Dear Heather  by Leonard Cohen

In 2004, Leonard Cohen offers his music fans his eleventh studio album titled Dear Heathen. Here, Cohen dives into his past, finds things he had written then, and presents them in the year 2004. Of course, there are also contemporary compositions.

Thus, the song The Faith was written in 1979, while Tennessee Waltz is their own adaptation of an old country song. The performance we hear on Dear Heathen is a live version from the promotional tour of Various Positions. The album opens with Go No More a-Roving, a song that incorporates lyrics from Lord Byron's poem "So, we'll go no more a roving". The American Sharon Robinson helps with her voice in many songs. Musically, the album includes several music styles, such as jazz, soul, gospel, and others.

Dear Heathen reached No. 5 in Canada, while in many European countries it managed to achieve significant sales for Leonard Cohen's standards.