Heart on The Today Show on August 31st

Red Velvet Car

Heart Will Be In New York Release Week To Appear on The Today Show, Fox & Friends, ShopNBC and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

“WTF” and “Hey You” Seeing Success at Radio

Los Angeles, California, August 19, 2010

With anticipation mounting for Heart´s August 31 release of their first new studio album in six years, Red Velvet Car, Heart is seeing success on the road and at radio with their singles “WTF” and “Hey You” seeing increased airplay on AC, AAA and Classic Rock stations across the country. Ann and Nancy Wilson will be in New York City in support of their new release and will be appearing on several national television shows including: “Fox & Friends” (9/1), “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” (9/2), “The Today Show” (8/31), and “ShopNBC” (8/29). Appearances on “The Joy Behar Show” will air on August 25 and on NPR´s “Weekend Edition” on September 4.

“The barracudas are back and at the top of their game.” (Rolling Stone, September 2, 2010)

“Aggressive, Delicate and Enduring” (New York Times, August 4, 2010)

“Red Velvet Car, to be released by Sony Music´s Legacy Recordings, boasts an evolved sound that doesn’t pander to the iPod generation. The women of Heart have strong stories to tell through the music.” (The Virginian-Pilot, August 13, 2010)

Like all Heart albums, Red Velvet Car rocks hard but also has a deep acoustic side. Nancy Wilson has long been known to play her acoustic guitar with rock ferocity. This time an abundance of resonant acoustic instruments (guitars, mandolin, dobro, banjo, fiddle, viola, cello, and autoharp), played by Nancy Wilson and the album´s producer, Ben Mink, are showcased in Heart´s unique style. Nine of the album’s songs were written for, and appear for the first time on Red Velvet Car. The album’s closer, “Sand,” is a newly recorded version of a song originally written and recorded by the Lovemongers, Ann and Nancy’s 1990’s acoustic side project. The release of Red Velvet Car heralds Legacy’s forthcoming reissues of the classic Heart catalog in new physical and digital editions.

Ann Wilson and her younger sister, Nancy Wilson, first showed the world that women can rock when their band Heart stormed the charts in the ’70s with hits like “Crazy on You”, “Magic Man”, “Barracuda”, “Straight On”, “Even It Up”, “Kick It Out” and so many more. Not only did the Wilson sisters lead the band, they wrote the songs, and played the instruments too, making them the first women in rock to do so. Heart continued topping the charts through the ´80s and into the ´90s with huge hits like “These Dreams”, “Alone”, “What About Love”, “If Looks Could Kill”, “Never” and a string of other hits that showcased the sisters´ enormous talents as both musicians and singers. Along the way, Heart sold more than 30 million records, had 21 top 40 hits, sold out arenas worldwide, and had a profound influence on rock music.

Set Your Recorders! HEART on Television (Check your local listings for times that are not shown)
Wed. 08/25 – Behind The Music Remastered – HEART VH1 Classic 5pm PST
Wed. 08/25 – The Joy Behar Show HLN 6pm PST
Fri. 08/27 – HEART: Night at Sky Church VH1 Classic 9pm EST
Sun. 08/29 – ShopNBC
Tues. 08/31 – The Today Show
Wed. 09/01 – Fox & Friends
Thurs. 09/02 – Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Sat. 09/04 – NPR’s WeekendEdition

Keep a eye on that Perez Hilton!

Nancy

Management has given a heads up for a contest the coming days through Perez! Sounds wild!

Added April 26th: it’s a contest to win tickets for An Evening with Women and a meet & greet! It’s on Perez now!

Tomorrow: UPDATED Behind the Music

Saturday, March 20th at 10PM ET, VH1 Classic (USA)

Behind the Music Remastered picks up where the original “Behind the Music” episodes left off, VH1 Classic will air brand new interviews, footage, and video clips that updates the story over the last 10 to 15 years.

