Ten New Songs

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Ten New Songs
Studio album by Leonard Cohen
Released	October 9, 2001
Recorded	late 1999–mid 2001
Genre	Rock
Length	52:47
Label	Columbia
Producer	Sharon Robinson
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone (favorable) link
Leonard Cohen chronology
Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979 (2001) Ten New Songs (2001) The Essential Leonard Cohen (2002)

Ten New Songs is Leonard Cohen's tenth studio album, released in 2001. It was co-written and produced by Sharon Robinson. She played all the instruments except Bob Metzger's guitar on 'In My Secret Life'. The album peaked at #143 on the Billboard list, #4 in Canada, and #1 in Norway.

Ten New Songs was the first Cohen album to be recorded and produced digitally, although not in a professional studio, but in Cohen's and Robinson's own home studios in Los Angeles.

[edit] Track listing

All songs were written by Cohen and Robinson.

1. "In My Secret Life" – 4:55
2. "A Thousand Kisses Deep" – 6:29
3. "That Don't Make It Junk" – 4:28
4. "Here It Is" – 4:18
5. "Love Itself" – 5:26
6. "By the Rivers Dark" – 5:20
7. "Alexandra Leaving" – 5:25
8. "You Have Loved Enough" – 5:41
9. "Boogie Street" – 6:04
10. "The Land of Plenty" – 4:35

The song 'Boogie Street' is discussed in the Wikipedia entry for Bugis Street. 'Alexandra Leaving' is an interpretation of the poem The God Abandons Antony by Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy, it was selected by John Cale as one of his ten songs chosen for the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs^[1].

[edit] Cover recordings

Both Eric Burdon and Katie Melua have recorded 'In My Secret Life'.

Luciana Souza recorded 'Here It Is' on her album The New Bossa Nova.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20040222.shtml Desert Island Discs - John Cale page

• discog.com entries: [1][2][3]

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