I just remember a classmate of mine at Queens who got so blue,homesick etc he dropped out after 4 weeks......a big Neil D fan....
I believe this was no coincidence...
I tried to lend him some James Cotton etc etc...but it  was too late.
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I am ambivalent about a mural of Cohen 
(imho) he was a depressing sod as well....possibly even one of our legendary Canadian intellectual phonies....the ladies loved him back in the day; 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv4J7sID3Pk