Reuters reported yesterday that Leonard Cohen will be releasing an album of previously unpublished material in 2012 tentatively entitled Old Ideas. The 77-year old musician announced the album's release on Wednesday in the Spanish town of Oviedo, where he had traveled to receive Spain's "Principe de Asturias" Prize for literature. Apparently the album's content is already recorded, and Cohen says that he's "played it for a few people, and they seem to like it". When asked if he was planning to tour in support of the album, Cohen said "God willing...I never quite know whether there's going to be a tour or not." Let's hope so.
I had the good fortune to meet Cohen back in 2006 or 7 when he was in Austin for a non-performance related visit. Nice guy, and one of my all-time favorite songwriters, hands down. We just had Various Positions playing this morning, as a matter of fact. I regrettably missed his performance at the Long Center in Austin in 2009; good to hear there's another chance coming up to see him.
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