Reunited Heart at Work on ‘Exciting and Inspiring’ New Songs

Nancy Wilson stated that Heart is working on new songs collectively, seven years after they launched their most up-to-date studio album.

The guitarist, who’s at the moment touring with a band referred to as Nancy Wilson’s Heart, instructed WBAB that she and her sister Ann Wilson are working collectively on materials that’s “closer to what you would have heard us originally do in the ’70s, late ’70s. So it’s really fun, it’s just exciting and inspiring.”

Heart’s final launch was 2016’s Beautiful Broken. That similar 12 months, Ann’s husband was arrested for placing certainly one of Nancy’s youngsters. He ultimately pleaded responsible to 2 counts of fourth-degree assault. Apart from a 2019 Heart tour, the Wilson sisters have principally centered on their solo careers since then, with Ann releasing Immortal in 2018 and Fierce Bliss in 2022, whereas Nancy issued You and Me in 2021.

According to Ann Wilson, it is inventive not private points which have saved the sisters from working collectively. “Nancy and I are OK with each other,” she defined in 2022. “We just have different ideas for what Heart should be, and we haven’t figured out a compromise yet.”

Although Nancy instructed WBAB that her foremost focus was a undertaking named Tomboy that covers songs written by her male associates, she shared her enthusiasm for the music she is working on along with her sister. She additionally revealed that she had reunited with former songwriting accomplice Sue Ennis, who has co-written greater than 80 Heart songs, together with “Straight On” and “Even It Up.”

“I have some lyrics mainly that I worked on with Sue and took to Ann,” Nancy Wilson famous. “And there’s a couple of things that I’m really excited about. Very cool. Like stuff that you wouldn’t have heard us do in the ’80s. … It’s been a really nice kind of rediscovery of our relationship, working on music together again. So, yeah, I’m really happy about that.”