Cohen Live

{{Infobox album | name = Cohen Live | type = live | artist = Leonard Cohen | cover = Leonard Cohen In Concert.jpg | alt = | released = June 28, 1994 | recorded = 1988, 1993 | venue = | studio = | genre = Contemporary folk, soft rock | length = 71:50 | label = Sony | producer = Leanne Ungar, Bob Metzger | prev_title = The Future | prev_year = 1992 | next_title = More Best of Leonard Cohen | next_year = 1997 }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = Robert Christgau | rev1Score = {{Rating-Christgau|neither}}<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=791&name=Leonard+Cohen | title=Robert Christgau: CG: Leonard Cohen }}</ref> | rev2 = ''Uncut'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Williamson |first=Nigel |author-link=Nigel Williamson |date=December 1997 |title=Cohen on CD: more songs about sex, death and raincoats... |magazine=Uncut |page=26-27 |issue=7}}</ref> }}

'''''Cohen Live''''' is a live album by Leonard Cohen released in 1994.

The songs were recorded live in 1988 on the I'm Your Man Tour and in 1993 on The Future World Tour. Several of the songs have altered lyrics, which are printed in the liner notes as sung.<ref>Booklet for Columbia CD 4771712</ref> This was Cohen's first live release since ''Live Songs'' in 1973. Reviews were mixed, with ''Time'' writing, "This glum, melancholy collection should be dispensed only with large doses of Prozac."

==Track listing== All songs written by Leonard Cohen, except where noted

{{Tracklisting | extra_column = Place and date | title1 = Dance Me to the End of Love | length1 = 6:10 | extra1 = Toronto, June 17, 1993 | title2 = Bird on the Wire | length2 = 6:53 | extra2 = Toronto, June 17, 1993 | title3 = Everybody Knows | length3 = 6:08 | writer3 = Cohen, Sharon Robinson | extra3 = Vancouver, July 29, 1993 | title4 = Joan of Arc | length4 = 6:13 | extra4 = Toronto, June 17, 1993 | title5 = There Is A War | length5 = 4:46 | extra5 = Toronto, June 17, 1993 | title6 = Sisters Of Mercy | length6 = 6:15 | extra6 = Toronto, June 17, 1993 | title7 = Hallelujah | length7 = 6:54 | extra7 = Austin, October 31, 1988 | title8 = I'm Your Man | length8 = 5:29 | extra8 = Toronto, June 17, 1993 | title9 = Who By Fire | length9 = 5:09 | extra9 = Austin, October 31, 1988 | title10 = One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong | length10 = 5:20 | extra10 = San Sebastian, May 20, 1988 | title11 = If It Be Your Will | length11 = 3:18 | extra11 = Austin, October 31, 1988 | title12 = Heart With No Companion | length12 = 4:50 | extra12 = Amsterdam, April 19, 1988 | title13 = Suzanne | length13 = 4:18 | extra13 = Vancouver, July 29, 1993 }}

==Personnel== *Leonard Cohen – guitar, keyboard, vocals *Perla Batalla – vocals *Julie Christensen – vocals *Bob Furgo – keyboards, violin *Bob Metzger – guitars, pedal steel *Steve Meador – drums

;Additional musicians (1988) *John Bilezikjian – oud, mandolin *Tom McMorran – keyboards *Stephen Zirkel – bass, trumpet, keyboards *Roscoe Beck – musical director

;Additional musicians (1993) *Jorge Calderón – bass, vocals *Bill Ginn – keyboards *Paul Ostermayer – saxes, keyboards

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/album11.html Leonard Cohen Files entry (includes lyrics)] *{{Discogs release|1494569|Leonard Cohen – Cohen Live (1994, CD)|type=album}}

Category:Leonard Cohen live albums Category:1994 live albums Category:Sony Music live albums