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Sony Legacy – October 2nd 2012 – 10 tracks (Best Buy: 13 tracks) – Produced by Ben Mink June 10th 2016<\/b>: According to hitsdailydouble.com Fanatic has sold 50.000 copies so far in the US.<\/p>\n May 5th 2013<\/strong>: Billboard reported on April 9th 2013: “It sold 43,000 copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan” December 24th 2012<\/strong>: number 16!<\/p>\n December 19th 2012<\/strong>: “Dear Old America” is now at number 17<\/p>\n December 10th 2012<\/strong>: “Dear Old America” is now at number 19.<\/p>\n December 9th 2012<\/strong>: “Dear Old America” cracks the top 20 on the radio chart and I think that means it’s a bigger hit on the radio than “Fanatic” and “Walking Good”.<\/p>\n December 2nd 2012<\/strong>: “Dear Old America” is still going up in the radio chart. This week it’s at number 23.<\/p>\n November 25th 2012<\/strong>: “Fanatic” spent 3 weeks in total on the Billboard album 200. Both leadsingles “Fanatic” and “Walkin’ Good” are no longer charting on the radio. However the release of the new Veteran’s Day video for “Dear Old America” has sparked some radio airplay on Mainstream Rock formats as the song is currently in the top 30 on Mediabase. Also: this week a new digital single was released and it’s a special one: it has two tracks and both are club-remixes for the blistering “A Million Miles”. I hope these two new initiatives spark some new life in the album.<\/p>\n October 25th 2012<\/strong>: “Fanatic” is at number 152 in its third week on the Album 200.<\/p>\n Added October 20th 2012<\/strong>: In the UK “Fanatic” has entered at number 142, which is higher than the 196 for Red Velvet Car<\/p>\n Added October 18th 2012<\/strong>: Fanatic has dropped to number 82 in its second week on the US Billboard chart, with sales of 5.677, totaling 22.091. Meanwhile: Heart has launched a campaign<\/a> to gather photo’s of veterans for a new official video for what is most likely a new single: “Dear Old America”<\/p>\n Added October 13th 2012<\/strong>: Fanatic has entered the Billboard Album 200 at number 24 and the Rock album chart at number 12. 16.253 units sold (soundscan) | Also “Fanatic” is played in stadiums: All MLB Playoff teams have “Fanatic” and are reportedly playing it: SF Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Oakland A’s, Washington Nationals. Others confirmed this week: Cincinnati Bengals- Current play in stadium of \u201cFanatic\u201d and \u201c59 Crunch\u201d, Washington Redskins- Playing in stadium, Tampa Bay Buccaneers- Playing in stadium , Notre Dame- BIG game against Miami in Chicago. They will play \u201cFanatic\u201d in stadium\u2026 may bleed onto TV. Minnesota Vikings- Planning a giveaway, and LOVE \u201c59 Crunch\u201d. Definitely playing in stadium\u2026 Oakland Raiders- have been playing \u201cFanatic\u201d since week 1. The UFC is looking at \u201c59 Crunch\u201d as a possibility for use during a UFC promotion. NASCAR loves the whole album. We have a big fan there. They may use a track or 2 during one of their TV shows. | <\/em>“Smiles of a Summer Night” is a Nancy ballad and can indeed be purchased via Cricket. | The download link for the vinyl album has been fixed! | A rumored 13 track vinyl at Best Buy is probably an import of the “Music on Vinyl” Dutch pressing.<\/p>\n Added October 11th 2012<\/strong>: “Fanatic” is heading for a 24\/25 debut with sales of 16.253<\/a> or 16.433.<\/p>\n Added October 4th 2o12<\/strong>: Check out all the reviews here<\/a>. Also: a new bonustrack seems to have surfaced: “Smiles of a Summer Night<\/a>“. Plus: with the vinyl, you get a downloadlink for the album in mp3. The projected sales at the moment for the first week are between 14 en 17k, which makes me afraid a top 10 entry may not be in the cards.<\/p>\n Added September 28th 2012<\/strong>: As long as Legacy Recordings keeps them online, you can hear the studio edit of “A Million Miles” right here<\/a> and “Corduroy Road” right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Added September 26th 2012<\/strong>: As long as Spinner keeps it online, you can hear the studio edit of “Rock Deep (Vancouver)” right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Added September 25th 2012<\/strong>: As long as Legacy Recordings keeps it online, you can hear the studio edit of “Skin and Bones” right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Added September 24th 2012<\/strong>: As long as Legacy Recordings keeps it online, you can hear the studio edit of “Pennsylvania” right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Added September 23rd 2012<\/strong>: As long as Legacy Recordings keeps them online, you can hear the studio edit of “59 Crunch” right here<\/a> and “Mashallah” right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zIoxpJtMe0E[\/youtube] Added September 20th 2012<\/strong>: Listen to all the “Fanatic” 30 second clips and the “Making of” here<\/a>.