Mentioned songtitles on ‘You and Me’ (release April May 7th 2021 via Carry On): The Boxer, Daughter, 4 Edward, We Meet Again, You and Me (the next single!), Party at the Angel Ballroom, I’ll Find You, The Inbetween, The Dragon, The Rising, Dreams and Burn The House Down /Walk Away
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The latest updates about “You and Me” are below.
Updated May 23rd 2021: Nancy’s has released a video for her newest single “Daughter”. “Daughter” is prominently featured in the recently released Netflix film I Am All Girls. Of the recording, Wilson said “I initially recorded ‘Daughter’ for the film, a powerful story about sex trafficking in South Africa. I was drawn to the global tragedy of human trafficking and the lyrics sung from a women’s perspective also mirror the power of the girls untold stories. This film is a revelation and sheds meaning and light on these realities. Trafficking is a global phenomenon that impacts women around the world. I recorded this version as an anthem to them.”
Also, the album had great first week on the Billboard charts! #1 Top New Artist Albums | #6 Current Rock Albums | #6 Record Label Independent Current Albums | #9 Top New Artist Albums Consumption | #11 Internet Albums | #20 Top Current Albums | #25 Current Digital Albums | #27 Top Albums | #29 Digital Albums | #33 Top Albums w/TEA
Updated May 11th 2021: “Daughter” has been released as a new digital single.
Updated May 8th 2021: Nancy was on Entertainment Tonight!
Also: Nancy is said to have announced a 2LP vinyl in the summer with bonus tracks.
Updated May 6th 2021: Stream Nancy’s full album below
Updated May 3rd 2021: You can hear samples of all tracks at Japanese Amazon. More Japanese news: the CD has two bonustracks! “On the Way” (The bonus track “On The Way” is an updated version of “On A Plane” from the album Undercover Guitar by Julie Bergman & Nancy Wilson. Thank you Stafford Ann for all this information and the links) and “The Rising (radio edit)”.
And a new picture!
Updated April 29th 2021: “The Inbetween”
And new pix!
Updated April 25th 2021: Nancy tells us the story of and performs ‘4 Edward’.
Updated April 18th 2021: Nancy has shared her third track of the album! See below:
Updated March 31st 2021: Check out a new Nancy snippets: ‘We meet again’ ‘The Dragon’ and ‘The Inbetween’ here.
plus two new shots!
Updated March 8th 2021:
The new single: Spotify | Apple Music | iTunes | Amazon | YouTube
Updated March 7th 2021: a new promopicture has popped up!
Updated February 22nd 2021: Today Nancy made an official announcement! ‘You and Me’ is coming May 7th 2021!
: Jeremy Danger // Creative Director: Julia Rose// Hair & MUA: Thomas Bonetati)The track list is: 1. “You and Me” 2. “The Rising” 3. “I’ll Find You 4. “Daughter” 5. “Party at the Angel Ballroom” (feat. Duff McKagan & Taylor Hawkins) 6. “The Boxer” (feat. Sammy Hagar) 7. “Walk Away” 8. “The Inbetween” 9. “Dreams” (feat. Liv Warfield) 10. “The Dragon” 11. “We Meet Again” 12. “4 Edward”
First though we get the second single on March 8th, which is the title track!
Updated January 21st 2021: AustralianMusician:
Q: 2020 was a terrible year for the arts and things are yet to get back to any sense of normal. You weren’t idle. You recorded your debut solo album. What was it like recording an album during a pandemic?
A: It’s the blessing inside the curse because it’s the silver lining to being stuck at home for the first time since I was a kid basically. I joined Heart when I was 19 or 20 and I have been touring and travelling ever since, so this was the fist time ever I got to stay home for the summer and winter and be at home. This new place that we live in Northern California has a great music space, like an apartment above the garage area. Coming off the road from last time, I had all my stuff from storage that I would normally score with, plus my stage stuff brought here. So I could select my classic, favourite amplifiers, a sound deluxe microphone, a couple of Neumann microphones, a beautiful Fender Deluxe amplifier and some really sweet guitars, largely vintage or signature guitars. I’m not very techy and being a spoiled brat all my life, someone else would run the console for me or tune or restring the guitars for me. I have a girlfriend here who is way more techy than myself and she likes to string guitars and tune guitars, so I am so lucky. I have a couple of interface things, one called a Spire, where you can interface with really good Neumann microphones. What I do is record to a click, then email my tracks to my guy in Colorado and he puts them into his dropbox, does a mix of them then sends them back to me to approve it then he works on my notes then sends them to Seattle to the drummer to do his drum parts. He then send the files to the bass player’s dropbox and I can approve each level of a song as it goes through and eventually the keyboard guy adds his parts and then the lead player. These are all people who I played with on the last Heart tour, so we played a lot live together and know each other’s way of playing and almost read each others minds as players, so to me the end result sounds really natural and authentic and almost like it happened in the same room.
