Cohen Leonard - Lonesome Heroes Dvd Documentary

Facts Although it's often difficult to detect the influences in the work of Leonard Cohen, as with all significant artists, he was informed by a far reaching list of performers, musicians, writers, poets and philosophies. And, when we look in the right places, his sources reveal themselves in the songs we often think of as wholly the result of Leonard's genius, vision and circumstances. In Leonard Cohen's Lonesome Heroes, the scope and detail of his artistic inspirations is put under the microscope to quite fascinating result. Cohen's first love was poetry and in the works of the Spanish poet Garcia Lorca and his fellow Canadian, Irvine Layton he found the words that moved him to create his own verse. The beat writers too hit a note with Leonard and their work has lived with him throughout his career. It may not come as a surprise to find Bob Dylan and Judy Collins as part of this index, but perhaps a less acknowledged genre of interest to Cohen is Country music - however he