<\/p>\n [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q0yPy3ND4Uc[\/youtube]<\/p>\n The making of “Fanatic”<\/p>\n The Japanese edition has conflicting reports about its extra tracks: either two Led Zeppelin covers “Going to California” and “Misty Mountain Hop” (possibly from Zeppish) or the as yet unknown track “F30”. The Best Buy USA only version will have: “Beautiful Broken”, “Zingara” and the before unknown title “Two Silver Rings”.<\/p>\n Added August 22nd 2012<\/strong>: Best Buy will be selling Fanatic<\/a> with three exclusive tracks. International mongers: they don’t ship outside the US!<\/p>\n Added August 21st 2012<\/strong>: The “Fanatic” single has been released to AC Radio, Amazon<\/a> and iTunes<\/a> and AC radio single “Walkin’ Good” can now be found on YouTube:<\/p>\n [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3miTHCH1TQQ[\/youtube]<\/p>\n Added August 13th 2012<\/strong>: Qatar Tribune<\/a>: \u201cI spent a lot of time riding around on a tour bus the last couple of years with a notebook,\u201d Ann says, \u201cjust way out in the middle of the country where the poetry speaks really loud.\u201d Because of that, she says, \u201cIt\u2019s pretty rockheavy. It\u2019s got a lot of edge. It\u2019s a fiery bunch of words. There\u2019s anger, there\u2019s passion.\u201d Nancy agrees that \u201cthere was just this urge for us all to just rock,\u201d resulting in hard-driving songs such as the title track, Dear Old America, 59 Crunch, Mashallah and A Million Miles, a muscular adaptation of the folk standard 500 Miles.\u201cWe\u2019ve always been a little, well, fanatical, a little flippant about trying to satisfy our artistic urges,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s important that we don\u2019t just feel like we\u2019re out there and it\u2019s only the hits that are important. They are important, but having new material sets us apart from most of the boys \u2013 the old boys, especially.\u201d Fanatic has its softer moments too, most notably Walkin\u2019 Good, which features Sarah McLachlan and addresses the romantic renewal Nancy has felt in recent years. \u201cI knew that it definitely might have a lot of meaning to her too,\u201d Nancy says, \u201cbecause she\u2019d had something similar in her life, dealing with being a mom and being separated from a relationship and reconfiguring all of what that symbolises to a woman. So it was a really natural fit to ask her to come in and sing on it. She really liked the song. We were hoping she might sing a couple more songs, but we ran out of time.\u201d<\/p>\n Added August 10th 2012<\/strong>: RegisterGuard.com<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s just amazing some of the different techniques that were used to record this record, because it was recorded in lots of little different places \u2014 on a tour bus, in a parking lot, in a hotel room, actually in a studio, just everywhere,\u201d Ann Wilson said in an interview last week. \u201cEverybody\u2019s favorite thing would be just to have a comfortable life, get in your car and go to the studio in the afternoon and work until 8 p.m. or something and go home and sleep in your own bed,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cBut we really didn\u2019t have that luxury. \u201cWe had a tour going on and we were writing a book and we were writing songs. We realized real quick we had to do it however we could, wherever we could. \u201cAnd you know, as it turns out, I\u2019m really glad we did, because I think we caught something on \u2018Fanatic\u2019 that is quite a spark,\u201d she said. \u201cWe really did catch a spark. And we didn\u2019t sit in the studio and just over think and overthink and overthink. \u201cWe were on the move the whole time.\u201d [..] Then there are the songs. \u201cFanatic\u201d is one of Heart\u2019s hardest-rocking albums to date, and songs such as \u201cDear Old America,\u201d \u201c59 Crunch,\u201d \u201cMashallah\u201d and the title track are crisp, highly melodic and full of surprising and entertaining twists and turns. Check out the electronic tones that greet the listener on \u201cSkin and Bones<\/strong>\u201d and give the song a bit of a futuristic accent, or the techno-funk touches that flavor \u201cMillion Miles<\/strong>.