Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat

Jennifer Warnes was familiar with Leonard Cohen from a tour of duty as one of his backup singers in the early '70s, but this collection of Cohen's songs must have shocked her AM radio fans who knew her from her '70s country-pop hits and her movie themes, if they were even able to connect the woman who sang, "It's the Right Time of the Night for Makin' Love" with the one who declared, "First we take Manhattan," then we take Berlin" over stinging guitar work by Stevie Ray Vaughan on the opening track here. Read More