From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dear Heather
Dear Heather
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau B[2]
Rolling Stone [3]
Pitchfork Media (8.0/10)[4]
prose.
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Dear Heather studio album released in 2012). 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..[citation needed]
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.
Track listing
All songs were written by Leonard Cohen, except where
noted.
1. "Go No More A-Roving" (words by Lord Byron, poem
Studio album by Leonard Cohen "So, we’ll go no more a roving") – 3:40
2. "Because Of" – 3:00
Released October 26, 2004
3. "The Letters" (Cohen, Sharon Robinson) – 4:44
Recorded July 9, 1985, 2002–04 4. "Undertow" – 4:20
5. "Morning Glory" – 3:28
Genre Rock, folk rock
6. "On That Day" (Cohen, Anjani Thomas) – 2:04
Length 49:27 7. "Villanelle for Our Time" (words by F. R. Scott) – 5:55
Label Columbia 8. "There for You" (Cohen, Robinson) – 4:36
9. "Dear Heather" – 3:41
Producer Leanne Ungar, Sharon Robinson, Anjani 10. "Nightingale" (Cohen, Thomas) – 2:27
Thomas, Henry Lewy, Leonard Cohen
11. "To a Teacher" – 2:32
Leonard Cohen chronology 12. "The Faith" (music based on a Quebec folk song, see
"Un Canadien errant") – 4:17
The Essential Leonard Cohen Dear Heather Live in London 13. "Tennessee Waltz" (Redd Stewart, Pee Wee King,
(2002) (2004) (2009) additional verse by Cohen) – 4:05
Tracks 1, 3 and 8 were produced by Sharon Robinson.
Dear Heather is Leonard Cohen’s eleventh studio album, Tracks 2, 4–5, 7, 9 and 11 were produced by Leanne Un-
released in 2004. gar. Track 6 was produced by Anjani Thomas. Track 10
It shows a further departure from Ten New Songs, with was produced by Anjani Thomas and Ed Sanders. Track
more female lead singing and a marked increase in read 12 was produced by Leanne Ungar and Henry Lewy.
poetry over sung lyrics, two of these being poems by oth- Track 13 was produced by Leonard Cohen in 1985.
er writers.
The album was set to appear under the title Old Ideas,
but Cohen changed the title as he was assured it would
Track notes
mislead people to believe that it was a compilation or • "On That Day" is a song about the September 11,
Best Of (he would, however, use this title for his next 2001 attacks in New York City.
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• "Villanelle for Our Time" was recorded 6 May 1999, Festival. It was taken from the radio recording and
shortly after Cohen’s return from Mount Baldy Zen cleaned up digitally.
Center. It is an improvised jazz recitation of F.R. • The track ’Nightingale’ is dedicated to the late R&B
Scott’s poem. singer Carl Anderson.
• "To a Teacher" is a spoken-word track based on
Cohen’s poem from his 1961 book of poetry The Spice-
Box of Earth, dedicated to the Canadian poet A.M.
References
Klein. [1] Dear Heather at Allmusic
• Music track for "The Faith" is actually an outtake [2] Robert Christgau review
from Recent Songs, with completely new lyrics, [3] Rolling Stone review
re-mixed and with new vocals added (thus the [4] Pitchfork Media review
production was co-credited to Recent Songs producer • discogs.com entry
Henry Lewy).
• The last track is a live performance of "Tennessee
Waltz", recorded 9 July 1985 at the Montreux Jazz
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