\u201d It\u2019s no exaggeration to say the \u201cFanatic\u201d CD has sounds and textures that are different from anything Heart has done. \u201cHe (Mink) knows good and well what Heart used to sound like in the \u201970s and in the \u201980s and the \u201990s,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cBut he\u2019s a guy who is really dead set in the present. So he\u2019s going to pay respect to us and who we are, but he\u2019s always going to push us. \u201cAnd he really has a great sonic imagination and ability to come up with crazy ideas that really refer to us in an honest way. \u201cLike for instance, \u2018Million Miles<\/strong>,\u2019 it\u2019s a tip of the hat to a folk song, but it\u2019s definitely on steroids and it\u2019s a crazy dance idea that just goes out into space. \u201cA song like \u2018Skin and Bones,\u2019 we got a lot of it on an iPhone in a hotel room and then went from there with it.\u201d<\/p>\n Rock of Ages<\/a>: The 10-track album includes \u201cDear Old America,\u201d inspired by the Wilsons\u2019 father, a U.S. Marine captain who saw action in World War II and the Korean War. Post-traumatic stress disorder wasn\u2019t discussed then. It\u2019s a huge issue now. \u201dHe was really, really badly wounded,\u201d said Wilson, active in assisting Iraq and Afghanistan war vets. \u201cHe didn\u2019t talk about. It\u2019s not something you talked to women and children about. How to begin to tell what you\u2019ve heard and seen and come off as a strong dad?\u201d The new record also includes a collaboration with Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan (\u201cWalkin\u2019 Good\u201d) and a contemporized version of \u201c500 Miles\u201d (\u201cMillion Miles\u201d), a traditional American folk ballad<\/strong>. More from this interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n Added August 3rd 2012<\/strong>: From Heart’s Facebook<\/a>: Fanatic<\/em>: Between the book and the box set, the Wilson sisters had fully exorcized the past and now it was time to think about the future; they started writing songs that would become Fanatic. \u201cWe did it every possible way,\u201d Nancy remembers. \u201cWe had many nights together on the tour bus. Then, when I was in LA and Ann was in Seattle we were each emailing each other lyrics ideas and [producer] Ben Mink groove ideas.\u201d The threesome eventually congregated in the sister\u2019s hometown outside of Seattle and had a series of what Nancy calls songwriting \u201cpow wows.\u201d When it came time to record, the band\u2019s approach was organic, very much in keeping with their roots as true performance oriented rock band. \u201cThese days things are formulated digitally or layered or looped and assembled but this is live groove,\u201d Nancy explains. \u201cIt was our mission to go in there and capture the energy as it magically happens without too much over-thinking or repetition, just letting it escape.\u201d When you put the Wilson sisters plus some trusted musicians in a room with instructions to feel their way around, great things happen. \u201cYou do a take and you listen and you go that\u2019s so great, but that\u2019s not the one, and then you go and have a snack and keep going and suddenly it\u2019s like everybody\u2019s hair goes up and it\u2019s like: that\u2019s the one!\u201d Nancy says with glee. From the crackling guitar noise and vicious drumbeat that drives album opener and title track \u201cFanatic\u201d through the scorched-earth power of tracks like the \u201cMashallah\u201d Fanatic is definitely a full-bodied American rock and roll record. \u201cI place it really highly among the albums we\u2019ve made, right along side Little Queen or Dog & Butterfly,\u201d Nancy says. \u201cThose are two really heavy hitting albums and this one has that same spark.\u201d But the record\u2019s power is nuanced. \u201cMillion Miles,\u201d has delectably ominous prog rock undertones, the collaboration with Sarah McLachlan, \u201cWalkin\u2019 Good,\u201d has a sweet folky delicacy, and \u201cPennsylvania\u201d is a poetic painting of a ballad. Among the album\u2019s stand outs is also \u201cDear Old America,\u201d which blends Heart\u2019s signature rollicking rock and roll guitars with poignant lyrics about soldiers coming home from war, a topic close to both sisters\u2019 hearts since they were born and raised as Marine corps brats. As it should, the title track most succinctly encapsulates the spirit of Fanatic. \u201cI thought of Nancy who is so devoted to the idea of love and especially to the idea of romantic love,\u201d Ann recalls. \u201cShe will not take no for an answer. There is no way you could ever convince her that it\u2019s not real. She will not hear it. She\u2019s a true fanatic about love, and I thought how cool and inspiring is that? The meaning then grows to become a worldview.