Original Album Classics

Tracklist

• CD 1: New Skin for the Old Ceremony
• 1
  Is This What You Wanted
  4:17
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Chelsea Hotel #2
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Lover Lover Lover
  3:22
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Field Commander Cohen
  4:02
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Why Don’t You Try
  3:52
  4.0 ★
• 6
  There Is a War
  3:02
  4.5 ★
• 7
  A Singer Must Die
  3:20
  5.0 ★
• 8
  I Tried to Leave You
  2:41
  4.5 ★
• 9
  Who by Fire
  2:36
  4.4 ★
• 10
  Take This Longing
  4:09
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Leaving Green Sleeves
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• CD 2: Death of a Ladies’ Man
• 1
  True Love Leaves No Traces
  4:26
  3.6 ★
• 2
  Iodine
  5:03
  4.2 ★
• 3
  Paper-Thin Hotel
  5:41
  4.3 ★
• 4
  Memories
  5:59
  4.3 ★
• 5
  I Left a Woman Waiting
  3:28
  3.7 ★
• 6
  Don’t Go Home With Your Hard-On
  5:36
  3.9 ★
• 7
  Fingerprints
  2:58
  4.2 ★
• 8
  Death of a Ladies’ Man
  9:19
  5.0 ★
• CD 3: Recent Songs
• 1
  The Guests
  6:38
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Humbled in Love
  5:15
  4.0 ★
• 3
  The Window
  5:55
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Came So Far for Beauty
  4:03
  4.0 ★
• 5
  The Lost Canadian
  4:40
  4.0 ★
• 6
  The Traitor
  6:14
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Our Lady of Solitude
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 8
  The Gypsy’s Wife
  5:12
  4.0 ★
• 9
  The Smokey Life
  5:18
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Ballad of the Absent Mare
  6:20
  4.0 ★

More by Leonard Cohen

I’m Your Man

I’m Your Man 1988

Songs of Leonard Cohen

Songs of Leonard Cohen 1967

Death of a Ladies’ Man

Death of a Ladies’ Man 1977

New Skin for the Old Ceremony

New Skin for the Old Ceremony 1974

Songs of Love and Hate

Songs of Love and Hate 1971

Thanks for the Dance

Thanks for the Dance 2019

Release credits

• Abraham Laboriel
  bass [1, 3, 6]
• Agostin Cervantes
  violin [5, 10]
• Allen Ginsberg
  background vocals [6]
• Armando Quintero
  violin [5, 10]
• Bernie Grundman
  mastering [1-10]
• Bill Diez
  background vocals [6]
• Bill Ginn
  electric piano [2, 9], piano [7]
• Bob Dylan
  background vocals [6]
• Bob Robitaille
  assistant [1-8]
• Bruce Gold
  assistant [1-8]
• Derek Dunan
  assistant [1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10, 10]
• Don Menza
  horn [1-8]
• Earle Dumler
  cor anglais [9], oboe [7]
• Edgar Lustgarten
  cello [3]
• Filipe Perez
  guitar [5, 10]
• Frank Laico
  engineer [1-11]
• Garth Hudson
  accordion [8], piano [7]
• Greg Falken
  assistant [1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10, 10]
• Henry Lewy
  mix [1-10], producer [1-10], recording [1-10]
• Jennifer Warnes
  arranger [1-10], background vocals [1, 3], lead vocals [9]
• Jeremy Lubbock
  conductor [6, 9], strings [6, 9]
• Jim Gilstrap
  background vocals [2]
• John Bilezikjian
  oud [1, 3, 6, 8]
• John Lissauer
  arranger [1-11], co [4], piano [4], producer [1-11]
• John Miller
  bass [4]
• Jose Perez
  trumpet [5, 10]
• Julia Waters
  background vocals [2]
• Larry Levine
  engineer [1-8]
• Leanne Ungar
  assistant [1-11]
• Leonard Cohen
  acoustic guitar [1, 3, 6, 8-9], arranger [5], guitar [10], lead vocals, producer [1.1-11, 3.1-10]
• Luiz Briseño
  conductor [5], violin [5, 10]
• Maxine Waters
  background vocals [2]
• Miguel Sandoval
  violin [5, 10]
• Mitch Watkins
  electric guitar [2, 7]
• Nino Tempo
  arranger [2, 5], percussion [2, 5]
• Pablo Sandoval
  trumpet [5, 10]
• Paul Ostermayer
  saxophone [2]
• Phil Spector
  arranger [1, 3-4, 6-8], percussion [1, 3-4, 6-7], producer [1-8], vocal arranger [1-8]
• Raffi Hakopian
  violin [1, 3, 6, 8]
• Randy Waldman
  organ [1, 3, 6]
• Ricardo Gonzalez
  guitar [5, 10]
• Rick Rowe
  engineer [1-11], mix [1-11]
• Roger St. Kenerly
  background vocals [2]
• Ronee Blakley
  background vocals [1-2, 4]
• Roscoe Beck
  bass [2, 7-8]
• Skip Cottrell
  assistant [1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10, 10]
• Stan Ross
  assistant [1-8]
• Stephanie Spruill
  background vocals [2]
• Steve Meador
  membranophone [2, 7, 9]
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Issues

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  Original Album Classics

  3x CD
  14 September 2012