#195 Leonard Cohen, 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' (1967)

Leonard Cohen was an acclaimed poet and novelist in the mid-‘60s, but he was keen to set his writing to music. Cohen had played in a Country band when he was a teen. He had huge plans to go to Nashville to become a Country singer, but instead, found himself entrenched in the New York Folk scene. Thanks to his song, ‘Suzanne,’ Cohen came to the attention of John Hammond, a man that’s appeared a few times in this list as the man that originally signed and championed artists such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Billie Holiday.