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http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m3NV3IE02HO50Z

Ronnie, over at Heart-music.com has scooped us again. Good job and good find Ronnie.

Take Heart,

Andrea

Ann Wilson chose luminaries to accompany her on the socially conscious rock anthems and thought-provoking folk ballads featured on her first solo album Hope Glory (9/11, Zoë /Rounder).

“I asked them to be on the record not only because I knew how they felt, philosophically, but also because of their singing styles. I felt their voices would help these songs reach a lot of people who might not ordinarily hear them,” Wilson explained in a recent interview with Performing Songwriter (Sep/Oct 2007).

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070826/ENT/708260310/1031/ENT

Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 08/26/07

BY LARRY RODGERS
GANNETT NEWS SERVICE

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When it comes to women in popular music, none have rocked harder or longer than sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, the core of Heart.

Since their monster debut album, 1976’s “Dreamboat Annie,” the sisters have racked up hits (including “Crazy on You,” “Magic Man” and “What About Love?”) and inspired countless female performers to take a shot in a business still dominated by men in some quarters.

After taking a decade-long break in the 1990s, Heart returned in 2004 with “Jupiter’s Darling” and started touring again.

“Hope & Glory,” 57-year-old Ann’s first solo album, will be released on Sept. 11 and features covers of classic songs about war and peace, such as Pink Floyd’s “Goodbye Blue Sky” and Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.”

Guests include Elton John, Rufus Wainwright, k.d. lang and Wynonna.

Ann Wilson, who has long been hailed by fans and critics as one of the most powerful voices in Rock n Roll, delivers one of the most amazing vocal performances of her career on her first solo effort, Hope & Glory.

Little by little, song by song, this album is unfolding online before its actual release date, September 11, 2007, which holds significance for Ann due to the theme of the of the album.

You can hear two of the songs on Ann’s myspace page. Immigrant Song, a Led Zeppelin cover, is a departure from the original. Ann, friend and long time fan of Elton John, teams up with Elton on his and Bernie’s own Where To Now St. Peter. Both songs have been available for a few weeks on Ann’s myspace page. They are in constant rotation on my mp3 player. Both songs were just a glimpse of what is turning out to be one of my favorite albums of all time.

http://www.kdhx.org/index.php?option=com_kdhxradio&task…=268&date=2007-07-27

And Darkness Darkness

This is the one dated August 17th

This is the same show that’s featured War Of Man.

Comments from the playlist guy:

Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall Ann Wilson Hope & Glory Zoe *
Well, knock me over with a feather, but I’ve fallen in love with this soon-to-be-released all covers project from the singer of Heart. Here, she’s joined by Rufus Wainwright and Shawn Colvin for a dramatic re-think of the Dylan song.

We Gotta Get Out of This Place Ann Wilson Hope & Glory Zoe *
Ann and Wynonna absolutely claim this Animals classic for themselves. Stunning!

Take Heart, Enjoy!

Andrea

ISOLATION
For me this brilliant John Lennon song was always a very personal, very human response to being messed with — to being totally kicked around. It’s about what it feels like to be on “the human trampoline,” as Paul Simon would say. Because my own response to being treated that way is always to get very isolated, this song means a lot to me. Recording “Isolation” meant even more because I cut that vocal and that track only a few days after our mother passed away. That’s actually the first take. We didn’t add much of anything. We didn’t have to.
(posted on www.heart-music.com discussion board by MM on August 19, 2007 11:29 AM )

See the whole list here: http://mstralwind.net/AFW/?page_id=42

http://www.xmfan.com/guide.php?q=Ann+Wilson&mode=artist&sort=Channel

 So far Goodbye Blue Sky and Bad Moon Rising are being played and can be requested. Please show your support for Ann by clicking on the link above and requesting both songs. I don’t care if you have XM - do it anyway

Take Heart,

Andrea

http://www.zoerecords.net/index.php?id=album.php&catalog_id=7023

 Thanks to Heart-music.com Heart Monger Slang73 for the find!

DARKNESS DARKNESS
Here’s one of two songs on the album made famous by the Youngbloods –- a band I really loved back in the day. This one was written by the group’s Jesse Colin Young. As Ben said about this song when we were working on it, “That song comes from back when darkness could be your friend. (posted on www.heart-music.com discussion board by MM on August 16, 2007 11:19 AM )

See all of the entries so far at http://mstralwind.net/AFW/?page_id=42

Get Together
Sung by Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Deana Carter & Wynonna:
We realized that doing this Youngbloods smash — written by Dino Valenti — could be inviting scrutiny because it’s sort of the ultimate hippie anthem with its whole peace and love type message. So it could have been a real Spinal Tap moment, but then we decided we love the song so let’s just take a moment and figure out how we can do it for now. And when Nancy started singing on it, it just became this beautiful new thing and we thought that yeah, this works. Why not? It’s still a very beautiful musical statement, and there ought to be room for that even now. (posted on www.heart-music.com discussion board by MM on August 15, 2007 11:20 AM)

“Ann Wilson is my hero. Her voice and stage presence have always been a tremendous inspiration to me. I’m so blessed to have had the opportunity to work with her several times over the last couple of years. She is always amazing, powerful and real. I don’t know what rock & roll would have done without her!”

