, and it presents an especially strong argument for Cohen's gifts as a musician. This is the first ever vinyl release of these live recordings at London's Hammersmith Odeon and Brighton's Dome Theatre.
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