Famous Blue Raincoat (album)

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For the song with the same name, see Famous Blue Raincoat.

Famous Blue Raincoat
Cover album by Jennifer Warnes
Released	January 1987
Recorded	1986 The Complex, Amigo Studios, Hollywood Sound, The Enterprise, Mama Jo's, Salty Dog Recording, The Record Plant
Genre	Rock
Length	41:32
Label	Private Music Cypress Records
Producer	C. Roscoe Beck, Jennifer Warnes
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Jennifer Warnes chronology
Shot Through the Heart (1979) Famous Blue Raincoat (1987) The Hunter (1992)

Famous Blue Raincoat is the 6th album by Jennifer Warnes, and her first with the Private Music label.

Released in 1987, Famous Blue Raincoat is a tribute to Leonard Cohen, whom Warnes had toured with as a backup singer in the 70s. The songs span much of Cohen's career, from his 1969 second album Songs from a Room to his 1984 album Various Positions (which Warnes sang on), and even two tracks from his then-unreleased album I'm Your Man.

Guest contributors include guitarists Stevie Ray Vaughan, David Lindley and Robben Ford, keyboardist Russell Ferrante, arranger Van Dyke Parks and Cohen himself duetting on "Joan of Arc."

The liner notes include a cartoon by Cohen of a torch being passed with the caption, "Jenny Sings Lenny."

The album is considered one of the best-produced of all time, despite its age, and is often used by audiophiles to test or demonstrate high-end stereo equipment to this day. It was recorded on Sony digital equipment.

In August of 2007, a remastered and expanded 20th anniversary edition was released.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Leonard Cohen except where noted.

1. "First We Take Manhattan" – 3:47
2. "Bird on a Wire" – 4:42
3. "Famous Blue Raincoat" – 5:33
4. "Joan of Arc" – 7:57
5. "Ain't No Cure for Love" – 3:21
6. "Coming Back to You" – 3:43
7. "Song of Bernadette" – 3:55 (Jennifer Warnes/Bill Elliott/Leonard Cohen)
8. "A Singer Must Die" – 4:52
9. "Came So Far for Beauty" – 3:37 (Leonard Cohen/John Lissauer)

[edit] Additional tracks on 20th anniversary edition

10. "Night Comes On"
11. "Ballad of the Runaway Horse"
12. "If It Be Your Will"
13. "Joan of Arc (Live in Belgium)"

    
    

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