A Big Sur Podcast
A Big Sur Podcast
An ongoing conversation with people from near and far about Big Sur's past, present, and future. A Big Sur Podcast interprets “community” to mean ALL people from around the world who are curious about, and who care about, the preservation and restoration of the wild and rural character of Big Sur. Stories are told by visitors and residents, plumbers and linesmen, musicians and authors, dancers and jugglers and others. Sometimes we drift (way) off-topic into the arts, sciences, personal stories, gossip, politics, philosophy, ornithology, Henry Miller, and our zeitgeist in general. We like that!
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#47 Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai. A conversation with author Matti Friedman
Talking with Matti Friedman from his home in Jerusalem.
Very grateful to him for writing this book and for sharing his stories!
WHO BY FIRE: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
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In 1973, Leonard Cohen announced he was done with music for good. The same year, in October, war broke out in Israel.
The Yom Kippur War would become the bloodiest in Israel’s young history—and Cohen was there to witness it. As the war broke out, he left his home on the Greek island of Hydra to fly into the warzone.
Leonard Cohen did not say much about why he went to the front. What we know is that in the months that followed, he would write “Who By Fire” and "Lover Lover Lover."
So what was it that happened in the desert in October of 1973 between a depressed musician and young soldiers going off to battle? How did it remake Leonard Cohen? How did it transform those who heard him play? And how did the war transform Israel itself?
Those are some of the questions Matti Friedman explains in his beautiful new book Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai.
Matti and I get into some areas worth thinking about: Non violence, pacifism, militarism, the Poets prerogative, loyalty...
Matti Friedman online.
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Link to episode #28 with Sula Nichols
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btw. My singing a bit of Cohen was to avoid getting into copyright problems. I asked Sony for rights but they have not yet responded. I will replace my a capella singing with proper Cohen if they give us the rights. 😊
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