After winning a GRAMMY for his soulful ballad “Walking in
Memphis,” Marc Cohn solidified his place as one of this
generation’s most compelling singer/songwriters, combining the
precision of a brilliant tunesmith with the passion of a great soul
man. He’s a natural storyteller, balancing the exuberant with the
poignant, and able to distill universal truth out of his often
romantic, drawn-from-life tales. Cohn followed up his platinum-selling
debut with two more releases in the 1990s, atwhich point TIME magazine
called him "one of the honest, emotional voices we need inthis decade"
and Bonnie Raitt declared, "Marc is one of the most soulful, talented
artistsI know. I love his songs, he's an incredible singer, and I
marvel at his ability to mesmerizeevery audience he plays for." Raitt,
James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash and Patty Griffin all made
guest appearances on Cohn’s early records for Atlanta, as his
reputation as an artist and performer continued to grow. In 1998, Cohn
took a decade-long sabbatical from recording, ending in 2007 with Join
the Parade. Inspired by the horrific events followingHurricane Katrina
and his own near fatal shooting just weeks before, Parade is his most
moving and critically acclaimed record to date. About his album
Listening Booth: 1970, a collection of reimagined classics from that
seminal year in music, Rolling Stone said, “Cohn has one of rock’s
most soulful croons -a rich immediately recognizable tenor that makes
these songs his own.” In late 2014,Cohn released, “The Coldest
Corner in the World,” the title song to the documentaryTree Man and
his first original song released in more than seven years. On March
25, 2016, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his
platinum-selling debutalbum, Marc proudly released Careful What you
Dream: Lost Songs and Rarities and thebonus album, Evolution of a
Record, featuring never-before-heard songs and demosdating back to
years before his debut album and the Grammy Award that followed.
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