This is the first album of his since Songs of Love and Hate that's brought me to tears on the first listening. Beautiful.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/201 ... omers.html

and another, on Popular Problems:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/musi ... iewed.html

John, I'm glad I could bring back memories of the Rock Machine albums for you. I bought "Songs Of" after listening to the "Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye" and hoped upon hope that it wasn't a one-off album. How lucky we all were! I agree that giving Leonard's music long breaks ...

Two years is quite a binge, Lisa! Yes, his music stays in my head even when I'm asleep. I can go to sleep with one song in my head and wake up with another.

I've been listening to Leonard since I first heard Hey That's Not Way To Say Goodbye on the CBS rock sampler album back in the 60's. Anyone else remember that? I find that binge on Leonard for weeks or even months at a time, then not listen to him for a year or two before I come back and repeat the ...

There is a radio interview with Judy Collins available from yesterday, the topic of which is her Wildflowers album. She sings "Priests" and talks about Leonard.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/spinning/2012/oct/28/

Thanks. I never knew that existed.

With the death of Robin Gibb, I've read in several places that Leonard recorded the Bee Gees song To Love Somebody. This is not true, is it?

I went to a wonderful Judy collins concert yesterday, and she talked about Leonard. She said that he recorded the first song she ever wrote "Since You Asked". Did he? I've never seen it on any of his albums.