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Their 16th album and first in four years!
Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Heart returns with their first release for the Concord Records label, the beautiful and energetic Beautiful Broken. Beautiful Broken finds Hearts Ann and Nancy Wilson exploring new songs, as well as taking some of their favorite cherry picks from their catalog and rerecording and reimagining them.
The album spans a wide range of musical flavors, though all wrapped up in the Wilson sisters unique brand of hard hitting rock, and even draws a few friends of the band into the mix. The title track features a dynamic guest vocal contribution by Metallicas James Hetfield with Ann Wilson, while another of the brand new songs, Two, was penned by hip-hop artist, Ne-Yo.
Ann and Nancy Wilson formed Heart when the idea of two women leading a rock band was still groundbreaking. From the moment 1976s Dreamboat Annie was released, they became stars. With hits like Magic Man, Dreamboat Annie, and Crazy On You, and subsequent albums and hits Barracuda, Alone, What About Love, and These Dreams, the band became one of the biggest hit-makers in the 70s and 80s. In 2012, their memoir Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul and Rock & Roll became a New York Times bestseller, and in 2013 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They have sold more records than any sister act in the history of popular music, 30 million worldwide but theyve done so keeping their vision that women can both rock and put forth emotional intimacy central to their sound.
As I told both Ann and Nancy (and the band), it was a master class in How Its Done. On the one hand, they were providing a shining example of how to aim high right out of the gate with your first album (Dreamboat Annie being the unholy hybrid of Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell, the Stones, CSN&Y, etc that it is) and on another level, they were also giving Ninja lessons on how to maintain 30 years into the gameAt the end, I stood up and applauded as one would after just having witnessed an excellent opera (or a wonder of nature). Because thats exactly how I felt. William Duvall, Alice in Chains
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