Music List

The 10 Best Leonard Cohen Covers

By Jim Allen

When you're covering Cohen, you either hit it out of the ballpark or skulk back to the bullpen with your head hung low in shame. These are the performers who took the leap without looking down, and were probably as surprised as anyone at their timely encounter with a trampoline before hitting the bottom.

CRITICAL LIST

Here it Is

Jonathan Richman

Avalanche

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Everybody Knows

Concrete Blonde

Ballad of a Runaway Horse

Emmylou Harris

Famous Blue Raincoat

Jennifer Warnes

Bird On A Wire

Tim Hardin

Dance Me to the End of Love

Madeleine Peyroux

Heart With No Companion

Ron Sexsmith

Winter Lady

Palace

Suzanne

Pearls Before Swine