Just some Joseph looking for a manger

I still vividly remember the first time I heard Leonard Cohen’s music, even though more than 40 years have since passed. It was in the early hours of the morning at the tail end of a party in the spring of 1968. The drinking and the dancing had died down and a number of us were sitting around in various stages of exhaustion and mild inebriation, when someone put Songs of Leonard Cohen on …