Dear Heather 07/11/2006 Manchester (09/14/1994)

Manchester (09/14/1994)

For someone who spent most of his career performing solo on a street corner in Manhattan

country singer Lee Brice on the urgent "Violin"

Antoinette Kinkhead (background vocals)

and far more dangerous because of it

Dear Heather 07/11/2006 Manchester (09/14/1994)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. One might speculate that longtime Buddhist Cohen