Blog: Hyperbolium

Singer-songwriter covers influential singer-songwriters' songs Contemporary singer-songwriter Marc Cohn offers up an interesting concept album constructed from a dozen covers. The theme is an exploration of a year in which singer-songwriters really took flight, and music first hooked Cohn's soul. As he points out, it was also a year in which both singles and albums flourished commercially, with the latter creating space in which the former could play a bit longer and dig a bit deeper. His selections cover singer-songwriters Cat Stevens ("Wild World") and Van Morrison ("Into the Mystic), singer-songwriters who [...]