Heart - Beautiful Broken

Heart returns with Beautiful Broken

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 Heart's 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 Metallica's 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 1976's 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 they've 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 It's 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 game...At the end, I stood up and applauded as one would after just having witnessed an excellent opera (or a wonder of nature). Because that's exactly how I felt." - William Duvall, Alice in Chains

 

Side 1

Beautiful Broken

Two

Sweet Darlin'

I Jump

Johnny Moon

Side 2

Heaven

City's Burning

Down On Me

One Word

Language Of Love

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