Dear Heather

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Dear Heather
Studio album by Leonard Cohen
Released	October 26, 2004
Recorded	July 9 1985, 2002–04
Genre	Folk
Length	49:27
Label	Columbia
Producer	Leanne Ungar, Sharon Robinson, Anjani Thomas, Henry Lewy, Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen chronology
The Essential Leonard Cohen (2002) Dear Heather (2004)

Dear Heather is Leonard Cohen's eleventh studio album, released in 2004.

It shows a further departure from that of Ten New Songs, with more female lead singing and a marked increase in read poetry over sung lyrics, two of these being poems by other writers.

The album was set to appear under the title Old Ideas, but Cohen changed the title as he was assured it would mislead people to believe that it was a compilation or Best Of. Again, Cohen recorded it digitally in his and Sharon Robinson's home studios in Los Angeles, as he did with his previous album, Ten New Songs.

The album reached #131 on the Billboard 200 and Internet Album charts and #5 on the Canadian Album charts. It was Cohen's highest charting album in America since 1969's Songs from a Room

[edit] Track listing

All songs were written by Leonard Cohen, except where noted.

1. "Go No More A-Roving" (words by Lord Byron, poem "So, we'll go no more a roving") – 3:40
2. "Because Of" – 3:00
3. "The Letters" (Cohen, Sharon Robinson) – 4:44
4. "Undertow" – 4:20
5. "Morning Glory" – 3:28
6. "On That Day" (Cohen, Anjani Thomas) – 2:04
7. "Villanelle for Our Time" (words by F. R. Scott) – 5:55
8. "There for You" (Cohen, Robinson) – 4:36
9. "Dear Heather" – 3:41
10. "Nightingale" (Cohen, Thomas) – 2:27
11. "To a Teacher" – 2:32
12. "The Faith" (music based on a Quebec folk song, see "Un Canadien errant") – 4:17
13. "Tennessee Waltz" (Redd Steward, Pee Wee King, additional verse by Cohen) – 4:05

Tracks 1, 3 and 8 were produced by Sharon Robinson. Tracks 2, 4–5, 7, 9 and 11 were produced by Leanne Ungar. Track 6 was produced by Anjani Thomas. Track 10 was produced by Anjani Thomas and Ed Sanders. Track 12 was produced by Leanne Ungar and Henry Lewy. Track 13 was produced by Leonard Cohen in 1985.

[edit] Track notes

• "On That Day" is a song about the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City.
• "Villanelle for Our Time" was recorded 6 May 1999, shortly after his return from Mount Baldy Zen Center.
• "The Faith" is an outtake from Recent Songs, re-mixed and with new vocals added (thus the production was co-credited to Henry Lewy and Leanne Ungar).
• The last track is a live performance of "Tennessee Waltz", recorded 9 July 1985 at the Montreux Jazz Festival. It was taken from the radio recording and cleaned up digitally.
• The track 'Nightingale' is dedicated to the late R&B singer Carl Anderson.

[edit] References

• discogs.com entry

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