LEONARD COHEN

Lovely early set (1968!) posted by Big O on Lennie's birthday t'other day and only just got round to listening to it as I figured it is so old it wouldn't have much that was worth comment - well as often is the case, I am wrong - it is great! Crisp clear and cleaned up (sic) recording, terrific set and fine accompaniment too! Billed as Live at the BBC it is broadcast quality that has been tidied from the Paris Theatre London where so many Beeb broadcast of the era were staged
I will try n find out who is backing him here but it is really worth downloading while you can (remembering you have a few weeks before Big O remove the live links although you can always ask them to re-post and they are really friendly!)

Leonard Cohen - London 68

It would appear this was a John Peel concert recording for his 'Top Gear' show but Peels own archive only mentions 5 backing musicians and 3 back up singers which is frustrating

UPDATE: the wonderful weblog Cohencentric posted that he thought it had been mentioned somewhere that "Dave Cousins and The Strawbs ... as the backing band at this BBC session." and that Julie Felix sang backing with him on 'Hey That's No Way to Say Good-bye'