From the Vault 339: 2012 Season Review, Part 7

This week on From the Vault continue to feature selections our favorite episodes of the past year:

Leonard Cohen, 1974

Master of poetry, art, and spirituality, Leonard Cohen is interviewed by WBAI’s Kathleen Kendel on December 4th, 1974 while touring his fourth studio record “New Skin for the Old Ceremony.”.

Jimmy Cliff

Twenty seven year old Jimmy Cliff, one of the pioneering forces of reggae music, is interviewed in 1975 at WBAI studios in New York City about the 1972 release of the Jamaican cult crime flick The Harder They Come.

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