Mourning the Greats: Leonard Cohen, Leon Russell and Mose Allison

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Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

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🗓️ 18 November 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This year has seen the loss of Prince, David Bowie, Merle Haggard, and, now, three more towering figures have died. A look at their legacies.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:04.8	podcast, your bird on a wire of music news and criticism. I'm your host John
0:09.2	Karamonica.
0:10.2	Everybody knows that the days are loaded.
0:14.0	Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.
0:19.0	Everybody knows the war is over
0:23.0	everybody knows the good guys lost
0:28.0	everybody knows that the fight was fixed
0:32.0	the poor stay poor, the rich get rich.
0:37.2	It's been dark days in pop music, the last couple weeks,
0:40.4	for a variety of reasons.
0:42.2	Most loudly, we've lost a couple of real heavy hitters.
0:46.0	I've got John Perales, Chief Pop Music Critic of the New York Times.
0:49.0	Hey John. And we were just listening to everybody knows.
0:52.0	By Leonard Cohen. By Leonard Cohen.
0:53.0	By Leonard Cohen.
0:53.6	It was such a great loss.
0:54.8	Who about a week ago died in his sleep.
0:58.5	And we're going to be talking about Leonard Cohen today.
1:00.8	We're going to be talking about Mo's Allison. And we're also going to be talking about Mose Allison and we're also going to be
1:03.2	talking about Leon Russell. It's been a very, very dark week. But we're going to start with
1:08.0	Leonard Cohen and JP, you've interviewed Leonard a couple of times. You just showed me this 1995 story where I know you're going to talk about what he said, but I'm going to talk about what you said for a second, which is that you said he's the Aryites version or satisfies an Ariadites needs for both
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