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	Leonard Cohen: Dear Heather: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Dear Heather is the 70-year-old singer's 11th studio recording, and it suits his age.
		And the title track finds Cohen intoning one short verse ("Dear Heather, please walk by me again/ With a drink in your hand/ And your legs all white from the winter"), sometimes speaking the words and sometimes spelling parts of them-- all over a trilling circus organ, trumpets, and breathy harmonies.
		Dear Heather is gorgeous, quietly poignant rendering of autumnality.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/cohen_leonard/dear-heather.shtml (945 words)

	Leonard Cohen: Dear Heather (2004): Reviews
		Dear Heather is Cohen's highest tide yet, his most exquisite marriage of song and poetry and ambiguous grace.
		During Dear Heather, it becomes hard to escape the sensation that Cohen is expending all his energy on the words and losing interest in music.
		Pretty much nothing from Dear Heather is without some kind of significant flaw, and the only thing saving it from being below average---at least in a general sense, and not kept strictly to his own discography----are the few moments that Cohen is kept solitary with as little outside interference as possible.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/cohenleonard/dearheather (502 words)

	Cokemachineglow.com - Leonard Cohen: Dear Heather
		Not surprisingly, most all singing on his newest (and reportedly last) record, Dear Heather, is taken on by more than capable singers (familiar ones at that; collaborators Sharon Robinson and Anjani Thomas both return for the record), but placed next to Cohen's seventy-year-old timbre, they sound absolutely devoid of personality and edge.
		In fact, pretty much nothing from Dear Heather is without some kind of significant flaw, and the only thing saving it from being below average---at least in a general sense, and not kept strictly to his own discography----are the few moments that Cohen is kept solitary with as little outside interference as possible.
		Heather reminds me why I fell in love with Cohen's work to begin with, but that sort of powerful nostalgia doesn't excuse catalogue-padding from one of the nation's greatest songwriters---and it certainly doesn't explain another ill-informed move from one of our wisest.
	www.cokemachineglow.com /reviews/cohen_heather2004.html (1174 words)

	Guardian \| Leonard Cohen, Dear Heather
		Ravaged by cigarettes, his voice has almost vanished into a husking whisper: the contrast between Dear Heather's closing track, a cover of Tennessee Waltz recorded live in 1985, and the rest of the album is startling.
		During Dear Heather, it becomes hard to escape the sensation that Cohen is expending all his energy on the words and losing interest in music, not least on Villanelle For Our Time and to a Teacher, which sound less like songs than poetry recitals set to vague jazz backings.
		Much of Dear Heather seems retrospective: there are dedications to deceased poets whom Cohen knew in the Montreal of the late 50s and The Faith is adapted from an old Québecois folk song.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5044245-110430,00.html (666 words)

	All you had to do was ask.
		I have to confess that when someone says a sweatshirt is heathered, this is the first image to pop into my head.
		Hey heather- I was laughing, when my sister commented that my nostrils were flaring quite a bit, and I was just wondering if this would increase my nostril size.
		Heather, I was watching a Geiko commercial during the Olympics and they were playing a song in the background...
	www.vintagevantage.com /askheather.html (5580 words)

	Dear Heather Music at Shop Ireland
		Dear Heather might well be the last proper Leonard Cohen studio album.
		Dear Heather joins Ten New Songs as a beacon for everyday mystics trying to make sense of the world.
		'Dear Heather' has one or two tracks that would fit easily on that album but generally is far more varied, intriguing, and ultimately more interesting.
	www.shopireland.ie /music/reviews/B0002XK4FG (1379 words)

	Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather - Columbia Records - CD
		"Dear Heather" is a light flight-of-fancy; simple appreciation of Heather, consisting of four lines repeated, ever-so-slightly haltingly, by Cohen and ever-present muse/partner Anjani Thomas...a slight south seas steel drum-like underpinning.
		"Dear Heather" is as much a masterpiece as Leonard Cohen has ever released, but in its own way.
		Give this one just a little time, dear reader, and the riches it unveils are many, and absolutely, enthrallingly beautiful: lyrically, vocally, and musically.
	www.musictap.net /Reviews/CohenLeonardDearHeatherCD.html (769 words)

