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| Artist : Ann Wilson |
| Album : Hope And Glory-(Advance) |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
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| Label : ZOE / Rounder Records |
| Year : 2007 |
| Genre : Pop |
| Rip date : Aug-08-2007 |
| Store date : Sep-11-2007 |
| Size : 69,4 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| 01 - Goodbye Blue Sky feat. Nancy Wilson 03:13 |
| 02 - Where To Now St. Peter feat. Elton John 04:38 |
| 03 - Jackson feat. K.D. Lang 03:36 |
| 04 - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place feat. 03:45 |
| Wynonna |
| 05 - Immigrant Song 03:43 |
| 06 - Darkness Darkness feat. Nancy Wilson 04:38 |
| 07 - Bad Moon Rising feat. Gretchen Wilson 03:16 |
| 08 - War Of Man feat. Alison Krauss 04:39 |
| 09 - Get Together feat. Nancy Wilson, Deana 04:04 |
| Carter And Wynonna |
| 10 - Isolation 03:03 |
| 11 - Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall feat. Rufus 06:14 |
| Wainwright And Shawn Colvin |
| 12 - Little Problems Little Lies 03:32 |
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| 48:21 min |
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| With Heart only intermittently active in the early 21st century, Ann |
| Wilson took the opportunity to release her first-ever solo album, |
| something her sister Nancy Wilson, Heart's other half, took care of back |
| in 1999. But where Nancy's solo debut was a live, acoustic effort |
| comprised of both original material and covers, Ann has gone the nearly |
| -all-covers route for the Ben Mink-producedHope & Glory; only one song, |
| the album-closing "Little Problems, Little Lies," comes from Wilson's |
| own pen. Specifically, Ann turns her attention toward songs that |
| ostensibly deal with social and political hot-button issues, loaded with |
| messages of war, peace, hard times and, mostly, imminent doom. It's a |
| bleak album to be sure, undoubtedly inspired by the downtrodden national |
| mood of the times in which it was recorded (that would be the George W. |
| Bush era ù perhaps it's no coincidence that the album's release date |
| fell on the sixth anniversary of 9/11). Ann's voice is strong and |
| convincing on these tunes, largely drawn from the '60s and '70s with a |
| few exceptions, and she's joined by big-name collaborators on most, |
| making Hope & Glory a duets album as well as Ann's first solo. Elton |
| John aids Ann on the anti-war "Where to Now, St. Peter?" which first |
| appeared on John's 1971 Tumbleweed Connection album and remains as |
| poignant a lyric today as it was then. The futility and stupidity of |
| armed conflict is also the subject of Neil Young's "War of Man," for |
| which Alison Krauss teams up with Ann. Nancy Wilson is present on three |
| tracks: Pink Floyd's "Goodbye Blue Sky" and two by the sadly underrated |
| Youngbloods, the hopeful Summer of Love anthem "Get Together" (which |
| also features Deana Carter and Wynonna) and the considerably more |
| ominous "Darkness Darkness," from that group's stellar Elephant Mountain |
| album. While Ann pulls off the former cover admirably, her take on the |
| latter is a clear example of a song whose original rendition has never |
| been topped ù Robert Plant attempted that one as well in 2002 and came |
| up short. Speaking of Plant, Heart always owed a lot to Led Zeppelin and |
| Ann must have relished the thought of giving Zep's "Immigrant Song" a |
| shot. This one, too, though tailor-made for her throaty hard rock wail, |
| only succeeds in making the listener want to break out the prototype. |
| Ditto John Lennon's "Isolation" ù who could ever hope to capture the |
| desperation behind Lennon's own reading of that one? Ann fares better on |
| Lucinda Williams' "Jackson," the Animals' "We Gotta Get out of This |
| Place" (also with Wynonna) and, with Gretchen Wilson (no relation), |
| turns out a rocking "Bad Moon Rising," the foreboding Creedence |
| Clearwater Revival rocker. Of the covers, that leaves the obligatory |
| Dylan, and Ann goes with the apocalyptic "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," |
| with Rufus Wainwright and Shawn Colvin. Wainwright's plaintive warbling |
| may seem to be out of sync with such a stark lyric, but he saves the day |
| here, bringing an appropriate dread to the tune that neither Ann nor |
| Colvin are able to muster. Finally, the Ann Wilson original wraps things |
| up. An acoustic-based, country-ish ballad, it's consistent with the mood |
| of the record, part depressed and part cautiously optimistic. It also |
| sports one of her most heartfelt and less derivative vocals on the set. |
| Hopefully the next time around she'll find enough to say on her own to |
| release a solo album of her own material. |
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