he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

Sometimes it snows and you switch on the TV and find, among monster truck rallies and cooking shows, music that you love sung and played how you’d never imagined it, and you love it more, again, through tears and smiles and memories. From the documentary, “Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man”

Nick Cave sings “Suzanne.” He also sang “Tower of Song,” rather campily, on the “I’m Your Fan” record years ago. This one is simpler and more humble.

I never paid much attention to “Tonight Will Be Fine” when Leonard did it, but put in in the hands of a countrified son of British folk icons, I can’t tell whether it’s a smokey 1990 Tuesday night in the Continental Club or Sunday morning in my living room.

Here’s Teddy slaying the room & channeling George Jones.