Q: You’ve had a long time to think about your debut album, what elements had to be present on this album for you to be happy with it and proud of it?
A: It came to me that now I was able to stay at home and it kind of encouraged my inner-child to get really creative with something that fans have been asking for for decades. So I reached back into my university college girl-self that was studying creative writing and learning mandolin and just being really creative. Also I wanted to write a lot of original songs, that was important to me, not just do covers, including one instrumental which is called Number For … as in For Edward. It’s kind of a tradition that I would have an acoustic instrumental. On an earlier Heart album, Silver Wheels was the intro to Crazy On You. People love that. A lot of fans on Instagram are playing Silver Wheels and learning Silver Wheels and telling people how they play Silver Wheels. Interestingly, no two people play it alike.
So I am really excited about this album. There’s a bunch of really cool people that sent files to. There’s Sammy Hagar. He does a cameo for me on one of the covers, The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel. Everybody knows that song and he used to be a boxer. His voice is so cool and he is such a good friend. I’ve got Taylor Hawkins from the Foo Fighters and Duff McKagan. They had a jam and I fashioned it into a cool rock song and then Taylor went back and sung a bunch of harmonies for me and he’s a really great singer too. I also have Liv Warfield from my previous band Roadcase Royale, she is singing on one of the covers, The Cranberries song Dreams. It’s been really fun to put it together. There’s a version of a Pearl Jam song called Daughter, which I’d already done a version of for a film that is about to come out. The film is called I Am All Girls and it’s a true story about human trafficking in South Africa. Doing a song like that for the film initially would be so meaningful to speak to so many young girls that are trafficked and not just in South Africa, it is everywhere. There are a lot of nice surprises (on the album). When I start hearing the songs in a row, it’s like … hey this doesn’t suck, this is really pretty good!
Updated January 20th 2021: Nancy launched a new signature guitar via YouTube and it appears she has also premiered a new song from her album. It seems to be a duet, so maybe it is Party At The Angel Ballroom?
Updated January 19 2021: Glide Magazine: Nancy: But with me and my guys who are helping me do this, I’ve got basically the lab Seattle, the lab Ausitn, the lab California and the lab Colorado. The guy who helps me mix is in Colorado and then he sends it back to me and I listen and then I give him notes; he remixes and then we send my basic over to the drum guy in Seattle and then everyone in Seattle puts the bass and stuff. So it’s been a long process because you’re not in the same room at all.One of the guys in Austin that I’ve worked on with other stuff before is going to master it. But everything is mixed. So pretty soon here it’s going to be all done. […] There’s an offer on the table from the Seattle Symphony to come up and do a livestream show with the Seattle Symphony in this amazing, beautiful performance hall called Benaroya Hall, where Heart actually did a Christmas show one time. There’s a huge pipe organ there and it’s all wooden and it’s beautiful; not a huge place but spacious and gorgeous and built for sound. I’ve got some string parts on the album on a song called “Burn The House Down,” so I totally want to do that, even if it’s a livestream concert or by then if we could even have real people in the room, we do it that way.
Blabbermouth: In April 2021, Nancy will release the first-ever solo album of her storied career via Carry On Music. Nancy plays guitar and sings every song on the new album which features collaborations with Sammy Hagar, Duff McKagan (GUNS N’ ROSES) and Taylor Hawkins (FOO FIGHTERS). The first single, “The Rising”, is Nancy’s stunning rendition of the Bruce Springsteen song.