- Gretchen Wilson
Posted August 14, 2007 10:09 PM on Heart’s message board by Magic Man

“To be asked to be included in such a special project by such an iconic artist is an honor and a privledge. Ann’s voice is absolutely one of the most powerful voices of our time and I’ve been a huge fan since the early days. Her influence in music today is undeniable and this collection of songs is the continuum of how important she is as a link in the influential, musical chain. I’m also proud to consider her my friend.”

We did the great song John Fogerty wrote for Creedence with Gretchen Wilson. Recently Gretchen stood up with Alice In Chains at the VH1 Rock Honors and sang “Barracuda” and was awesome, really awesome. Gretchen wants so much to be a rock singer and I think she’s shown that she can do it all. The song itself is on the fence between rock and country –- its very swamp rock like Creedence could do sometimes. I thought Gretchen brought a lot to the track. She’s very pure and it was great of her to find the time for us. (posted on www.heart-music.com discussion board by MM on August 14, 2007 11:30 AM )

catch all of the entries here http://mstralwind.net/AFW/?page_id=42

I was looking for a song that would relate to the whole idea of just busting out of this negative cycle we’re in these days. It’s my way of saying, “Let’s just get out of this damned repeating cycle.” When I thought about doing a song in those terms, “We Got To Get Out Of This Place” came to mind. In that context, the line “My little girl you’re so young and pretty” was to me a mother speaking to her daughter. Maybe they’re both stuck in some backwater place and the mother is old before her years and the daughter is on her way. Of course, she’s a single mother – the stereotype . . . just like me. Wynonna and I –- our paths have crossed a few times and we just hit it off. We’re two of a kind. I thought of her and Naomi and their history and figured it would be so cool to do this song with her, especially if she starts it out because she has that whole deep Elvis Presley, May West-y thing going on in her voice. (posted on www.heart-music.com discussion board by MM on August 13, 2007 07:42 PM )

See more about the songs on Hope & Glory from Ann at http://mstralwind.net/AFW/?page_id=42

We were thinking about that one and it’s daunting because it’s like six and a half minutes of verse after verse. Ben was like, “Why don’t you take a shot at editing the lyrics.” Like go ahead, Ann Wilson, you try and edit Bob Dylan. I tried three times but it was ridiculous. So we went back to the drawing board to try another way. Ben did an amazing job on the arrangement, and obviously Rufus Wainwright and Shawn Colvin brought their own hearts and soul to it. We had done ‘Decades Live’ with Rufus and I’m a fan and we hit it off. He’s a great talent. And I’ve known Shawn as a fan for years now and our paths would cross and we got to know each others as mothers really first. I thought how cool it would be to have those three very distinct voices on that brilliant Dylan song. (posted on www.heart-music.com discussion board by MM on August 12, 2007 07:03 PM )

See more about the songs on Hope & Glory from Ann at http://mstralwind.net/AFW/?page_id=42

Check out The Heart Linker for a link to War Of Man as part of a streaming radio show.
http://www.heartlinker.eu/

Out of respect for Marjin, I am directing you to his site for the link, instead of providing it to you. He had to do some serious searching to find this one and he deserves the  credit.

 Be warned, do not hit the pause button or you will have to start from the begining. Ann appears at about 1:18 minutes into the stream.  If you listen with Real Player or with a full version of Quick time - let it load for about 30 minutes then you can move forward in the stream.

 Also, this is what Ann has to say about War Of Man:

“A great song from a great writer — Neil Young — and one of my favorites. Our version has extra added angry because it was written about the first Gulf War and here we all go again –- except much worse. The backup vocal on our track is pretty evil –- it’s kind of Stonsey, like a bunch of wolves howling. Of course, right now seems like a pretty good time to howl. Having Alison Krauss join me on the song was fantastic. I was thinking about what voice we could use to be the little girl in the lyrics to that song. I thought of Alison because her voice is so pure and angelic. When we were mixing the track, and Alison sings her part and I come crashing back in like a sledgehammer, Ben goes, ‘Wow, it’s like Bambi and Godzilla.’”

You can see all of Ann’s comments as they are provided here:

http://mstralwind.net/AFW/?page_id=42

Take Heart,

Andrea

From http://www.heart-music.com discussion board:

“Every week, we’ll be leaking information about tracks of each song from the new CD, “Hope and Glory.”

check it out here too: http://mstralwind.net/AFW/?page_id=42

There’s a new entry under Ann Speaks!

From Ann Wilson on the 3rd track of Hope and Glory titled, “Jackson” with KD Lang:

“Some people heard the title and figured that I was doing the June Carter-Johnny Cash duet. It will be a fine surprise when they realize this is actually a great Lucinda Williams song from her Car Wheels On A Gravel Road album. I’m such a fan of Lucinda’s and everything she does. I just think she’s one of the finest writers of this particular time. I especially love how deceptively simple her lyrics are and how blue she can get. Damn, the woman just can get so far down and it’s so beautiful the way she takes us with her.”

 Posted on Heart’s message board on August 07, 2007 11:46 AM

http://mstralwind.net/AFW/?page_id=42