Leonard Cohen’s Songs From the Road review

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Leonard Cohen’s new concert DVD Songs From the Road just shouldn’t work. Its subject is a rock star who is 75 years old who never quite fit the rock-star mold in the first place—Canadian (okay, cheap shot there), poet, introspective, reserved, a crooner with a weird voice. Onstage he just sort of—well, stands there and sings, usually with eyes closed and face half-obscured by a completely un-ironic fedora. He and his musicians hardly move. His most famous song, “Hallelujah,” is revered, but usually in cover form courtesy of the beautiful, tragic voice of Jeff Buckley. His influences range from traditional Eastern European ballads to folk to cabaret to sacred music. And no two songs sound the same.