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Lent Begins

By The Daily Dish
Feb 25 2009, 7:33 AM ET

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E.D. Kain does an Ash Wednesday round-up. The austere, spiritual genius of Leonard Cohen is worth noting here. He is what Joaquin Phoenix wants to be:

“In the years he was away, the work was still there to be found, and people caught up with him,” said Hal Willner, the music producer responsible for “Came So Far for Beauty,” a Cohen concert tribute that toured the world in 2004 and 2005. “The records always kept surfacing, being talked about as influences on the young kids coming up, like Kurt Cobain and Jeff Buckley, and those who listened found themselves being drawn into the songs, in a Venus’ flytrap sort of way.”

Ring the bells that still can ring.



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