March 1, 2023March 1, 2023 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “Leonard [Cohen]–the boudoir poet the hungry ghost–the perennial penitent. Young girls take him seriously. I did. He seemed so worldly to me as a young woman. He gets funny as you get older.” Joni Mitchell
November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “Because I’d never set up a career — what Joni Mitchell later called the ‘star-stoking machinery’ — for myself, by the time the 70’s came round and everything had gotten hard-nosed and materialistic, I got wiped out.” Leonard Cohen
October 9, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “I remember being overwhelmed by the fertility and the abundance of [Joni Mitchell’s] artistic enterprise” Leonard Cohen
October 7, 2022October 7, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “It was [Joni Mitchell’s] physical beauty that touched me more than her music. The two are connected, but as a young man in the midst of the hormonal avalanche, she was a radiant presence.” Leonard Cohen
August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Looking For The Best Song Referencing Leonard Cohen: That Song About The Midway By Joni Mitchell
March 4, 2022March 4, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Joni Mitchell On The Ubiquity Of “Naked Body” In Leonard Cohen’s songs
February 23, 2022February 23, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “It raised the standard of what I wanted to write.” Joni Mitchell Talks About Hearing Leonard Cohen Sing Suzanne
January 12, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Joni Mitchell Accuses Leonard Cohen Of “Lifting Lines” From Camus; Leonard Cohen Responds
December 10, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Hear Joni Mitchell Talk About Her Search For A Promotion-minded Record Company, Differences In Audiences, & Engelbert Humperdinck (1967)