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special - covers & themes - i'm raving introduction Original version of this track has been recorded by Marc Cohn in 1991, and it's title is 'Walking In Memphis'. Scooter is not the only one who made cover version of this song - Cher has done it too. But her version is much more closer to the original than Scooter's one. biography  So what do you do after winning a Grammy for Best New Artist (1991), having a mammoth hit single ('Walking In Memphis') off your debut album ('Marc Cohn'), seeing that album go platinum, and then coming back two years later with a superbly-realized set of introspective songs collected on another acclaimed work ('The Rainy Season')?
Try taking four years off...
Which is not to suggest that Marc Cohn was living off the fat of his celebrity during his unplanned sabbatical. After the whirlwind odyssey that was the beginning of his career, Cohn found things unraveling on the homefront. And inside him. In the New Age parlance that he studiously avoids, he found he needed to do some work on himself. His marriage capsized. He had two young children who needed more attention than his music. And yet the music was demanding to come out. This, after all, is one of the most personal, most introspective lyricists of his generation. To his (and our) great good fortune, he is also a craftsman par excellence, with a gift of melody and structure that hearkens back to the great American pop composers of yore and touches down in the lands of Jesse Winchester, Joni Mitchell and Robbie Robertson as it moves along the road to today. And like his musical touchstones, he uses the song to find out who he is; and in rummaging around in his own life, he constructs a world that his listeners can recognize as their own in its moving, human qualities. Remember that his debut album was described in one account as a collection of well-observed meditations on dislocation, commitment, the quest for love, and the belief that tomorrow will be a better day. Likewise, 'The Rainy Season' elicited this observation: His is a humanistic view of a world in which people find a degree of nobility in their flawed attempts to be better, to be more compassionate, to be willing to look at life with new eyes instead of falling back on old, destructive habits. Recognize anyone familiar in there? On 'Burning The Daze', his third album, Cohn remains on the path he has been cutting since the opening notes of his first album. 'Burning The Daze', though, represents his most self-revealing effort; moreover, its a statement imbued with a deep sense of spiritual longing. As the stories take shape whether it be in the funkified languor of the albums ironic opener, 'Already Home' (ironic, because the ensuing storyline depicts a man much like Moses, allowed to view the Promised Land but forbidden from entering into it); in the dark, desperate ambiance of 'Lost You In The Canyon', all hard edges and scabrous guitar commentary; or in the confessions heard throughout the tender-hearted 'Healing Hands', with its deliberate piano chording and graceful, swelling strings underscoring the lyrics implied kinship between love and a spiritual state-of-grace we learn that Cohn is still decidedly at-large, seeking salvation, trying to understand the complex dimensions of love, struggling to know himself, sensing in his connection to the land beneath his feet and the stars above his head the moving hand of some greater force charting his souls rocky course. Although its themes are often dark, 'Burning The Daze' represents Cohns most optimistic, uplifting work, charged throughout by the artists undaunted spirit. Ultimately, no matter how treacherous the terrain he navigates, Cohn sees a reason to believe, to go on. Its about living. Listen to the albums final track, 'Ellis Island'. 'Ellis Island': 'where immigrants landed to begin a new life, their fears of the unknown tempered by the bright, shining opportunities they envisioned ahead. As the boat pulled off the shore/I could see the fog was liftin/And lights Id never seen before/Were shining down on Ellis Island', Cohn sings at songs end. Those lights illuminate a new direction Cohn has charted for himself in the eleven songs on 'Burning The Daze'. 'Ellis Island' may well close out the album, but it sounds for all the world like a new beginning. sound samples • 'Walking In Memphis' (mp3) by Marc Cohn - 4min 16sec; 0,98MB; 22kHz Mono • 'Walking In Memphis' (mp3) by Cher - 3min 58sec; 0,9MB; 22kHz Mono pictures • Marc Cohn #1 - 26kB lyrics • 'Walking In Memphis' links to marc cohn related sites • www.marccohn.org • www.bestweb.net/~ecnev/mc/mchome.html copyright • Marc Cohn's biography by imusic.com • 'Walking In Memphis' samples by Scot, used only for information purposes |
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