Artist: LEONARD COHEN
Album: DEAR HEATHER (CD)

Release date: 2004
Media type: CD

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

It shows a further departure from 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.[citation needed] 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.

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

TRACKLIST:

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 Stewart, Pee Wee King, additional verse by Cohen) – 4:05