Remastered by Bernie Grundman
Exclusive 33-RPM vinyl issued for the first time in more than 30 years
In 1987 Jennifer Warnes and Roscoe Beck created an enduring interpretation of some of Leonard Cohen’s finest mid-period songs. The resulting album Famous Blue Raincoat has remained a touchstone of American pop. It’s a recording as beautiful as the songs incisive, painstakingly created by some of the finest musicians and engineers ever assembled. It has rightfully remained immensely popular for afficianados of sound and songcraft.
Impex Records has enjoyed a long and rich collaboration with Jennifer Warnes. Now Impex is proud to release, for the first time in more than 30 years, a fully authorized and approved 33 RPM, 180-gram vinyl LP of her groundbreaking classic.
Newly remastered by Bernie Grundman on his all-tube cutting system using Warnes` personal analog mix-down tapes (from original digital recording tape), and personally supervised by Ms. Warnes, Famous Blue Raincoat is ready to be discovered by a new generation of vinyl enthusiasts seeking the purest musical alchemy, and vocal interpretation. Come see how far we’ll go for beauty.

八十年代最具代表性的女聲演唱經典之作
世紀發燒天籟名盤全球唯一180G黑膠版終極黃金版
美國音響權威雜誌TAS發燒天書評為最佳錄音盤
八十年代集詩人、小說家、詞曲作者、歌手等多重身分的現代藝術家Leonard Cohen說：「珍妮佛華恩絲的歌聲就像「加州陽光」一樣，她善於去體會一首歌曲的神髓，然後用聲音表達出來，讓聽者感染到歌曲中豐沛的生命力，因此她可說是一名最佳的「聲音表演者」。一九七九年她為電影《諾瑪蕾》(Norma Rae)演唱一首“It goes like it goes"，為她贏得奧斯卡最佳電影歌曲獎，而在樂壇大放異彩，八二年她和Joe Cocker再為電影《軍官與紳士》合唱“Up Where We Belong"，一九八七年和Bill Medley為《熱舞十七》合唱“(I’ve had) the Time of My life"，不但分別拿下了流行榜上冠軍曲，更再度拿下奧斯卡最佳歌曲獎即葛萊美獎的最佳二重唱獎，華恩絲旋即成了紅遍全球的女歌手。
這張一九八七年錄製的專集「著名的藍雨衣」是一張向Cohen致敬的作品，動用了大編製的樂隊，把歌曲中含蓄的情緒用曲是烘托出來，使其蘊涵了豐富的文學性及音樂性。九首歌曲，曲曲都是佳作，特別一提的是“First we take Manhattan"中有德州藍調吉他大師Stevie Ray Vaughan流暢的吉他演奏，全曲更顯奔放淋漓；Cohen和華恩絲合唱的“Joan of Arc"是首壯闊的搖滾史詩，在編曲及合聲的運用上氣勢磅礡，震撼人心。此外，為了提高專輯質感，本輯的錄音、混音工程都力