\u201d<\/p>\n Added July 28th 2012<\/strong>: alternative artwork for “Fanatic”, possibly the artwork for a single f the title track or promo artwork for the advance CD?<\/p>\n Added July 26th 2012:<\/strong> the studio version of “Walkin’ Good” can be found here<\/a>. And this is a live version of “59 Crunch” (Pittsburgh July 26th)<\/p>\n [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xPqUVx6Ezbc[\/youtube]<\/p>\n Added July 22nd 2012<\/strong>: Ann Wilson in The Miami Herald<\/a>: Fanatic once again sounds identifiably Heart, with Nancy\u2019s lead guitar carving a path for some of the Wilsons\u2019 most personal songs. Dear Old America is based on their military father and what he dealt with after World War II and the Korean War. \u201cI spent a lot of time writing prose like I used to do as a teenager,\u201d Wilson said. \u201c Dear Old America really came from trying to deal with my own daddy issues.\u201d Added July 17th 2012<\/strong>: watch the vid below past the 5 minute mark and hear part of “Walkin’ Good<\/strong>“!<\/p>\n [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pqdaFnzJppI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n Added July 15th 2012<\/strong>: two vids of Heart performing new songs<\/p>\n [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7oDCPpSZdag[\/youtube] [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YXs6wJzAf8I[\/youtube] Added July 10th 2012<\/strong>: Heart played two new songs for the first time in Hammond on July 6th: “Walkin’ Good”<\/strong> and “59 Crunch”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Added July 3rd 2012<\/strong>: Comparing the released track list with the earlier reported names of songs leaves us with the possible bonus tracks: “Zingara” and “Beautiful Broken”<\/p>\n Added June 29th 2012<\/strong>: The Wilsons say<\/a> they had fun making \u201cFanatic.\u201d \u201cOn this one, for some reason, we just needed to crank it, and it really worked,\u201d Nancy Wilson said. \u201cEvery time we record, it\u2019s different, but classically, Ann writes more on the side of the words but I also write a lot of the words, and I write more music on guitar and piano and stuff,\u201d she said. \u201cBut on this album, we\u2019re both doing both a lot more together, more equally than we\u2019ve done for a long time.\u201d Ann has some of Nancy\u2019s favorite moments lyrically on the new album, too. \u201cI\u2019m just really happy how the whole thing turned out, it\u2019s just such an incredible, heavy rock album,\u201d Nancy said.The new project celebrates the steamy, classic-rock guitar sounds of the \u201970s, she said. \u201cYou have other bands out there right now that are doing that, too, like Black Keys \u2014 they have such a good sound, those classic screaming guitar sounds,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n Guitarworld<\/a>: Nancy: But then they also wanted a new album, so we were like, “OK, we\u2019re right on that.” So when we were doing and writing the new album, we had this perspective going on and we sort of turned the new album into this heavy, heavy rock album, because going back seeing everything we had done, we\u2019ve done beautiful soft music, but we also are quite a rock band. It\u2019s just really cool how each of the projects cross-coordinated and cross-pollinated with the other. On your new album, Fanatic, you did a song with singer\/songwriter Sarah McLachlan. Is she a friend of yours? <\/em>Yes. We did Lilith Fair last year and she\u2019s friends with our producer Ben Mink, who\u2019s also a Canadian. I have song called “Walking Good” that Mink thought she\u2019d sound really good singing harmonies on. So he called her up and we talked it over, and she sounds incredible on that song. She\u2019s incredible. [..]I have a Gibson Thinline that I designed the body shape of, which I used a lot on the Fanatic<\/em> album that I\u2019m going to shake out.