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Classically trained cellist Tony Rogers and banjo player Amy McIntire perform their distinctive string music together as The Ahs.

AUSTIN, Texas-based singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt - who plays Miss Peapod's, Penryn, on Friday - is an authentic timeless troubadour in the tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Dave Carter.

Released: Oct 19, 2009 Genre: Folk Label: Columbia Number Of Tracks: 19 While Leonard Cohen's set at 1970's Isle of Wight Festival is folk music at its purest, his poetic lyrical construction will keep most listeners mesmerized.

The Year : 1969 The Album : Alexander 'Skip' Spence, Oar Who It Influenced : Beck, Wilco, Tom Waits, Giant Sand, Cat Power, Sandro Perri This year, Scientologist song-and-dance-man Beck started up an online ' Record Club ,' in which he and his pals - brother-in-law Giovanni Ribisi, producer Nigel Godrich, Devendra Banhart , Little Joy, MGMT - would ...

Boogie Street Hallelujah I'm Your Man A Thousand Kisses Deep Take This Waltz ENCORE So Long, Marianne First We Take Manhattan Famous Blue Raincoat Closing Time If heaven has a house band, you can be sure Leonard Cohen will lead it.

Following up on covering The Velvet Underground & Nico and Songs of Leonard Cohen , Beck's Record Club takes on Skip Spence's classic Oar along with Wilco, Feist and Jamie Lidell.

When not collaborating with Charlotte Gainsbourg on IRM , Beck continues adding covers collections to his Record Club.

Zen Cohen When Leonard Cohen took the stage at TPAC 's Jackson Hall last Thursday night, he and his band probably could have soaked up the rapturous applause for half an hour, but they went right to work, opening with a breezy rendition of "Dance Me to the End of Love." Sitting in our snug theater seats , we needed about three songs before we got ...

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The first time I heard a Leonard Cohen song, I was 15 or so. My older brothers music tastes had graduated from Bob Dylan and John Prine to other master songwriters like Randy Newman, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen and his album Songs From a Room.I was too nave to appreciate the finer points of some of Cohens lyrics, but I noticed that grainy ...

There ain't no cure for love, he once noted, though his words do come close to serving as some sort of panacea.

In 1929, Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca moved to New York. He didn't like it much and soon left for Cuba.

There's an old saying that trying to talk about music is like "dancing about architecture." It's not always a graceful dance.

Ambitious, charming, unsinkably resourceful and one of the smartest and shrewdest self-promoters in country music, Dolly Parton has grown herself into such a magnificent multimedia superstar over the course of her half-century in show-biz that it's easy to overlook that the possessor of the genre's most angelic, distinctive vocal pipes also is ...

I n some ways, the career of folk empress Judy Collins has come full circle. Take her performance residency last spring.

"Passing Through," Live Songs : Cohen strolls through time and encounters historical figures.

Today at at 8 p.m. Tickets: $49.50-$250 Call: 671-5100 Sharon Robinson was just a backup singer when she caught the ear of folk legend Leonard Cohen in 1980.

Though now in his mid-70s, iconic singer Leonard Cohen can still crank out his tunes like no one else.

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Last night, about a month after his 75th birthday , Leonard Cohen packed NYC's Madison Square Garden to the rafters.