{"id":3342,"date":"2016-11-16T15:51:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2016-11-16T15:51:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:51:33","slug":"the-powerful-influence-of-leonard-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2016\/11\/the-powerful-influence-of-leonard-cohen.html","title":{"rendered":"The Powerful Influence of Leonard Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar]<\/p>\n<p>IT&#8217;S been a very tough year for music lovers, and the last week or so has been especially rough for other reasons. But the legacy left by the late poet\/ songwriter is something to be grateful for.<\/p>\n<p>In my latest Salon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/11\/15\/leonard-cohens-impact-from-the-60s-to-indie-rockers-and-beyond\/\">story<\/a>, I document the influence of \u00a0Cohen from the earliest covers of his songs (Judy Collins&#8217; &#8220;Suzanne,&#8221; Fairport Convention&#8217;s &#8220;Bird on a Wire&#8221;), through his deep shaping influence on younger figures like Lloyd Cole, Nick Cave, and the young indie rock band Car Seat Headrest.<\/p>\n<p>Had I more space and time, I might have mentioned others influenced by Cohen, like the Silver Jews and Bonnie Prince Billy\/ Palace Music\/ Will Oldham.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Leonard_Cohen17b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Leonard_Cohen17b-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"leonard_cohen17b\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Leonard_Cohen17b-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Leonard_Cohen17b.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In any case, I and many others will miss Cohen deeply.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar] IT&#8217;S been a very tough year for music lovers, and the last week or so has been especially rough for other reasons. But the legacy left by the late poet\/ songwriter is something to be grateful for. In my latest Salon story, I document the influence of \u00a0Cohen from the earliest covers of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,34,30],"tags":[733,739,738,714,737,736],"class_list":{"0":"post-3342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brit-culture","7":"category-literary","8":"category-los-angeles","9":"tag-1960s","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-leonard-cohen","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-pico-iyer","14":"tag-richard-thompson","15":"entry","16":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}