Tidbits and audio coming in from Seattle DVD recording

Show Poster

Mongers reporting:

• Performed 6  new tracks, including `WTF´, ´Hey you´,´Safronia’s Mark´,´ There You Go´, ´Sand´ and ´Red velvet car´
• Lead in music…instead of the who was… Wheels – new record
• The DVD was shot with 8 cameras in high definition.
• ´Red velvet car´ is the title track
• New artwork with a cargrill and a heart with wings (visible on wtf video below!)
• ´Sand´ is confirmed for the new album
• Album ´Red velvet car´drops in July (confirmed by management)
• Ben mink also played in the band
• Ann, Nancy and Alison Krauss sang on ´These dreams´
• Roger Fisher was in the audience as a guest of the band

Red Velvet Car (THANX SO EFFIN MUCH TO PAUL)

WTF (THANX SO EFFIN MUCH TO PAUL AGAAAIN!)

´Safronia’s Mark´ (PAUL WE LOVE YOU!)

Setlist (thank you timstar78!)

Barracuda
Never (Nancy harmonica solo)
Kick It Out
Straight On
Love Alive
Mistral Wind
Back To Avalon (Nancy vox)
These Dreams (Allison Krauss lead vox)
WTF – New song (Ann vox)
Hey You – New song (Nancy vox)
Red Velvet Car – New song (Ann vox)
Sifonia’s Mark – New song (Ann vox)
What About Love
Alone (trio: Ann, Nancy, Debbie)
Love Reign O’er Me
Crazy On You

Encores
Sand (Ann & Nancy duet – Ann confirmed it will be on the new album)
Your Long Journey (Krauss song)
There You Go Again – New song (Ann vox)
Magic Man

Here a set of pictures on Flicker where they are setting the stage

Setlist from management:

Lead in music…instead of the who was…

Wheels – new record

Set list

Barracuda
Never
Kick It Out
Straight On
Love Alive
Mistral Wind
(band introductions…Nancy forgets to announce Ann)
Avalon
These Dreams – Alison Krauss lead vocals
WTF (World Taekwon Do Federation)
Hey You – Nancy Vocal – Nancy on Autoharp
Red Velvet Car – Ben Mink on fiddle
Safronia’s Mark – Alison & Ben on fiddles – Nancy on mando
What About Love
Alone
Love Reign
Crazy on You (short ending)

Sand (Ann & Nancy – slower version)
Long Journey – Ann, Nancy, Alison (from Raising Sand album)
There You Go
Magic Man

Pictures of Ann & Nancy arriving at Henson Studios

Ann arriving for the recording of "We are the world" for Haiti

Nancy arriving for the recording of "We are the world" for Haiti

Heart joins ´We are the world´remake for Haiti!

A&N at the recording!

MTV.COM

LOS ANGELES — The energy was electric Monday night (February 1) at Henson Studios as more than 80 of music’s biggest stars gathered for a charity remake of “We Are the World” in support of Haitian earthquake relief.

“I feel like a kid in a candy store,” Wyclef Jean said, speaking to the press about the idea of remaking such an iconic song, which is getting production help from RedOne and Will.I.Am. “What’s bigger than a contribution is that you lend your voice,” the Haitian native said earlier in the day to his peers while trying to inspire them during the session, which began around 3 p.m. and was expected to last well into the night.

Kanye, wearing a red jacket with sparkling gold crisscross accents, stood center in the front row, between Wyclef and Hudson.

Among the soloists whose sessions were screened for journalists at press time were Bieber, Dion and Groban. Weezy also came out and humbly noted that he recorded the solo originally sung by Bob Dylan.

The inspirational lyrics were laid down over a track that had a more modern Southern hip-hop bounce to it. The recording session took place almost 25 years to the day since the original song for African famine relief was recorded.

“The experience was out of this world,” said Bieber, who sang Lionel Richie’s original opening line. The video for the song, which is being shot in 3-D, will debut February 12. (TDHS: “We Are the World — 25 for Haiti” will premiere this month during coverage of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics on NBC, according to a release from promoter AEG Live.)

