Despite how busy Leonard Cohen has been with a couple years’ worth of comeback touring, the current coolest guy over 70 hasn’t released an album in six years. Thankfully, that will soon change. After being inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame last Friday (along with folks like Phil Collins and Taylor Swift), however, Cohen announced the followup to 2004’s Dear Heather. Where’s your new album at, fellow awardee Phil Collins?
TwentyFourBit reports the LP will feature songs debuted on last year’s world tour, and that he will soon enter the studio to record them. Among the “10 or 11 songs” that will make it onto the album is “Feels So Good”, which invited some well-deserved buzz last November.
Speaking to Rolling Stone at the Hall of Fame event, Cohen said that “God willing” the album will be completed by the spring of 2011. So we’re looking at an album that’s pretty far away, but Cohen will be all over the place from July until October — who knows what YouTubes will spring up?
Leonard Cohen 2010 Tour Dates:
07/25 – Zagreb, HR @ Arena Zagreb
07/27 – Salzburg, AT @ Salzburg Festival
07/31 – Sligo, IE @ Lissadell House
08/01 – Sligo, IE @ Lissadell House
08/04 – Malmo, SE @ Malmo Arena
08/06 – Oslo, NO @ Oslo Spektrum
08/08 – Stockholm, SE @ Stockholm Globe Arena
08/10 – Helsinki, FI @ Hartwell Arena
08/12 – Gothenberg, SE @ Scandinavium
08/14 – Odense, DK @ Engen Fruens Bøge
08/18 – Berlin, DE @ Waldbuhne
08/20 – Gent, BE @ St. Peter’s Square
08/21 – Gent, BE @ St. Peter’s Square
08/22 – Gent, BE @ St. Peter’s Square
09/01 – Florence, IT @ Santa Croce
09/03 – Wiesbaden, DE @ Bowling Green
09/05 – Burgenland, AT @ Sankt Margarethen im
09/08 – Basel, CH @ St. Jakobshalle
09/15 – Caen, FR @ Zenith
09/17 – Grenoble, FR @ Palais des Sports
09/19 – Strasbourg, FR @ Zenith
09/21 – Marseille, FR @ Le Dome
09/23 – Tours, FR @ Parc Des Expositions
09/25 – Lille, FR @ Zenith Grand Palais
09/27 – Hannover, DE @ AWD-Arena
10/04 – Katowice, PL @ Spodek
10/07 – Moscow, RU @ Kremlin Palace
10/13 – Bratislava, SL @ Incheba Expo Arena