An up-and-coming folk-rock singer-songwriter who crafts brooding, timeless, sophisticated pop songs, Elvis Perkins has earned lofty comparisons to the likes of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.

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For instance not so much recording Dylan - and I recorded Randy Newman, one of the first people who did record his songs, and I found and recorded many, many of - well, Leonard Cohen came to me to find out whether I thought he was a songwriter, which I thought was peculiar for a monk not to know.

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They are, however, the popular music of today songs from My Morning Jacket, Deerhoof, even Leonard Cohen.

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