Updated January 16th 2021: blabbermouth article:
HEART’s Nancy Wilson talked to Dave Lawrence of Hawaii Public Radio about her upcoming debut solo album, “You And Me”, which is due later this year via Carry On Music. She said (hear audio below): “Three of the songs are covers. The rest of them — the eight other songs — are originals. I’ve got some really cool guest stars on the album. A version of ‘The Boxer’, a SIMON & GARFUNKEL song, I’ve got Sammy Hagarguesting on that one with me. Taylor Hawkins [FOO FIGHTERS] guests on another song, and Duff McKagan [GUNS N’ ROSES]. And then ‘Daughter’, which is a PEARL JAM song. It was originally meant for a film that is still yet to come out, since everything is stalled out. But [the film is] called ‘I Am All Girls’, based on a true story about human trafficking in South Africa.
“I have an instrumental song on this album called ‘For Edward’, which is dedicated to Eddie Van Halen, obviously,” she revealed. “Because it’s a story about I was the first one to ever give him an acoustic guitar. When we were touring with those guys [VAN HALEN] in the ’80s, he was, like, ‘I like how you play that acoustic.’ And I said, ‘Well, why don’t you play more acoustic?’ And he goes, ‘Well, I don’t have an acoustic.’ And I said, ‘You don’t have an acoustic? What?’ And so I went and got him one out of my stash and I gave it to him. Early the next morning, in the hotels, back when people would ring your room, he rang my room and he played for me this beautiful piece of acoustic guitar instrumental music on the phone. I was so touched, and it was sobeautiful, it was one of the prettiest things I’d ever heard. So I tried to return the favor by making a beautiful little tribute to him.”
Updated January 14th 2021: ABCnewsradio: Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson has been preparing her first solo studio album, which is tentatively scheduled for a March release. Wilson tells ABC Audio that the album will feature seven original songs and three covers, among them a rendition of Simon & Garfunkel ‘s 1970 classic “The Boxer.” Nancy reveals that she decided to record a version of “The Boxer” because she performed the Paul Simon -penned tune during Heart’s 2019 Love Alive tour and it always got a great response from the audience. “[I]t was such a cool moment in the show, ’cause people really like to sing along to the chorus, the ‘lie-la-lie’ part,” Wilson recalls. “So everybody just, without prompting, would…sing along all together every time. And somebody asked me, ‘Why don’t you put that on your album, since it was such a hit at the show?’ And I said, ‘OK, I’ll do that.'” Wilson says her album also will feature a song inspired by Simon’s writing, a tune called called “We Meet Again” that was built around a guitar part she wrote for the theme of the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, for which she composed the score. “[I]t was the first song I wrote for this album,” Nancy tells ABC Audio, adding that the concept came to her as she reflected on having a break from the road because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “[Y]ou feel like you’re kind of lost to your home life, when you’re always…moving past everything else” she explains. “Like you’re rolling past these windows where you see cozy family scenes inside, but you don’t get to go in.” She says a second single is expected out this month.
Updated November 25th 2020: On Blabbermouth Nancy revealed new details about her upcoming project:
Nancy said: “[The] title is ‘You And Me’. That’s a song on the album, called ‘You And Me’. And it just turned out really great. It’s a song my longtime collaborator friend Sue Ennis and [I] wrote together. We kind of blended two different songs that we had written about our moms, actually, and we made a new song out of it called ‘You And Me’. And it’s just so simple, I just thought, ‘Okay, well, that’s pretty easy to remember.'”
On the topic of whether there are any guests on the album, Nancy said: “I’ve got one song that I wrote with Duff McKagan [GUNS N’ ROSES] and Taylor Hawkins [FOO FIGHTERS]. They had a jam that they shared with me, and I finished it. And it’s called ‘Party At The Angel Ballroom’. And actually, I covered [SIMON & GARFUNKEL‘s] ‘The Boxer’, which I did with HEART last year, with Sammy Hagar guesting on that. He’s a buddy. He sounds really good on that. I have this other big rocker. I said, ‘Do you wanna sing on this big rocker?’ And he’s, like, ‘It’s kind of expected. It would be a little less interesting.’ I said, ‘Okay. What about ‘The Boxer’?’ And he’s, like, ‘I love that song. I’ve loved that song forever.'”
Another song that will be included on “You And Me” is Nancy‘s cover of PEARL JAM‘s “Daughter”, which she originally recorded for “I Am All Girls”, a South African film which shines a light on human trafficking. “It’s a real story,” she said. “It’s a really cool movie, and it should be in that too pretty soon.”