<\/p>\n Added June 28th 2012<\/strong>: Wilson calls<\/a> the album, “Fanatic,” “very heavy.” “When you look at it, it’s really folk music on super steroids. It’s probably our heaviest work so far.” They’ve been playing heavier in concert, and wanted to capture that feel on record. “It’s our most focused, and lyrically it doesn’t pussy-foot. It’s got opinions, it’s got love, it’s got romance.”<\/p>\n Added June 27th 2012: <\/strong>click here for a behind the scenes<\/a> on Heart’s “Fanatic” video shoot! And some insights on the album from management: “I’ve heard the entire record – and love it :) Walking Good and Pennsylvania are both ballads. Walking Good is an answer to Hey You. Its wonderful.” Added June 22nd 2012: <\/strong>On June 21st Heart revealed the art and tracks for “Fanatic” including the premier of 2 of the 10 tracks of the album on their website. Management confirmed again that 4 tracks are to be used as bonus tracks. The 10 tracks that are standard on the album are: “Fanatic,” “Dear Old America,” “Walkin’ Good” (featuring Sarah McLachlan), “Skin and Bones,” “Million Miles,” “Pennsylvania,” “Mashallah,” “Rock Deep (Vancouver),” “59 Crunch,” <\/strong>and “Corduroy Road.”<\/strong><\/p>\n [soundcloud url=”http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/2132382?secret_token=s-cPVwM” width=”100%” height=”300″ params=”show_artwork=true&secret_url=true” iframe=”true” \/] Added April 5th 2012<\/strong>: Nancy Wilson just tweeted: “The new album is almost done! Called Fanatic. So Rock!” Added February 26th 2012<\/strong>: Heart performed a song from “Fanatic” (a rocker) titled “Mashalla” in Anaheim, February 25th 2012.<\/p>\n [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5GdW4T7DrMA[\/youtube]<\/p>\n Added February 20th 2012<\/strong>: Nancy Wilson told KSBR 88.5FM that the new album will be released in October 2012 and is named “Fanatic” [fbshare type=”button” float=”right”]<\/p>\n [twitter style=”horizontal” float=”right”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heart released a new studio album “Fanatic” on October 2nd 2012. This page is keeping track! 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\nQuick links to: – Fanatic (studio)<\/a> – Dear Old America (studio)<\/a> – Walkin’ Good (studio)<\/a> – Skin and Bones (studio)<\/a> – A Million Miles (studio)<\/a> – Pennsylvania (studio)<\/a> – Mashallah! (studio)<\/a> – Rock Deep (Vancouver) (studio)<\/a> – 59 Crunch (studio)<\/a> – Corduroy Road (studio)<\/a><\/p>\nORDER “FANATIC” CD \/ VINYL<\/del> \/ iTUNES<\/a> | ORDER “KICKING & DREAMING<\/del>“<\/p>\n
\nFebruary 28th 2013<\/strong>: some new sales figures from a couple of months back. The last we had was Fanatic had dropped to number 82 in its second week on the US Billboard chart, with sales of 5.677, totaling 22.091. Now we can add these numbers: 3.029 in the third week to a total of 25.120 and 2.031 in the fourth week to a total of 27.151. Also Heart’s Jupiter’s Darling had 73,394 on 08\/2005, which was about a year after its release.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.heartlinker.nl\/wp-content\/DOAtop20.jpg\" "\\"DOAtop20\\"")
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\n“Fanatic” music video<\/strong> (added September 20th after premiering on Ultimate Classic Rock<\/a>)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.heartlinker.nl\/wp-content\/heartfanatic3lg.jpg\" "\\"heartfanatic3lg\\"")
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\nAnn Wilson in WNYpapers.com<\/a> “Our new album, ‘Fanatic,’ I think, is probably our most … we … try to light fires,” Ann says. “That’s what we do. We’re fire lighters. And I think we brought a spark on this one. That’s good. That’s what I was looking for is a true spark.” Like Foreigner and Huey Lewis & The News, two of Artpark’s other “Tuesday in the Park” headliners this summer, Heart has continued to release new music despite having more than enough hit songs to stage nightly “Best of” concerts. “It’s important for us to put out new music, because we don’t want to rest on our laurels,” Ann says. “I don’t see that there’s anything that exciting about laurel resting. Maybe I’ll get to the point in my life where I just go, ‘Oh my gosh, show me those laurels – I just want to rest on them!’ But I’m not there yet.” In all seriousness, the singer explains it this way: “If we’re going to go out and ask people to come out of their homes and spend their non-existent money to come see us, I’d say we better be awake and alive, and we better have something … new to show them. “I just feel, conscientiously, that we should be (an) awake, alive, evolving band, or we should get out of the game.”
