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Pushkin

Hey, man, you can't be from the city in Iraq, but yeah, that's crazy.

I can't listen to it. I can't listen to it. I can't listen to it.

It's music no more.

Even when Kanye's music is that good, just don't build people up this high.

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On an old new season of making from WBZ Chicago, the rise and fall of Kanye West.

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I first discovered London Cohen like most people through a song, Hallelujah.

A beautiful and complex song with a ton of verses.

But I grew to love him after discovering his early albums, full of nylon string guitars and songs much more succinct than Hallelujah.

The London never got quite the amount of attention that his peers did like Bob Dylan and Paul Simon. He was every bit the poet they are.

Cohen died in 2016 less than a month after the release of his last album.

It was a project recorded in his modest duplex in the mid-wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles.

London made the album with his son Adam Cohen.

It wasn't meant to be his last work, but it felt like a fitting end until this turned up.

Sure we played a stunning couple, but I never liked the part. It ain't pretty and ain't subtle.

What happens to the heart?

While mourning his father's death, Adam took some of the poetry London had recorded and set it to music.

And now, very unexpectedly, we have a brand new album from London Cohen called Thanks for the Dance.

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