Posthumous Leonard Cohen Album ‘Thanks for the Dance’ Earns Nomination for Best Folk Album
MIKE CRISOLAGO | NOVEMBER 24TH, 2020
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The posthumous album 'Thanks for the Dance' by Leonard Cohen, pictured above during a 2012 performance, received a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album for the 2021 Grammy Awards.
In 2016, Leonard Cohen — then 82 and suffering from terminal cancer — recorded what fans believed would be his final album, You Want It Darker. But during those sessions he recorded extra tracks and instructed his son — singer-songwriter and producer Adam Cohen — to use them to create a posthumous album.
Cohen died in November 2016 and about seven months later, Adam returned to his Los Angeles backyard studio in a converted garage to bring his father’s voice back to life. The result, Thanks for the Dance (2019), today delivered Cohen one more accolade — a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album.
“This record has a kind of romance and sensuousness that didn’t have a place on You Want It Darker, but these songs had been begun, and then they were never discarded. They just weren’t completed in time. That’s all,” the younger Cohen explained to Zoomer last November. “When you hear the language and the wisdom and the position from the narrator, it’s so old and thunderous and masterful that it needs no explanation for why it exists and why it’s resonant.”
The 2021 Grammy Award nominations were announced today and have the potential to prove a family affair. Fellow Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, 47, who is also the father of Cohen’s granddaughter, Viva Katherine Wainwright, landed a nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for his disc Unfollow the Rules — his first album of original songs in eight years.
Wainwright faces tough competition in the category though, going up against James Taylor, 72 (American Standard), Renée Zellweger, 51 (Judy), Harry Connick, Jr., 53 (True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter) and Burt Bacharach, 92, and Daniel Tashian (Blue Umbrella). If Bacharach wins, at age 92 he’ll become the fourth oldest Grammy winner in history.
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Leonard Cohen earns posthumous nomination
The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, November 24, 2020 3:54PM EST
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Leonard Cohen was also nominated posthumously for best folk album. His son Adam composed music to the words of his father, who died in November 2016, to produce 'Thanks for the Dance' in November 2019. Rufus Wainwright, meanwhile, is a finalist for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, with 'Follow the Rules'.
Songs and albums released between Sept. 1, 2019 and Aug. 31, 2020 were eligible for the Grammy this year. The 63rd annual ceremony will air Jan. 31 on CBS and Citytv.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 24, 2020.