\nImages have appeared<\/a> of a possible first single “Walkin’ Good”<\/p>\n
\n“Fanatic” from St. Louis, July 4th 2012<\/p>\n
\n“Dear Old America” from St. Louis, July 4th 2012<\/p>\n
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\nAdded June 25th 2012: <\/strong>Amazon.com has set up pre-order links for Heart\u2019s new album \u201cFanatic\u201d and the big news is that the new album will also get a release on VINYL<\/strong>! This has been confirmed by management! PRE-ORDER CD<\/a> | PRE-ORDER VINYL<\/a>. Amazon tracklist: 1. Fanatic 2. Dear Old America 3. Walkin\u2019 Good (featuring Sarah McLachlan) 4. Skin And Bones 5. Million Miles 6. Pennsylvania 7. Mashalla 8. Rock Deep (Vancouver) 9. 59 Crunch 10. Corduroy Road. Heart\u2019s 14th studio album, Fanatic, ranks as one of the Wilson Sisters most rock & roll albums to date. With Grammy-winning producer Ben Mink at the helm (who also produced their last album, Red Velvet Car), these ten essential performances by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson are a celebration of their life spirit: Ann and Nancy are fanatics about love, art and truth. Includes the title track \u201cFanatic,\u201d \u201cDear Old America,\u201d and \u201cMillion Miles.\u201d.
\nI do still wonder how to correctly spell “Mashalla” the way Heart wants it.<\/em><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>“Dear Old America” comes from memories of a military household and is written from the point of view of their father, a Marine Corps officer, returning from war (“When I get home, I’m going to own this town\/Shine this medal\/Wear that crown\u2026.”); “Rock Deep (Vancouver)” harkens back to the city where Dreamboat Annie was written; and “Walkin’ Good” (a duet with Vancouver resident Sarah McLachlan) captures the joy of finding new life in a new love.
\nAdded June 7th 2012: <\/strong>Billboard.com: Heart will bring fans up to date this fall, when the duo releases “Fanatic,” its 13th studio album and the follow-up to 2010’s “Red Velvet Car.” Like that set, “Fanatic” was produced by Ben Mink and recorded in Los Angeles and Seattle, with Sarah McLachlan guesting on a track called “Walking Good<\/strong>.” Wilson expects 10 songs to make the final cut from 20 that were recorded and says “Fanatic” is “pretty rock heavy. There are only two ballads on it. It’s got a lot of edge. I spent a lot of time riding around on a tour bus the last couple of years, just way out in the middle of the country where the poetry speaks really loud. I had a notebook. I wrote a song about Pennsylvania. There’s one about Vancouver. It’s a fiery bunch of words. There’s anger. There’s passion. That’s why it’s called ‘Fanatic,’ because it’s love fanatic.” Wilson says the additional songs recorded for the album will be used as bonus tracks for various editions of “Fanatic.”
\nAdded Jun 1st 2012: <\/strong>management: “there are four bonus tracks for Fanatic. I’m not sure which are going where… still too early to know.”
\nAdded May 27th 2012: <\/strong>The title track of the new album can be heard in part 3 of this radioshow<\/a>. (Thanx to Seattleboy!)
\nAdded May 24th 2012<\/strong>: Ann Wilson: \u201cWell, \u2018Fanatic\u2019 is way more rock-heavy then Red Velvet Car was. It\u2019s got 10 songs on it and I think two of them are what you\u2019d call ballads. It\u2019s quite, it\u2019s a lot heavier. You\u2019re just going to have to judge for yourself. It\u2019s going to be released on October 2. I\u2019m real excited about it.\u201d “We don\u2019t take a side, like, you know, Democrat or Republican, in our songs, but we definitely have opinions. And on the new album, there\u2019s a song called \u201cDear Old America<\/strong>,\u201d which is from the perspective of a soldier in, you know, like in Afghanistan or Iraq and what it\u2019s like to be them and what goes through their mind, and coming back to America after they go through that and see that. We definitely can relate to the modern day world and have opinions. We\u2019re not going to just shut up because we\u2019re in music and don\u2019t want to offend. I think musicians should be participants.\u201d (Thanx to The Heartmonger Blog<\/a>)
\nAdded April 7th 2012<\/strong>: Sue Ennis just tweeted: “10 songs mixed for Fanatic. On to the bonus tracks! Big. Loud. Fun.<\/em>”
\nAdded April 6th 2012<\/strong>: Nancy wilson just tweeted with a photo: “Listening to new album playback. Fanatic!<\/em>”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.heartlinker.nl\/wp-content\/nancystudio.jpg\" "\\"nancystudio\\"")
\n<\/em>Added April 4th 2012<\/strong>: management on the official BBS in reply to the question “why Fanatic?”: “cause its a subject and song title. oooooh SCOOP! song named Fanatic<\/strong> on the record!<\/em>”
\nAdded April 3rd 2012: <\/strong>Sue Ennis on Twitter<\/a>: “My pal played me 6 rough mixes from the new album, now in the mixing process in Seattle. HUGE sound. The philosophy is simple: rawk!” and<\/a>: “As shaping and polishing continues, FANATIC keeps getting more amazing. New revelation every day. Today’s: Ben Smith is a monster hurricane.”
