With 12 studio albums, various solo and side projects, and considerable sales success, it seems like it would be easy for a band like Heart to just sit back and coast to retirement. That, however, is not their style. In the last couple of years, they've been touring like a hungry new band, and are about to release (on 8/31) another new studio album. Any doubt about whether the Wilson sisters can still generate the same kind of sparks they did with their debut album in 1976 disappear within the first few bars. Here's my review of Heart's Red Velvet Car.
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Hi Dave,
I’ve been a Heart fan for years, but couldn’t quite take to a lot of this one.
Read my review here: http://realgonerocks.blogspot.com/2010/09/heart-red-velvet-car.html
My blog also has some other album reviews on it you may find of interest from a classic rock viewpoint. Please take a look…thanks.
Dave, I read your review AFTER purchasing and playing the Red Velvet Car and I found your response was very simular to mine. This one of the few albums I own where I find that I can’t skip through my 2 or 3 favorite songs and move on to the next cd. There NO filler tunes on this album. They’re all good. Heavy, base rich accusticals, lyrics that will worry you when you lie down to sleep, and rockers that have very nearly the 70’s sound of the group. I don’t feel I have wasted a single penny in it’s purchase price. Perhaps Real Gone, you were so impressed with the chilling high notes Ann hit doing power ballads, you failed to read that Ben Mink had her to intentially “hold back” on this recording.Her voice fits these tunes and I do not hear the crack you describe when she does go high in the rockers. Maybe next time Ann will sing Alone for you…just to get you back straight-on again.(grin)