	Dear Heather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		This is more evident as time goes on, and a heavy nicotine habit takes its toll on his voice, but the lyrics on 'Dear Heather' are of the standard we have come to expect.
		The pace is funereal, and there is one bona fide turkey ('Dear Heather', the title track, is embarrasingly bad), but as an intimate, chamber piece, it is a minor masterpiece.
		Though Dear Heather is not as immediately dramatic as The Future or 10 New Songs the power & wonder of the master's touch are not diminished.
	www.low-cost-electronics.com /item/Dear-Heather-B0002MPTDO.html (570 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Dear Heather - Leonard Cohen at Epinions.com
		And in fact, Dear Heather may very well be the most whimsical record Cohen’s made in decades.
		The title track is a single stanza that he (and his girls) recite in a strange cadence evocative of someone reading out loud what they’re writing down on paper… an effect heightened when he actually starts spelling out some of the words later on in the song.
		Dear Heather may very well be the sexiest thing we hear all year.
	www.epinions.com /content_159693573764 (808 words)

	Dear Heather Music CD is available from Bestprices.com
		While there are some familiar elements present, much of DEAR HEATHER is a stark contrast to virtually all of Leonard Cohen's previous recorded work.
		Where the Canadian troubadour's previous albums all sounded like carefully constructed towers of song, built piece by painstaking piece (and Cohen has confirmed this as his working process), DEAR HEATHER seems to be an entirely more spontaneous offering.
		Beguiling." Uncut (p.114) - 5 stars out of 5 - "DEAR HEATHER is Cohen's highest tide yet, his most exquisite marriage of song and poetry and ambiguous grace.
	bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/827969289129BT?source=yahooshopping (313 words)

	Old Ideas: Dear Heather
		»Heather« (already abstracted from the Cohens' real maid at least as early as The Favourite Game) is the original female body (»the ribbed original of Love« — Dylan Thomas), naked from head to toes (or from face to legs?).
		In »Dear Heather« the legs are »white from the winter«: another layer has been taken off.
		But, as in the novel one woman was just another aspect of »Woman«, »Heather« is beyond being a specific woman, she's »the woman«...
	www.leonardcohencroatia.com /old-ideas-dear-heather.php (1182 words)

	Leonard Cohen: Dear Heather - PopMatters Music Review
		After 36 years of songwriting (including eleven studio albums), and despite taking his own sweet time between albums, Cohen continues to write and record with a startling consistency, and Dear Heather, his most complex and adventurous record to date, is no exception.
		He addresses old friends and mentors, he reminisces about the ladies in his life, he muses about the effects of 9/11, and musically, he strips down the arrangements to their most basic forms, as you hear touches of traditional folk (he even plays a Jew's harp at one point), jazz, and his trademark balladry.
		Completely fascinating from beginning to end, Dear Heather rivals Cohen's classics from over a decade ago, 1998's I'm Your Man and 1992's The Future, and despite the wide variety of musical styles on the record, there's a remarkable consistency to his compositions.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/cohenleonard-dear.shtml (636 words)

	Dear Heather - Leonard Cohen
		Dear Heather is a quiet and engrossing album that proves age doesn't necessarily dictate artistic degradation.
		Dear Heather is a varied collection of songs: "On that Day" is Cohen’s poetic and understated mediation upon 9/11, "Go No More A-Roving,” a slow, sultry interpretation of the Lord Byron poem, and the title track an experiment with chant, delivered in a staccato, almost robotic performance by Cohen along with his back-up singers.
		Dear Heather is a languid affair, taking in smoky jazz, dusty country and creamy soul, and sometimes Cohen seems barely awake, absent-mindedly talking along with the gospel backing singers as though it's somebody else's record, but as a lyricist he's no slouch.
	www.webheights.net /dearheather/news.html (15549 words)