\n<\/em>Added April 2nd 2012: <\/strong>The publicly accessible ASCAP database<\/a> -that lists the composers of songs- has added a couple of titles to their database. So a new bunch of unconfirmed<\/strong> song titles for “Fanatic” are: 59 Crunch <\/strong>(confirmed song title), A Million Miles<\/strong> (confirmed song title, without the A), Beautiful Broken, Corduroy Road <\/strong>(confirmed song title), Dear Old America <\/strong>(confirmed song title), Fanatic <\/strong>(confirmed song title), Mashallah <\/strong>(confirmed song title, possibly without the second “h”), Pennsylvania<\/strong> (confirmed song title) and Zingara<\/strong>.
\nAdded April 2nd 2012: Ben Mink on his website on February 29th: “I\u2019m currently mixing Heart\u2019s<\/a> new album, due for late fall release”
\n<\/em>Added March 15th 2012: The new album will be released on October 2nd 2012.
\nAdded March 6th 2012: management: record company Sony, releasedate hasn’t been announced at this time.
\nAdded February 28th 2012: A print magazine article (Classic Rock Magazine) surfaced with 4 more song titles! We now have: Mashalla, Fanatic, Dear Old America, Skin and Bones and Beautiful Broken.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.heartlinker.nl\/wp-content\/classicrockheartfanatic.jpg\" "\\"classicrockheartfanatic\\"")
\nAdded January 25th 2011<\/strong>: Management: “today is the last day of recording… and then the girls will be working with the author to finish the book.”
\n<\/em>Added January 19th 2012<\/strong>: Management: “Nope – the ladies are recording<\/em>” (an answer on the question if A&N will be at NAMM this weekend)
\nAdded November 18th 2011<\/strong>: Management: “They haven’t started recording yet<\/em>”
\nAdded August 29th 2011<\/strong>: DeseretNews.com: <\/strong>During a recent break in their tour, Ann Wilson told the Deseret News during an interview from Chicago that she and her sister are already in the process of writing their next album, which she says will be a much heavier record than Red Velvet Car. Like all of Heart’s music, the songs on the new album, Wilson said, come from her and her sister’s observations of what’s going on around them. “There’s a song on the album coming up about the way it feels right now to be in this economy,” Wilson said. In what she called a “very poetic” song, Wilson said the song looks at how someone can stand in the middle of a street, close their eyes and feel what the town was like at its peak, and then open their eyes to see what was happening today.
\n<\/em>Added September 10th 2011<\/strong>: Heart management on the official bulletin board: “i wouldn’t count on the spring…but a new album is being recorded this year<\/em>“, meaning a Spring release is not likely.
\nAdded September 20th 2011<\/strong>: Nancy Wilson on Salt Lake Tribune.com: \u201cOur new stuff, we\u2019re writing heavy electric,\u201d Nancy Wilson said. \u201c\u2009\u2018Red Velvet Car\u2019 was heavier acoustic. \u2026 [Recording albums] helps us to stay vital. It\u2019s less and less lucrative, and more for the love. There is a groundswell of fan appreciation for what is real.<\/em>\u201d
\nAdded August 23rd 2011<\/strong>: The Mountain, Nancy Wilson: We are writing songs and making demos. Here and there we get together, in all kinds of various locations with our speakers and laptops and guitars and microphones and just pound them out. Ann and I are doing as much writing together as we can, on the tour bus, between show days we are just putting new songs together as fast as we can. We are really excited to keep working, it makes us feel relevant to keep doing new material all the time.
