Live Songs

Live Songs
Live album by
ReleasedApril 1973
Recorded1970, 1972
GenreContemporary folk
Length49:10
LabelColumbia
ProducerBob Johnston
Leonard Cohen chronology
Songs of Love and Hate
(1971)
Live Songs
(1973)
New Skin for the Old Ceremony
(1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB+[2]
Uncut[3]

Live Songs, recorded in 1970 and 1972, released in 1973, during the three-year silence between Songs of Love and Hate and New Skin for the Old Ceremony, is Leonard Cohen's first officially released live album; though Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 had been recorded in 1970, that album was not released until 2009.

  1. ^ "Live Songs Review by Daniel Browne". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: C". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 23, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Williamson, Nigel (December 1997). "Cohen on CD: more songs about sex, death and raincoats...". Uncut. No. 7. p. 26-27.