What song would you want to be added to the set list?

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Re: What song would you want to be added to the set list?

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I've been to three concerts this year - Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow - and would have loved to have heard Alexandra Leaving.......... Not to worry though, all the others were wonderful!!!
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Last night I listened to the MEMORIES on Field Commander Cohen CD, and I realised it would be great with Dino Soldo on saxes, and Mas on mandolin plus Larsen's keyboards/organs. Maybe in little slower rhythm, but Leonard's voice is now great for this song.
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Famous Blue Raincoat is a must... it's so beautiful. it's sad they left it out the live cd.

One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong would also be beautiful. I'd also like to hear Dress Rehearsal Rag
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"The Land of Plenty" would be an agreeable choice.
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Ballad of the Absent Mare

very touching and moving on one level....even moreso on a Zen level.....

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Avalanche. I know it's been done a few times but not very much.

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Famous Blue Raincoat, but really an impossible question to answer...
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Night Comes on..
It's sort of talking to the ghost.(Talking to his dead mother, actually)
It might sound really haunting now when his voice got a bit hoarse....
No he very rarely performs it. (Perhaps it's too personal.....)
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Apart from some of those already mentioned, I would like to hear:

The Window
Coming Back to You
I Can't Forget

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I don't think he has sung Heart With No Companion on the last two European tours but that is one song I'd like to hear -without excluding anything else of course.

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I would love to see The Gypsy's Wife back in the set list. What better place than Barcelona, Javier's hometown, where his artistry can be showcased even more.
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I'm still reeling from two inspiring nights in Dublin - Wednesday and Thursday. Perhaps the last time I'll see Leonard in concert will be in Lisbon next week. Our son is coming with us to the concert. I asked him what he'd like to hear. Well he could have knocked me out -Memories.
Two from a myriad of questions - what influences the set list, what made Leonard exclude Famous Blue Raincoat for so long.
I can't help thinking that when L.C. thanks the audience for keeping his songs alive a spontaneous feeling for me is that I/we should thank him -in many ways his music is a profound and loving teacher.

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Night comes on....

Light as a Breeze...

Famous Blue Raincoat.

I love Closing Time
and I had to leave you...
especially at the end of the evening...

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Love Calls You By Your Name
"We are so lightly here"
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Lover, Lover, Lover

Ballad of the Absent Mare

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