\n<\/em>Added August 18th 2011<\/strong>: CantonRep.Com, Nancy Wilson: We\u2019re working with the same producer, Ben Mink, on a new album that we\u2019re going to, hopefully, get finished before Christmas. We\u2019re approaching it more like a rock \u2018n\u2019 roll album than an acoustic one. We\u2019re excited and energized<\/em>.
\nAdded August 13th 2011<\/strong>: Billboard.com: \u201dWe\u2019ve got most of it written already,\u201d Wilson says. \u201cWe\u2019re writing again and working on songs with (\u2018Red Velvet Car\u2019) producer Ben Mink. This time we\u2019re gonna go a little more heavy rock, a little more electric guitar. And so far so good; I think there\u2019s some really amazing songs already.\u201d Wilson says the sisters and Mink have demoed \u201cabout eight songs already,\u201d working \u201cin various hotel rooms\u2026with microphones and his laptop and a couple of speakers and some guitars and notebooks. Me and Ann work on stuff independently of each other and we bring our notebooks, and (Mink) brings musical ideas, too, and we write together and just put everything together.\u201d Heart \u2014 which this year celebrates the 35th anniversary of its debut album, \u201cDreamboat Annie\u201d \u2014 hasn\u2019t previewed any of the new songs yet during its summer tour with Def Leppard, but Wilson expects to play something new before the trek wraps Oct. 29 in Australia. \u201cIt\u2019s not unlikely that we would probably road test something in the course of the summer,\u201d she predicts. \u201cWe\u2019re still kind of polishing and buffing the rough demos so far, but we\u2019re getting excited.\u201d Heart expects to hit the studio \u201cas soon as the tour is done\u2026and hopefully we can have everything recorded by Christmas.\u201d
\n<\/em>Added July 24th 2011<\/strong>: Ultimate Classic Rock: Ann Wilson: Yeah, we are, we\u2019re writing now and this break in the Def Leppard tour, though it was a surprise break, it turned out to be really good, because we got our producer down here and we sat and worked and just wrote for five days. It was incredible, [we] came up with a whole bunch of stuff, so we\u2019re on it! […] It\u2019s more developed [and] it\u2019s more rock I think, this time. You know, we\u2019ve been traveling constantly and all kinds of things have happened, good and bad. We\u2019re always writers, but right now, there\u2019s really a lot of stuff that\u2019s going down on paper from our experience here, just out in the country. There\u2019s one song that just was banging around inside my head after we were in Pennsylvania. And I\u2019ve never seen the Northeast quite so beat down, quite so poor and broke. The Rust Belt speaks really loudly about what\u2019s going on in the economy. When we went on the break, like everyone flew home, but I said, \u201cNo, I\u2019m going to take my bus and I\u2019m just going to go back across the country to L.A. And I\u2019m going to write on the trip.\u201d I didn\u2019t know how haunted by the economic situation back east and how it affects the people. I wrote all of this stuff on the trip back when we were going through Nebraska, going down through New Mexico and stuff, the big empty out there, it just spoke really loudly to me. So, there\u2019s a bunch of stuff, my observations of what it\u2019s like in the country right now.
\n<\/em><\/em>Added July 22nd 2011<\/strong>: TheWest.Com.Au: Wilson says the band, which will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year, is currently working on another rock opus with Mink.
\n<\/em>Added July 13th 2011<\/strong>: UrbanTulsa.com: In fact, the experience and response has been so strong that Wilson said that she and sister Nancy (Wilson, guitarist and songwriter) are already planning to make another record in the same manner.
\n<\/em>Added July 4th 2011<\/strong>: Nancy was interview for TapMilwaukee by Piet Levy: The band plans to plug in for a harder-rocking album next June.
\n<\/em>Added June 15th 2011<\/strong>: Nancy was interviewed was WMGK.com: She said Heart has probably one more writingsession to go. Recording after the summertour in November\/December & out in the Spring or Summer of 2012.
\n<\/em>Added May 25th 2011<\/strong>: Ann & Nancy mention their plans to make a new album on Rockline on May 25th.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.heartlinker.nl\/wp-content\/music2-1.jpg\" "\\"music2-1\\"")