Ann Wilson - Hope & Glory
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Artist: Ann WilsonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Music Label: Zoe Records
Soundtracks:
- Goodbye Blue Sky - with Nancy Wilson
- Where to Now St. Peter? - with Elton John
- Jackson - with k.d. lang
- We Gotta Get Out of This Place - with Wynonna
- Immigrant Song
- Darkness, Darkness - with Nancy Wilson
- Bad Moon Rising - with Gretchen Wilson
- War of Man - with Alison Krauss
- Get Together - with Nancy Wilson, Deana Carter, and Wynonna
- Isolation
- A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall -with Rufus Wainwright and Shawn Colvin
- Little Problems, Little Lies
Free Music Notes for Hope & Glory
Free Music Review: Music is old and boring not the songs.
Hit: 1 Stars
This is the same old, dull music retro artists make that won't even get played on adult contemporary stations which I don't listen to since now they are polluted with music by the same ten artists.
Ann Wilson keeps singing like she has a sore throat or uses a deep voice that a male transevestite would have. She is trying so hard to sing "proper" that she has no distinct sound. Music studios with competent producers can do anything so there is no excuse for sounding so bad. The music is dull and gross proving Ben Mink has no skill. Sound effects would have made better music than the people playing the instruments here. She needed synthesizers and sounds effects and needed to sing in an energized way.
This is another example of a retro artist so desperately trying to be new and relevant but they end up producing a mishmash of nothing. Ann Wilson should have done a solo recording back in 1987 when "Best Man in the World" was out. This music is like new age music combined with degenerate country with the help of goofus wainwright(who can't even fill 1,000 seat venues even with tons of free media coverage) and wretched wilson. The dull music for "survivers" and womyn and girlish styles & themes used by Ann and Nancy are so incredibly old and boring at this point. Don't waste your money on this because you won't be able to resell it on Amazon now that digital songs are availabe.
Aside from "Sand" and their xmas recording Ann and Nancy haven't made 2 good songs since 1995. It's either time for them to retire or else fans needs to retire from being Wilson sister fans.
Motley Crue recently released a cd which I am told mimics the sound of their best years. Bon Jovi, who I don't like, is making his concerts fun, energetic and he plays the songs his fans like and remember. Ann should have made music which made her fans feel energized crica 195-1987. She is wasting her time and wasting her reputation/clout and she is wasting the money and expectations of fans.
Hope & Glory Poster
Eight years after her sister, Nancy, released her own solo album, the all-acoustic Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop, Heart's lead singer Ann Wilson takes a center-stage bow with Hope & Glory, a collection of social-commentary, message, and protest songs. Mostly covers from the '60s and '70s fleshed out with her own affecting "Little Problems, Little Lies" (told from the point of view of a dying soldier in the Iraq war), the album also happens to be duets with megawatt rock, country, and folk luminaries. Released, appropriately, on September 11, Hope & Glory--produced by Ben Mink (k.d. lang, Feist)--isn't a political treatise so much as an artful account of the suffering and devastation that all war and economic downturn brings. Yet several of the songs are so bombastic (particularly Elton John's "Where to Now St. Peter," with Sir Elton himself in attendance) as to suggest, well, if not the Apocalypse, certainly Doomsday. (Check out Pink Floyd's "Goodbye Blue Sky," one of three songs on which the sisters Wilson harmonize). Not all the material keeps the focus on Wilson and friends, mostly because the tunes are so intrinsically identified with the original artist (John Lennon's "Isolation," Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," where Rufus Wainwright and Shawn Colvin seem misused and out of place). And though it was always easy to draw a stylistic straight line from Led Zeppelin to Heart, Wilson's treatment of the former's "Immigrant Song" comes across as heavy-handed. She fares much better covering two other bands, the hippiefied Youngbloods (the chilling "Darkness, Darkness" and "Get Together") and the Animals ("We Gotta Get Out of This Place," on which Wilson and Nashville's Wynonna unite for a Joplinesque rave-up). The hard-singing Wilson strikes yin-yang perfection with both k.d. lang (on Lucinda Williams's "Jackson") and the pillow-voiced Alison Krauss (Neil Young's "War of Man"), even as her collaboration with Gretchen Wilson, "Bad Moon Rising," reduces the CCR classic to near buffoonery with a dominant hoedown fiddle. Hope & Glory is an uneven effort, and with its pervasive downer vibe, certainly a misnamed one. --Alanna NashAnn Wilson is one of the best known voices in rock, having fronted the legendary band Heart since the mid-'70s. With hits like "Crazy on You" and "Barracuda," Heart was one of the most popular bands of the album rock era. In the '80s Heart found even greater success with monster MTV and radio hits such as "Alone" and "Never." Hope & Glory is Ann Wilson's first-ever solo album and includes guest appearances from luminaries Elton John, Deana Carter, Shawn Colvin, Alison Krauss, k.d. lang, Rufus Wainwright, Gretchen Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Wynonna on a variety of classic covers selected for their insight into important current social issues, including Elton John's "Where to Now St. Peter?," Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song," and Neil Young's "War of Man." Produced by Ben Mink (k.d. lang, Feist, Barenaked Ladies).
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Hope & Glory is her first-ever solo album. Guest appearances from Elton John, Alison Krauss, Gretchen Wilson, Rufus Wainwright, Deana Carter, Shawn Colvin, Wynonna, k.d. lang, and Nancy Wilson Features classic rock covers which Heart fans will love, including Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song, The Animals' We Gotta Get Outta This Place and The Youngbloods' Get Together National TV appearances on ABC Sports, The View, VH1, and more Heart is touring through September -a solo tour for Ann is planned for fall.
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