We get a detailed account of how I’m Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen came together via revealing interviews with its curators and performers. Using the famed Leonard Cohen covers collection as its jumping-off point, Ray Padgett’s I’m Your Fan digs into the weird, ever-expanding world of the tribute album. – Mark Richardson, former Editor-in-Chief, Pitchfork A marvelous entry in the 33 1/3 series, even for those who’ve never heard the album in question. “I’m Your Fan” uses a specific tribute album to explore multiple aspects of music fandom and record culture-how artists channel their influences, how a song’s meaning can change over time, the way formats shape our understanding of music history. – Alan Light, author of The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah” – David Marchese, Columnist, New York Times MagazineĪ smart and lively look at a project that was oddly significant in Leonard Cohen’s career – but, beyond that, a long-overdue examination that (partly) redeems the much reviled format of the tribute album. In the same way that John Cale made listeners hear “Hallelujah” anew, this book made me hear tribute albums like I’d never heard them before. Ray Padgett’s deeply-researched, passionately written book did what the very best tribute albums do: Recontextualized and deepened the source material. Purchase: Bloomsbury | Amazon | IndieBound | Barnes and Noble | Bookshop I’m Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen Release Date: September 3, 2020
He lives in Burlington, Vermont and works as a publicist for Shore Fire Media. He also runs the email newsletter Flagging Down the Double E’s, essays inspired by live Bob Dylan shows from yesteryear. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, SPIN, The AV Club, Vice, and MOJO, and he’s been interviewed as an expert on cover songs by NPR, The Wall Street Journal, SiriusXM, and dozens more.
Ray Padgett is the founder of Cover Me, the largest blog devoted to cover songs on the web, and author of Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time (2017) and the 33 1/3 book I’m Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (2020).
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