Dance Me to the End of Love

It's Leonard Cohen night tonight at The Velvet. From 5 to 8, I will be playing a three hour set of Cohen and Covers for fans, including a few songs from his recently released Old Ideas. There's a quote from the article I linked that seems to capture the essence of Cohen's appeal so perfectly that i want to share it with you.

In a pursuit like rock ’n’ roll, which is entirely devoted to redemption, Cohen’s ideas were not only old but radical. His peers all insisted that salvation was at hand. To go to a Doors concert was to stare at the lithe messiah undressing on stage and believe that it was entirely possible to break on through to the other side. To see Cohen play was to gawk at an aging Jew telling you that life was hard and laced with sorrow but that if we love each other and fuck one another and have the mad courage to laugh even when the sun is clearly setting, we’ll be just all right.