Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Ballad of a Runaway Horse

Regular visitor Fireblossom brings us Emmylou's rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Ballad of a Runaway Horse" here.

Here, long-time Cohen backup singer Pearl Batalla performs a Spanish-language version of the song with Javier Colis:

1 comment:

Fireblossom said...

oOo, I'm famous!

I absolutely love this song, which Cohen wrote as "Ballad of the Absent Mare", but it worked better for our Emmylou with the gender switched and so the title had to be altered.