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I've posted the third and final installment of DD Fraser & The Stormy Clovers, the personal narrative by David Fougere, who, then known as DD Fraser, was the band’s bass player in the sixties, when they became the first to play Leonard Cohen's music onstage (a year before Judy Collins began covering Leonard Cohen's music). Leonard Cohen himself first performed his songs (rather than recite his poetry) during Stormy Clovers concerts.

This part of the Stormy Clovers story has much to do with Leonard Cohen, then (in the mid-1960s) just beginning his career as a singer-songwriter, and Marianne, who was living with him in Montreal when he and the Clovers first met.

There are also appearances by, among others, David Clayton Thomas, Jesse Winchester, Garth Hudson, and Mary Martin as well as the Stormy Clovers themselves and others associated with them.
DD Fraser & The Stormy Clovers – Part 3: Leonard Cohen, Marianne, And More is a fascinating, well told story.

The post can be found at http://1heckofaguy.com/2012/06/15/dd-fr ... -and-more/

Love this part, about what happened after DD Fraser and his daughter met Leonard in 1993:

"The following week when she was back in high school my daughter was telling one of her friends about the concert. “Oh my God!” her friend said “I only got to meet Sarah McLachlan, but you got to meet… God!"

That was too funny Lisa. I also liked the part when LC was in the audience, singing along not too loudly, and he was asked to stop