Year: September 11, 2007 (CD 2007)
Label: Zoe Records (Canada), 0114310852
Style: Soft Rock, RockCountry: Seattle, Washington, U.S. (June 19, 1950)
Time: 48:20
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 318 Mb
Интересный альбом. Полностью состоящий из кавер версий. Причём каких музыкантов! Не каждый рискнёт сделать кавер на Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Animals, John Lennon, Elton John, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Youngbloods, Neil Young, Bob Dylan.
Энн Уилсон - американская рок-певица, которая достигла известности в составе сиэтлской/ванкуверской рок-группы Heart, возглавляемой ей вместе со своей младшей сестрой Нэнси.
В детстве Энн страдала от заикания, поэтому была очень застенчива, и начала увлекаться музыкой. В начале 1970-х она присоединилась к местной рок-группе White Heart (Белое сердце), которая вскоре сменила своё название на Hocus Pocus, а затем, в 1974 году, окончательно остановились на Heart.
В 1974 году младшая сестра Энн, Нэнси присоединилась к Heart и группа переехала в Канаду. В 1975 году, в Ванкувере они записали свой первый альбом Dreamboat Annie; В США он появился на прилавках в 1976 году. В 1977 году они выпускают альбом Little Queen, содержащий первый крупный хит группы - песню "Barracuda". В 1978 году выходит Dog & Butterfly. В 1984 году Энн Ann спела дуэтом с вокалистом канадской группы Loverboy Майком Рено песню "Almost Paradise" для фильма "Свободные", которая достигла 7 строчки в чарте Billboard Hot 100. в 1986 году она выпустила сольный сингл "The Best Man in the World", прозвучавший в фильме "Золотой ребёнок", с Эдди Мёрфи в главной роли. Сингл достиг 61 позиции в США. В 1988 году она записала дуэтом с вокалистом Cheap Trick Робином Задером песню "Surrender to Me" для фильма "Пьяный рассвет", с Мелом Гибсоном, Мишель Пфайффер и Куртом Расселом в главных ролях. Сингл достиг шестой позиции в чарте Billboard Hot 100.
(полная версия: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Уилсон,_Энн)
Ann Wilson performs a cover version of the musicians: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Animals, John Lennon, Elton John, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Youngbloods, Neil Young, Bob Dylan.
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest when I did, I came to have a fierce loyalty to Heart. For years, I have talked about the importance of this great band; not only have they made some great music themselves, they have been extremely important to other movements. Without Ann and Nancy Wilson rocking out for the last 35 years, I have argued, there would be no Seattle scene (say goodbye to Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden), no riot grrl bands (see ya to Sleater-Kinney and Bikini Kill and L7, all from the NW), and no female metal at all (well, okay, that’s a stretch).
So I’d love to say that Ann Wilson’s first solo record is an amazing work of musical art, giving us all insights into her life and musical vision and all that. Sadly, I can’t; it’s too all over the place, thematically, and, for a solo album, it relies too much on covers and on bizarre duet partners: Elton John? Really? In 2007? Was that really necessary?
But damn if she can’t still turn it out — she still possesses one of the great voices in rock history, and it is in full effect all over this album. To hear her tear into "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" and completely eat up duet partner Wynonna Judd…well, it’s pretty inspiring, is all. Her take on Neil Young’s "War of Man" with Alison Kraus sounds like it would be way too precious, but it’s actually pretty tough and rockish and angry. And it’s kind of hilarious that she takes on Led Zeppelin, considering that she’s been accused of aping Robert Plant for her whole career, only to turn "Immigrant Song" into a slow-burning folk-jazz piece with swirly psychedelic electronica.
It’s also pretty funny to hear her do "Jackson" with k.d. lang, but not really funny ha-ha, more like funny strange because you wouldn’t think their voices would work together as well as they do. And even though her chamber-blues cover of John Lennon’s "Isolation" ultimately fizzles (due to a somnolent backing track), Ann Wilson proves that she hasn’t lost a single bit of the glorious instrument that has been her trademark for more than three decades.
And yet just when I’m loving this record, bad things happen. The cover of "Get Together" is botched hippie nostalgia, as is the Rufus Wainwright/Shawn Colvin-enhanced version of "A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall". The album’s overarching theme is the shittiness of our war against Iraq, and I agree wholeheartedly with that, but that doesn’t mean I have to like the album’s most explicitly political song, the closer "Little Problems Little Lies," a tale of a dying soldier which manages to be both overwritten and underexplained. And, come on, Elton John? Singing on a soggy stringy "Where to Now St. Peter?"? Nope, sorry — I’m a tolerant man, but that’s just going too far.
So I had a lot higher hopes for this, but when it’s listened to as an actual album it is pretty good, especially for a 57-year-old woman releasing her first solo record. You’ll need to keep a quick finger on the "skip" button so you can avoid the boring stuff, but that could be said about a lot of records. The good news, ultimately, is that there is a lot more good material than bad here. That is kind of a triumph. But it would be a lot better to just hear a new Heart album — Jupiter’s Darling was, after all, pretty good. Here’s hoping that Ann has this solo jag out of her system now.
(popmatters.com/ann-wilson-hope-glory-2496205755.html) Review by Matt Cibula. 6 November 2007
01. Goodbye Blue Sky (written Pink Floyd) (03:12)
02. Where To Now St. Peter? (written Elton John. Duet with Sir Elton John) (04:38)
03. Jackson (written Lucinda Williams. Duet with K.D. Lang) (03:36)
04. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (written The Animals. Duet with Wynonna) (03:45)
05. Immigrant Song (written Led Zeppelin.) (03:43)
06. Darkness Darkness (written The Youngbloods. Featuring Nancy Wilson) (04:37)
07. Bad Moon Rising (written Creedence CR. Duet with Gretchen Wilson) (03:15)
08. War Of Man (written Neil Young. Featuring Alison Krauss) (04:38)
09. Get Together (written The Youngbloods. Featuring Nancy Wilson, Wynonna and Deana Carter) (04:03)
10. Isolation (written John Lennon.) (03:02)
11. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (written Bob Dylan. Featuring Shawn Colvin and Rufus Wainwright) (06:14)
12. Little Problems, Little Lies (03:31)
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