	Dear Heather Music
		Listen to the sexy self-deprecation of 'Because of' ('Because of a few songs/ Wherein I spoke of their mystery/ Women have been/ Exceptionally kind in my old age') or the weary resolve of his 9-11 statement, 'On That Day' ('Did you go crazy or did you report/ On that day…they wounded New York?').
		Dear Heather, likes its creator, is at once new and old, familiar and fresh.
		Though Dear Heather is not as immediately dramatic as The Future or 10 New Songs the power and wonder of the master's touch are not diminished.
	www.supermantv.net /ItemId/B0002MPTDO (546 words)

	dear heather International Resources Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
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		Heather Angel - Colorado Mines - HIGH/LOW ANALYSIS - as of 03/02/03...
	find247-here.com /sites/heather/dear_heather.html (567 words)

	samtherecordman.com - Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		There is an air of finality on Leonard Cohen's Dear Heather.
		That said, Dear Heather is Cohen's most upbeat offering.
		Rather than focus on loss as an end, it looks upon experience as something to be accepted as a portal to wisdom and gratitude.
	www.samscd.com /catalog/product.xml?product_id=345667 (350 words)

	icWales - Leonard Cohen, 'Dear Heather' (Columbia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Cohen's voice has lowered even more since then to the deep base tone we know and love but it is often an oppressive weight to bear and sometimes it is not until listeners hear his songs transformed by others that they begin to appreciate the poetic and melodic beauty that lurks within his songs.
		Dear Heather comes relatively swiftly by Cohen’s standards and follows 2001's Ten New Songs.
		It's as profound and dark as you might expect yet well balanced, given air and light by the sweet voice of his conspirator and co-producer Sharon Robinson.
	icwales.icnetwork.co.uk /0900entertainment/1600cds/tm_objectid=14842511&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=leonard-cohen---dear-heather---columbia--name_page.html (261 words)

	PBSTL Review -Dear Heather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		In flipping through the liner notes of Dear Heather, one snapshot in particular made me pause and stare: an elderly gentleman sporting a dark suit and fedora sits with one hand resting
		A total of five verses including its title, the song “Dear Heather” sounds like a computer-generated greeting card as sung by Cohen and Thomas in unison.
		For over three minutes, they implore and repeat: “Dear Heather/Please walk with me again/With a drink in your hand/And your legs all white/From the winter.” And as simple as it sounds, the depth of this number is in its repetition; like a broken record or someone’s twisted obsession.
	www.playbackstl.com /Current/PBP/dearheather.htm (614 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Dear Heather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Aged 70, Cohen has rolled out Dear Heather, which stands, alongside Ten New Songs and I'm Your Man as proof positive that there is life after youth for this part-time monk.
		But even on his early albums, Cohen sounded positively ancient, wise beyond his years- you get the feeling that he's at the age he was born to be, and Dear Heather feels like the album he's been waiting to make.
		The follow-up to Ten New Songs, legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen releases Dear Heather, twelve new songs plus a live rendition of the old country standard "Tennessee Waltz".
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002XK4FG (1367 words)

	Leonard Cohen "Dear Heather" - Western Courier - The Edge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Music lovers who have had their fill of Tom Waits's "Real Gone" and still crave moody sounds from a highly esteemed non-singer might want to get their hands on "Dear Heather," the new album by longtime cult favorite Leonard Cohen.
		Cohen's latest disc is an uneven collection of tracks that succeed only as much as the artist and his backup singers allow them to by means of their vocals.
		But "Dear Heather" proves that voices like Cohen's can't carry every tune, even on a purely emotional level.
	www.westerncourier.com /news/2004/11/05/TheEdge/Leonard.Cohen.dear.Heather-795155.shtml (337 words)

	Dear Heather - New York Magazine Pop Music Review
		Dear Heather is bad in some pretty interesting ways.
		Dear Heather is rambling—rambling not like a young boy in a field but like a street person trying to explain his philosophy to you.
		Dear Heather is a mournful record, shadowy with lost loves and dead friends and old letters, memories that torture as they entice.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/music/pop/reviews/10265 (1108 words)

