'He'd Asked Me To Complete These Works': Adam Cohen On 'Thanks For The Dance'
Leonard Cohen's son, Adam, speaks about producing his father's posthumous album and how he urged his father to record vocal ideas up until his death.
Three years after his death in November of 2016, there's a new Leonard Cohen album. It's called Thanks for the Dance, and it was completed and produced by his son, singer-songwriter Adam Cohen. NPR's Don Gonyea speaks to Cohen about putting together this album, which he says he started with his father — with his father's full intention that his son would finish it after his death. Listen in the audio player above and read on for a transcript of their conversation.
I read that you started working on this album right after your father's passing in 2016. So you were putting this album together while you were also going through grief. What was that like?
