Avalanche (song)
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"Avalanche" is a song by Leonard Cohen. It appears on his third album, Songs of Love and Hate, released in 1971.
The lyrics are based on a poem he had previously written. The music is notoriously difficult to play on the guitar. Cohen went on record saying "Every guitarist has one chop, and I used mine on Avalanche". He acknowledged in a 1992 interview with Paul Zollo that his "chop", his unique pattern of playing, is behind many of his early songs.[1]
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds recorded a version of the song for their 1984 album From Her to Eternity.
[edit] References
- ^ Zollo, Paul (1997). "Interview with Leonard Cohen, Los Angeles, 1992", Songwriters on Songwriting (expanded edition). Da Capo Press. ISBN 0306807777.
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