	>☞ Dear Heather (W/1 Live Track) Dear Heather (W/1 Live Track) in » Musique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Perhaps not a great worldly career move, but at 70 maybe he isn't worried about that as much anymore.
		The simple, lyrical beauty of "Dear Heather" is so reminiscent of "For Anne" from _The Spice Box of Earth_ that it seems unlikely to be a coincidence.
		For the past year, John Stewart, a research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, has been leading a development team in building a computer-vision system that identifies plastic and other unwanted elements in finished food products.
	jeux-video.cadeauxcanada.com /dear-heather,B0002MPTDO_i.htm (626 words)

	Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather - Album reviews - Music - Virgin.net
		Time has not weakened his artistic resolve, but it is clear that on Dear Heather - his first album for three years - Cohen's voice is more gravel-laden than ever.
		One could be forgiven for thinking that the song in his voice had all but given up the ghost and decided to settle for a quiet life in a Toronto suburb retirement complex.
		As Cohen himself has admitted, he has been greatly helped over the years by sterling backing vocal performances, and Dear Heather is no exception, with contributions throughout from long-time associates Sharon Robinson and Anjani Thomas.
	www.virgin.net /music/albumreviews/leonardcohen_dearheather.html (243 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather
		Three years on, and although his words can still create a mesmerising bubble, this time the wrinkles are plain to see.
		'Dear Heather' is a mixture of singing and spoken word, and on it Cohen's gravelly rasp is the aural equivalent of a flickering, dying candle.
		He has said it all before, and he's said it better than this.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2004/1125/cohenl.html (301 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Dear Heather - This Is Leonard
		His most recent album, "Dear Heather", is no exception.
		'Dear Heather': The title song is the most sparse verbally, yet quite emotive.
		While he once called me “the Hawaiian sun at its soft edges,” Carl was the sun's blazing, impassioned core." Leonard captures the essence of the nightingale's song in this piece, with layered beauty, utilizing a couple of unusual instruments in the process.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/01/17/192021.php (1537 words)

	Ahadada Books: Leonard Cohen's Dear Heather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Bernard Perusse of the Montreal Gazette writes of the arrangements on Dear Heather : "Could someone please introduce Leonard to some actual musicians so he can ditch the Tinker-toy, Casio sound?" Perusse's smugness belies the fact that, while Cohen's trademark synth sound resurfaces on this album, the arrangements are full, complex, and improvisational.
		What I like about Leonard Cohen's arrangements here is that, while the drums and bass play in regular time, the keyboard solos often spill over the beat, resulting in a breathless, jazzy sound.
		Parts of Dear Heather resonate in time with current events.
	www.sendecki.com /ahadada/archives/2004/11/06/leonard_cohens_dear_heather.php (686 words)

	Review - Leonard Cohen: Dear Heather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Sure there have been some melodic ballads of note but generally the simpler the better.
		Dear Heather has both sides of the coin, some sappy lush stuff, and some inspired poems with a beat.
		Take the title track for instance, which is basically a curt haiku with a bit of piano tinkling.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-december04/reviews/review_leonard_cohen.html (171 words)

	COHEN CHORDS... Dear Heather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Dear Heather Please walk by me again With a G7...G7...G7...G7...
		legs all white from the winter And your legs all white from the winter Dear F...F...F...F...
		Heather Please walk by me again With a C...C...C...C...
	cohenchords.sphosting.com /tabs/dear_heather.html (152 words)

	Dear Heather: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		That, Heather, and your comments on the 17th of December, and the messages people left for you on your comment board.
		It's not just because you inspired it, not just because it was originally going to be an email before it outgrew that.
		I want to keep porn intact, but I want a generation that is not utterly clueless.
	www.eccentricflower.com /pihua/200212/entry7.htm (1397 words)

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