SKIP TO 6 MINUTES TO SEE ANN AND NANCY ARRIVE!

Still from TMZ.com: Ann on the left in the back

Ann Wilson on the left

Ann & Nancy (thanx to Timstar78 for these pictures from Wire)

Ann & Nancy

Ann & Nancy

Ann & Nancy recording

The artists on ´We are the world`

USATODAY: Despite a total cast turnover, Nancy Wilson of Heart saw a strong parallel to the 1985 lineup. ”I just remember thinking, ‘What an odd collection of unlikely people that somehow managed to be cool together anyway,’ ” she said. “That’s how it felt tonight.” USATODAY: “Quincy Jones was just beaming like the sun,” Heart’s Nancy Wilson said, “and the room got hotter.”

Beat goes on for Heart

Nancy

Arizona Daily Star, January 28th 2010

Nancy Wilson is understandably excited these days.

She and big sister Ann Wilson are catching a gusty second wind with their band, Heart. They are finishing a new album – their first studio effort in six years – and their fan base is getting larger and younger.

“There’s so much excitement right now,” Nancy, 55, said during a phone call from home in Los Angeles last week. “We’re about to do a cover shoot for the new album. The new album is getting really close. . . . It’s appearing in front of our eyes.”

Set to be released in July, the album follows 2004’s “Jupiter’s Darling.” It’s the fruit of years of touring with this lineup of musicians, which Nancy Wilson calls strong and exciting.

Wilson won’t disclose the album’s name – there’s a fan club contest centered on it - and she can’t really define it beyond saying it’s not a rehash of their signature 1970s and ’80s driving rock and monster ballads.

“It’s not just big rock, big metal or electronic sound. It’s really human,” she says. “But it also rocks harder because of that, because it’s more personal. There’s a lot of electric and a lot of acoustic and big drums and small moments. We’re kind of a variety show in that way. But it’s real cohesive.

“So see it’s hard to describe: ‘It’s really cohesive, but it’s really dynamic, but it’s really hard, but it’s really soft.’ I guess you have to hear it.”

Unfortunately, the band isn’t ready to play the new material live, so Tucson won’t hear any of it on Sunday, when Heart will play at the Desert Diamond Casino to make up for a canceled October date. The band had to bail out when most of its members came down with the flu.

“That was the H1N1 – the biggie,” she says. “We’ve played a lot of times when we were really sick, but that was a little bigger than we could handle.”

The new album is the latest chapter in the four-decade story of the trailblazing rockers. The sisters helped pave the way for other female rockers with a string of hits such as “Magic Man,” “What About Love,” “These Dreams,” “Straight On,” “Barracuda” and “The Woman in Me.”

In their 1970s and ’80s heyday, they sold out arenas worldwide on the strength of critically acclaimed albums, starting with their 1976 debut, “Dreamboat Annie.”

In the mid-1990s, the sisters took a break to raise families – both have two children – and to pursue other projects.

Ann, 59, released a solo album, “Hope & Glory,” in 2007.

Nancy worked on the soundtracks for several movies of her husband, Cameron Crowe, including “Almost Famous,” “Jerry Maguire” and “Vanilla Sky.”

The two returned to touring in 2002, reuniting with longtime fans and introducing themselves to new audiences.

“In the last three or four years, more and more very young kids are showing up, and they are just muscling their way to the front row. It’s been fantastic,” Nancy Wilson says, adding that the band’s resurgence is courtesy of the video game “Guitar Hero,” TV’s “American Idol” and the country’s fascination with the 1980s. “The kids know the music. They know our songs.”

Even Wilson’s twin sons, who turned 10 last Saturday, are fans. On the road with mom, “they just get their feathers fluffed up. ‘Oh, mom. You rock, mom!’

“It’s just so great to be ‘cool,’ at least for a while – until the morning of their 13th birthday,” she jokes.

Ask her what is left to do in a career studded with so many milestones and merit, and Wilson becomes even more philosophical.

“Everything’s left to do,” she says, sounding every bit a rocker on the rise.