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The Very Best of Marc Cohn : Greatest Hits | 
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| Artist: Marc Cohn
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 6012
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 77627
UPC: 081227762728
EAN: 0081227762728
ASIN: B000F2C7M2
Release Date: June 20, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Walking In Memphis | | • | True Companion | | • | Silver Thunderbird | | • | Ghost Train | | • | Perfect Love | | • | Dig Down Deep | | • | Walk Through The World | | • | The Rainy Season | | • | Rest For The Weary | | • | Paper Walls | | • | The Things We've Handed Down | | • | Lost You In The Canyon | | • | Saints Preseve Us | | • | Olana | | • | Turn On Your Radio | | • | Fallen Angels | | • | Healing Hands | | • | One Safe Place (Live) |
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Album Description
Born in Cleveland, OH, singer-songwriter Marc Cohn will forever be associated with another great American city by virtue of his signature hit, "Walking In Memphis," one of the stand-out songs of the 1990s. The melodic, literate and dramatic masterpiece spun off his acclaimed self-titled debut album in '91, the same year Cohn won the GRAMMY for Best New Artist. His elegant songwriting artistry shines on two more beautiful and intelligent albums, The Rainy Season and Burning The Daze. Rhino's new collection—the first-ever retrospective of Cohn's work—pulls favorites from his entire repertoire, including "Silver Thunderbird," "True Companion," "Walk Through The World," plus a rare live version of "One Safe Place."
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| Customer Reviews:
 Too soft September 7, 2008
Anne Lagache (Orinda, CA, USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
His music is too slow and soft for me. It's kind of ballads. Maybe it's good to listen to at night when one's trying to wind down.
 New to Cohn . . . and I'm sticking around February 8, 2008
Socially Working "RG" (Craig, AK)
I purchased this only for "Walking in Memphis" which I LOVED, but was sadly the only Marc Cohn song I knew. Turns out I've been missing out. The whole album was just beautiful, calm, and worth listening to over and over again. A worthy purchase I'm so glad I made.
MArc Cohn A Legend January 14, 2008
James (Auckland, New Zealand)
Marc Cohn has written and performed numerous classic songs. They are all on this album. Thoroughly enjoyable.
 Put on my blue suede shoes and I boarded the plane January 10, 2008
Tim Brough (Springfield, PA United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Forever tied to his one masterful hit, Marc Cohn is so much more than "Walking In Memphis." This long deserved best of collects the Grammy winning some of the best of this singer-songwriter's three Atlantic albums Marc Cohn, The Rainy Season and Burning the Daze plus a pair of new tracks. Cohn's style harkens back to the seventies school of sensitive writers; it's no coincidence that James Taylor pops up on "Perfect Love."
Cohn's music also took on a richly darkened hue as his albums progressed. The themes of loneliness and loss explored on "The Rainy Season" and "Burning The Daze" spoke of an artist maturing through his songs, even while his audience was diminishing. "Things We've Handed Down" is an amazing song about the expectations we place on our newborn children. As others have commented, the lovely "One Safe Place" (one of the new songs here) was featured on an episode of "House MD," to capture the meaning of a life passing.
It is, sadly, Marc's brush with death that has brought him back into the public eye. He was shot in the face during a car-jacking incident, landing him both in the headlines and on ABC's 20/20. (Caveat: Cohn is married to ABC correspondent Elizabeth Vargas.) It makes some of these stories of family life and love ("Rest for The Weary," "True Companion" and "Silver Thunderbird") all the more poignant, and his new "Join The Parade" a late season stunner.
If your library includes James Taylor, Van Morrison, Jackson Browne or Bonnie Raitt (who guests here on "Walk Through The World"), "The Very Best of Marc Cohn" will thrill you. His 2007 release, Join the Parade, stands up with his best work, as well.
Marc Cohn August 17, 2007
Louise Blake (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Never having heard of Marc Cohn before, I found him a pleasant surprise. He has a folk and blues combination to his songs that is both mellow and requires the listener's attention.
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