What happens next is a new studio album, with recording to begin immediately after the tour ends in late September.
“Nancy’s tour bus is actually kind of ‘demo central’ right now,” Ann said. The new songs are written by the Wilsons and current Heart guitarist Craig Bartock. It’s set for early 2009 release.
Click here for the entire interview (done last week in Denver) on NEWS OK
Press release
“Barracuda” Leaps Upward in Sales as Heart Mongers Fan Club Membership Doubles
Jupiter’s Darling Reissue, Ann Wilson “Isolation” Single, Next Album Sessions Also Mark 2008
(Los Angeles) Heart’s legendary stature and ongoing creative vitality and appeal are coalescing to make 2008 a banner year in the rock band’s already landmark 32-year run. Following the appearance by the group’s Ann & Nancy Wilson with fan and friend Fergie performing their hit song “Barracuda” on the “Idol Gives Back” charity special, the clip of that special collaboration was the #2 video download at iTunes. Digital sales of the original 1977 Top 10 hit version of the song surged 85% in the wake of the TV event while digital album sales for Hearts Greatest Hits leapt 250% and Greatest Hits/Live enjoyed a 110% jump.
At the same time, membership in the Heart Mongers Fan Club has doubled as followers of the group sign up to receive such benefits as exclusive presale tickets on dates (where available) during their three-month, 40-plus date nationwide summer tour with fellow rockers Journey and Cheap Trick. Heart’s most recent studio album, Jupiter’s Darling — hailed as “easily the band’s finest moment in over 20 years” by All Music Guide when it hit the streets in 2004 — will be reissued on June 3 via Adrenaline Music Group (distributed by ADA) and Zoe/Rounder Records has just released a single of Ann Wilson’s stirring take on John Lennon’s “Isolation” from last fall’s Hope & Glory, her first solo album. The Wilson sisters will also hit the studio in 2008 to cut their next album of new material.
With the Wilson sisters at the core of a band that is as vital, creative and active as ever, Heart enjoy a multigenerational appeal, keeping longtime listeners engaged while winning new and younger fans thanks to the popularity of their songs among “American Idol” contestants like this season’s Top 6 finalist Carly Smithson. The group’s groundbreaking meld of hard rock, folk finesse and pop appeal, topped with Ann Wilson’s still potent trademark voice, has earned Heart album sales of 30 million alongside a string of enduring hit songs over the last three plus decades.
Heart continue setting firsts as the debut artists on DirecTV’s “Legendary Albums Live” series, performing their classic 1976 breakthrough debut album Dreamboat Annie in concert taped a year ago in Los Angeles and released on CD and DVD by Shout! Factory last October. Their eminence as rock legends was affirmed last year when they appeared on the “VH1 Rock Honors” TV special and were awarded lifetime achievement rings for their musical contributions.
A great track from Ann Wilson´s solo album has been released as a single to the radio. It is the John Lennon cover: `Isolation´. So request it on your favorite radiostation!
Today my newest Ebay purchase arrived. This time from Japan. It is the Japanese pressing of Ann Wilson´s solo album `Hope & glory´. This version has a bonus track ´American Tune´, which is also an album exclusive in the US iTunes store. So all you collectors out there… get it!
Today´s the Ellen DeGeneres show will be a big party! She´s 50! She´s gonna try and do Barracuda on Guitar Hero III :) Don´t miss that!
SHE´S GIVING AWAY HEART STUFF!!! CLICK HERE TODAY (FRIDAY 25th)!
OMG! Heart was there!
thanx Enchantgy for posting this!
Perfect Stranger from the Heart BBS made a transcript of a recent interview that was broadcasted on Majic 100 in Ottawa, Canada. Thanx so much for doing this! I´ve taken the liberty to post it here too! :) Oh Ann? Please perform “Nobody Home”! Really! We all love it!
Here it goes:
She started off by talking about how exciting and educational it was for her to work with Ben Mink. She described doing a full solo cd as both hard and wonderful.
In order to pick the songs she got a wish list going first. It was harder to pick the songs than the people to sing with because the songs have a voice and tell you what they need – if you’re tuned in to that it was easy to pick the singers.
She said that ‘Get Together’ invites scrutiny because it’s such a hippie anthem and such a positive song… positive, bright and wonderful. She hesitated to do it, then said “no, why hesitate because something is positive, just go for it, the world could use it”. The theme of the cd was songs to make people think that there’s another way of thinking besides being swept up in a river of negativity and violence.
She talked about playing together with Gretchen Wilson a number of times and how Gretchen does a great job on ‘Barracuda’ and does it a lot of justice.
When asked why it took so long to do a solo cd, she said that her career plate has always been sort of full with Heart, but it got to the point where she said she got really bothered with being mute about what’s going on in the world. It started to bother her on a deep level, so she wondered what she could do and the answer was… do what she does best and that’s sing. So she found songs by herself and other people who have really been bothered by the problem of what’s going on in the world at different times in history. What she can do is speak out… it gives people something to help to take along to help orchestrate their thought.
When Codi said that she always thought that Ann should write a book, Ann stated that the thing that’s kept her from it is that there’s no ending… and that’s not a good ending. There’s a beginning and a middle, but there’s no end yet, and she wouldn’t know how to complete the book.
When talking about her voice and her vocal range and depth, Ann said that songs like ‘Barracuda’ are not that challenging; it’s songs like ‘Crazy On You’ that are more challenging. Over the years they haven’t really changed the key, they still do the songs in the original keys they were written in when she was 23 or 24 and that’s what’s challenging – to keep herself in good form and good health so she can do the same stuff she did when she was that age.
Talking about how Ann’s voice can be such a powerhouse and then she can bring it right down she says that’s important because if you just do the big, loud, over the top belting, that’s one thing, or you can do the really intimate stuff. She thinks that the test of a really good singer is to be able to be really intimate and that it comes across in that way too.
She was asked if there’s anything out of all the stuff she’s ever done that she never gets tired of, or if she has a favourite, or one that’s more personal to her. She said “Yeah, but it’s probably not gonna be one that’s very well known. I like the song ‘Lighter Touch’ and I like the song ‘Nobody Home’.”
Since Codi does an eighties retro show, she told Ann that she always asks everybody she interviews what their biggest 80’s memory is. Ann just said “Hmmm…okay… I gotta be honest with you. The 80’s was not my most memorable time. I can remember a lot of things about it because it was one of the most image conscious times that I’ve known in my career… with all the rock videos, the big hair and all that kinda stuff… and all the corsets and the false fingernails, and all the stilleto heels and all that kinda stuff. All the make-up and all that kinda stuff – very, very inauthentic – kind of like playing dressup. It was a fun time, we drank a lot of champagne, we had #1 albums and singles and it was kind of a dream… a dream time. It’s really amazing how when you have a #1 album or single, all of a sudden you’re smarter, you’re more beautiful… like… people take you more seriously. When you attain that, people just really change around you. And also, I look back on, and Nancy does too, as being we almost can’t believe our fortune to have been there at that time, it was pretty amazing.”
Scoopmonger Ronnie from the Heartmonger Blog made this excellent discovery!
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