Barb Jungr - Hard Rain (The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen) (2014)

2014 album from the UK's finest interpreter of song. On HARD RAIN, Barb Jungr covers the songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. Oft referred to as 'the politicized chansonnier' and cited as one of the world's best performers of Dylan's material, Barb turns to six of his most politically hard-hitting songs along with five of Leonard Cohen's most impassioned songs of conscience. Barb's selection for HARD RAIN reflects her despair with the political times that we live in and she has deliberately chosen songs that resonate as strongly today as they did when they were originally written. All of the arrangements on the album are by Barb and her long-standing collaborator and accompanist, the pianist Simon Wallace, who also produced the album. Together with Barb and her band, they inject new life and energy into each song.