{"id":1981,"date":"2012-01-16T11:33:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T16:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2012-01-16T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T19:13:18","slug":"going-home-first-single-from-leonard-cohens-upcoming-album-now-streaming-at-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/16\/going-home-first-single-from-leonard-cohens-upcoming-album-now-streaming-at-the-new-yorker\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Going Home&#8221;, first single from Leonard Cohen&#8217;s upcoming album, now streaming at The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* 468 x 60 Banner bottom *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3159198192\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\nThe New Yorker is the first to post a streaming version of Leonard Cohen&#8217;s new single? That&#8217;s a story in itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/2012\/01\/leonard-cohens-going-home-new-song.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to listen to &#8220;Going Home&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics are published as a poem in the current issue of the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>I think fair use means that I should only publish a snippet here:<\/p>\n<p>I love to speak with Leonard<br \/>\nHe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a sportsman and a shepherd<br \/>\nHe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lazy bastard<br \/>\nLiving in a suit<\/p>\n<p>But he does say what I tell him<br \/>\nEven though it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t welcome<br \/>\nHe will never have the freedom<br \/>\nTo refuse<\/p>\n<p>He will speak these words of wisdom<br \/>\nLike a sage, a man of vision<br \/>\nThough he knows he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really nothing<br \/>\nBut the brief elaboration of a tube<br \/>\n[continued]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fiction\/poetry\/2012\/01\/23\/120123po_poem_cohen\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the entire poem.<\/p>\n<p>So what would we have to do to get Leonard Cohen to Savannah? <\/p>\n<p><em>Old Ideas<\/em>, his first album in almost 7 years, will be released on January 31st.<\/p>\n<p>Update (HT to Jason): Here are a couple more tracks from the upcoming album, &#8220;Darkness&#8221; and &#8220;Show Me the Place&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"81\" width=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F32974013\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object>  <span><a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/leonardcohen\/leonard-cohen-darkness\">Leonard Cohen &#8211; Darkness<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/leonardcohen\">leonardcohen<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WCtoVoE5Mm4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker is the first to post a streaming version of Leonard Cohen&#8217;s new single? That&#8217;s a story in itself. Click here to listen to &#8220;Going Home&#8221;. The lyrics are published as a poem in the current issue of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/16\/going-home-first-single-from-leonard-cohens-upcoming-album-now-streaming-at-the-new-yorker\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-vX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}