It is a little hard to review something you never received. I also PAID for this item and emailed the seller with no avail!!!!! VERY DISATISFIED!!!!!

When I first bought this CD, I played it to death - over and over. I just loved it. I was cleaning up my CD collection by ripping them into mp3s, and guess what? I listened to the mp3s off this CD, and I flipped over this CD all over again. Here it is, a decade and a half later and it's still one of the best CDs I own. I'm enjoying it all over again. Cohn's music is ageless.

"Walking in Memphis" and "Perfect Love" are truly brilliant.

By all means, pick up this CD - it should be in everyone's collection!

Marc Cohn's self-titled cd is wonderful. His voice is rich and varied, and his lyrics, whether sad or fun, are moving.

This gem has been floating in my collection for 15 years, and every time I pull it out, it sounds as fresh as the day I got it.
I never tire of the imagery, the honesty and warmth that breathes from this remarkable debut.
Makes me want to pack up & move south.....

The music industry was in sorry shape in 1991. The image of the Grammy's had just taken a serious credibility blow when the Grammy Winner for Best New Artist 1990, the infamous Milli Vanilli, were shown to be a hoax fronted by lip-synching models that couldn't sing. There was no-way anyone was going to have an embarrassment like 1990 happen again. The industry needed a savior...an artist that could write, sing and play his instruments. Marc Cohn was that man.

Awarded the Best New Artist Grammy in 1991 on the strength of "Walking In Memphis," Marc's debut album actually deserved the praise. After years of being force fed studio concoctions that were so faceless that the real singers were suing when the tours went out with models 'singing' leads, Marc harkened back to the age of 70's singer songwriters. James Taylor even pops in for a duet on "Perfect Love," ever symbolic of a passing of the torch.

It was Cohn's gruff but sensitive vocals that made many of these songs memorable. His gritty blues delivery of "29 Ways" (kind of an inverted answer to "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover") were soulful and rough, recalling Ray Charles. But the tenderness of the terrific "True Companion" brought home his sensitive side. The real hook, though, was "Walking In Memphis." With a tinkling piano opener and a gospel build-up, it was Cohn's calling card to the land of Elvis and southern soul.

There isn't a duff song here, which is also a rarity in this genre. "Memphis," "Silver Thunderbird," "29 Ways" and "True Companion" all received airplay during the album's chart life and "Walking In Memphis" has become something of a standard. (Even Cher has a version of it, and it was her recording that was used in an episode of "The X-Files.") Marc's sophisticated and classic sounding debut remains a shining example of what is good about singer-songwriters when they're at the top of their games.