{"id":15116,"date":"2013-02-09T22:27:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T06:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=15116"},"modified":"2013-02-09T22:27:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T06:27:32","slug":"watch-amanda-palmer-cover-hallelujah-for-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-02\/watch-amanda-palmer-cover-hallelujah-for-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Amanda Palmer Cover &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221; For A Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now we&#8217;ve all heard a thousand and one covers of <strong>Leonard Cohen&#8217;s<\/strong> <em><strong>Hallelujah<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 <strong>The Man <\/strong>himself<strong>, <\/strong><strong>Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright<\/strong>, <strong>Shrek<\/strong>&#8230;take your pick.\u00a0 The best have done it justice.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s be honest:\u00a0 the song is so perfect, it&#8217;s nearly impossible to screw it up.\u00a0 Leave it then to <strong>Amanda Palmer<\/strong> to serve up one of the most affecting versions we&#8217;ve heard.\u00a0 She prefaces her performance by explaining it was intended to be performed for her friend <strong>Anthony<\/strong> who was undergoing cancer treatment, but then explains that Anthony was unable to attend the performance because of his illness.\u00a0 And then Palmer, herself afflicted with the flu, lays the song out in a gripping performance that hits all the right notes.\u00a0 We know some who have lost loved ones in recent days.\u00a0 May this broken hallelujah provide some comfort and consolation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KT2kTbw70Q4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now we&#8217;ve all heard a thousand and one covers of Leonard Cohen&#8217;s Hallelujah.\u00a0 The Man himself, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Shrek&#8230;take your pick.\u00a0 The best have done it justice.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s be honest:\u00a0 the song is so perfect, it&#8217;s nearly impossible to screw it up.\u00a0 Leave it then to Amanda Palmer to serve up one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}