Updated November 9th 2020: According to Nancy in this interview below, it is tentatively called ‘In the lab”.
Added November 6th 2020: iHeart > Nancy: There’s another single that’s gonna come out called “I’ll Find You” in early-January. Probably early in March the rest of it will all come out. There’s a place where we’re talking about doing a show for my thing when it comes out, probably in March.
Added November 3rd 2020: Blabbermouth: Nancy: “I’m just [working] at home. We just recently moved up to Northern California here, and I have this space now, which I sort of never had before, where I can just leave everything out and not have to hide stuff from the kids if they come barreling through the room later. So I can leave my setup in place and just walk in there and be inspired.”
“I’m just living and breathing songwriting right now,” she continued. “The songwriting feels really gratifying. I wake up writing in my head, and I fall asleep writing in my head. ‘Cause it’s, like, ‘Oh, I don’t have a verse yet,’ [or], ‘I’ve gotta try to make that cooler.’ And it’s gotta be inspiring. It’s gotta have a lot of variation. So there’s some big rockers and there’s some big ballads. So it’s real gratifying. And I love how it’s turning out.”
Asked if she is planning on putting out a bunch of singles prior to the arrival of the full record, Nancy said: “There’ll be a second single, probably in early January, and then in March probably the rest of it all, all at once. Because it feels like a body of work to me. That’s kind of the old-school method. I’m a fan of that method, because I’m old school.”
October 22nd 2020: Rolling Stone: She’s still putting the finishing touches on the album, but she’s tentatively calling it The Lab, and her lead-off single, a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “The Rising,” is available right now. […] She also covered Pearl Jam’s “Daughter” after submitting a version of the song for the upcoming movie I Am All the Girls, which deals with the trafficking of young women. […] The original tune “Party at the Angel Ballroom” features contributions from Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins. […] Other original tunes include the Paul Simon-inspired “We Meet Again,” “The Inbetween,” “I’ll Find You,” and “The Dragon,” which she wrote in the Nineties for Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley. […]
Heart will likely tour again once mass gatherings are viable. In the meantime, Wilson is just happy she can finally call herself a solo artist after all these years. “It’s been really fun and really rewarding,” she says. “And it’s finally my turn.”
Update October 1st 2020: Nancy: Excited to announce that I will be releasing my first ever solo album in early 2021 on my new label, Carry On Music! The journey starts with the release of my rendition of Bruce Springsteen’s “The Rising” on October 23. Pre save by clicking here https://smarturl.it/NWTheRising
From the label: “There have been so many times I was asked about when I would ever put out a solo album,” she explains. “Well, the time is now. Having been unable to tour and having spent so much time at home has made a good space for creating new music.” Nancy plays guitar and sings on all the songs on the entire album. The first single to be released is her stunning rendition of Bruce Springsteen’s “The Rising.” “I’ve also covered a few favorite songs, and because of these troubled times we’re living in, ‘The Rising’ has been on my mind,” Nancy continues. “I wanted to make something uplifting and aspirational for those of us who are suffering with all this sickness and loss. I hope this song can help lift our spirits.” Tom Lipsky, President of Carry On Music, commented “We are proud and excited that Nancy has chosen Carry On Music to bring her first solo body of work to fans around the world. The album is deep, the lyrics inspire, and the music is beautifully crafted. Fans will love this album!”
Added July 3rd 2020: Nancy wrote: “I’m working on a new EP called The Lab – Nancy Wilson and her mad scientists …With members of Heart, Eric Tessmer, Jeff Fielder and more. Coming soon..”
And soon enough Nancy premiered a Bruce Springsteen cover on Backstreets.com: PREMIERE: “THE RISING,” STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART. With new side project The Lab, Nancy Wilson salutes “true heroes among us” Nancy Wilson of Heart has always been a Bruce Springsteen fan, but holed up in quarantine, one of his songs kept coming up again and again for her. When she began working on new music, writing new material remotely with some of the members of Heart, and other players in a side project, there was a Springsteen song that just wouldn’t let go of her. [more]
“The Lab,” is working on an EP. The line-up includes, besides Nancy, three players from Heart — Ben Smith, Andy Stoller, and Ryan Waters — along with two other acclaimed musicians: Austin’s Eric Tessmer and Seattle’s Jeff Fielder (who usually plays with Mark Lanegan).
