Having just turned 80, the singer/songwriter and poet has released his 13th album, a collection of songs that proves his right to sing his exalted version of the blues.
“Excuse me for not dying.” Those words were said by Joshu Sasaki Roshi, who ordained Leonard Cohen as a Zen monk in 1996. Roshi, who recently passed on at 107, was in his late 90s when he said it.
