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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 […]

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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, […]

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Ann Speaks: Isolation

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 […]

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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 […]

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Ann Speaks: Get Together

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 […]

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“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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Ann Speaks updated

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

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I’ve said it many times before, but I’ll say it again, I’m amazed that Ann still can amaze me after all I know she is cabable of. But she’s done it again. But Ann is always better live. She feeds off the crowd and the crowd responds in turn with love and appreciation in a […]

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