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And Nancy can hang with the best of them. She's a gunslinger in her own right.

Unfortunately, it seems that all too often now, Nancy is strumming the ol' acoustic guitars now, rather than electric which she is actually pretty damn decent at when she does play it.
 

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She wasn't the lead guitar player on just about any track you can think of. Am I missing something?
 

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Not saying she was the lead, I'm saying that she CAN play a pretty decent electric set, but for some reason now, she seems to choose to mostly play the acoustic and I wish she'd mix it up more.
 

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It's weird but I thought that was always her thing. And she is quite good at it.
 

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Heart’s Christmas Concert Coming to Your TV

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If all you want for Christmas is two Wilson sisters singing with a bunch of famous friends, you’re going to love what Heart has in store for you on Dec. 25.

Ann and Nancy Wilson will lead the band back to its Seattle hometown for ‘Heart & Friends: Home for the Holidays,’ a Christmas Day special promising a “once-in-a-lifetime” event that will feature “an array of holiday songs written by Joni Mitchell, Harry Nilsson, Bob Dylan and Sammy Hagar … as well as some of Heart’s favorite songs.” Enthused Ann Wilson in a press release, “We are thrilled and delighted to be joined by our band and our friends onstage to ring in the holiday season for our fans everywhere.”

Those “friends” include Hagar, Shawn Colvin, Richard Marx and Pat Monahan from Train, all of whom are scheduled to join Heart onstage at the Benaroya Symphony Concert Hall. Marx will be on hand to reprise his vocal cameo in ‘All Through The Night,’ one of two new holiday recordings Heart recently released, and the whole show will be broadcast at 8 PM EST on AXS, the television network that recently aired specials dedicated to Cheap Trick and Kiss.

“We couldn’t have passed up this wonderful opportunity to celebrate the season with two of the most talented rock ‘n roll artists ever, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart,” explained AXS TV Founder Mark Cuban. “Having Shawn Colvin, Sammy Hagar, Richard Marx and Pat Monahan join them for this holiday special makes it the perfect gift for our audience to enjoy on Christmas night.”
That's awesome! I have to see this.
 

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Awesome band. IMO Ann Wilson is about the only singer besides Robert Plant that does justice to Zeppelin material.
There are also a few solo albums from both Ann and Nancy that are worth checking out.
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Just seen Heart live at Artpark in Lewiston,NY and once again they put on a phenomenal show! It was just one great song after another. They opened with Magic Man & went right into Barracuda followed by Heartless, What About Love, and Dreamboat Annie. Heart did play a few Zeppelin tunes (Immigrant Song, What is and What Should Never be, and Misty Mountain Hop) which I always love their Zeppelin covers and actually with their State of Euphoria box set it comes with a bonus 5 song CD titled Zeppish and it is 5 Zeppelin covers. Heart did surprise me as at one point Nancy stepped up to the mic and they did a really cool cover of Wings Let Me Roll it. Heart has a huge catalog of their own tunes where they didn't have to do any covers at all but they really seem to enjoy playing some of their favorite tunes and as I said I do enjoy their covers. At age 64 Ann's voice still sounds great!
 

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well, Heart is going to release a new album on 8th July... It's name's "Beautiful Broken" and it will contain some revisited songs, and three new songs.

This is the first single and titletrack... sung and played with Metallica's James Hetfield.
(I prefer the version contained in "Fanatic"...though)...

 

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well, Heart is going to release a new album on 8th July... It's name's "Beautiful Broken" and it will contain some revisited songs, and three new songs.

This is the first single and titletrack... sung and played with Metallica's James Hetfield.
(I prefer the version contained in "Fanatic"...though)...


This new album Beautiful Broken is actually pretty good, but in my opinion is WAY too ballad heavy.

The title song with James Hetfield is awesome -- reminds me of Kick It Out on steroids. I saw the band live a couple of months ago and Ann introduced this song by saying "picture the most beautiful gal you've ever seen, just totally beautiful, but f****** crazy. That's what this song is about".

The "re-imagined" songs here are a mixed bag; Sweet Darlin' is done really well (it's not better than the original, just different). Johnny Moon and Down on Me are both faithful to the originals but better production quality. The big disappointment is City's Burning which was a classic and didn't need to be re-made; the remake is slowed down, funked up, and (again IMO) atrocious. Language of Love and One Word were filler the first time around, and they are still filler in their remade forms.

Now for the good. All the new tracks are good: the title track, Two (a Ne-Yo ballad sung by Nancy is the best Nancy track I've ever heard), I Jump (opens with a sweet-sounding verse than erupts into an awesome, dark riff in the chours), and Heaven (sung live for years, but this is the first studio make. middle-eastern Zeppelin sounding and Ann's voice is phenomenal).

All in all it's an album with about five tracks that will go into my "best of" playlist on my iPod. I would have preferred an album of all new tracks, but this one is worth the cost of the album just for the four new tracks.
 

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