Warren Zevon doing Leonard Cohen...the old masters at work. While the two auteurs approach to their craft is obviously different, Cohen and Zevon were far from diametric; working the same seam, exorcising tales of the human condition -- not to mention their own demons -- through song. Not surprisingly, the similarities and contrasts of Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman immediately come to mind.
An inspired cover, Zevon's live reworking of "First We Take Manhattan" injects a bitter bite into the Cohen original . . .
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