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âHallelujahâ by Leonard Cohen is one of the greatest songs ever written. So itâs no surprise that leonardcohenfiles.com currently lists 2,040 covers of Leonard Cohen songs. And that doesnât count all the YouTubers posting their âCover of Jeff Buckleyâs âHallelujah.ââ. 15. Amanda Palmer.
And just last year, the Afro-American poet Kamau Daaoud recorded Balm of Gilead (for Billie Holiday and Lester Young) for his album Leimert Park. Today Daaoud explains that âtheir friendship arose from this common understanding of the nature of the world that they lived, and the nature of the pain they had to struggle through to do what they had to doâ.