One of the really neat things about going to college is that you meet all these new people with all different sort of musical tastes. Going to Bard, these tastes generally exclude the Frat Boy musical diet of Dave Matthews (an artist I actually enjoy, but I digress), Jack Johnson, and whatever gangster rapper happens to be banging 'hos with his gold plated penis on the Billboard Top 40 this week. Now, that does mean that the concentration of people who know Beirut is higher than any other place on the planet, but that is a good thing rather than a bad one. Occasionally, however, you find someone who loves an artists that you just missed, and that happened to me this morning. My roommate has professed his love for Leonard Cohen on more than one occasion, and I finally remember to take a listen.

I'm pretty much hooked.

There's something incredibly captivating about the soft folk music and baritone voiced poetry that define the Cohen I've been listening to, and the fact that I'd missed it until now...
well, it really is a shame. The only album I've been able to dig into so far is The Songs of Leonard Cohen, but I'm hoping that over the next little bit I can captivated by as much of Leonard as possible.

As a side note, check out The Sand Band. THIS post about them from I Guess I'm Floating reminded me to check out Cohen.

Leonard Cohen - The Master Song