“It’s beautiful serendipity that it’s coming out for Mother’s Day,” she shares. “I had a dream about my mom. If you have a dream with your mom in it, you wake up and you feel like, ‘Oh, that was great. I got to hang out with mom.’ I thought it would be cool to have a conversation, like in zero gravity where you’re just communicating without actual words spoken, but just through your common DNA in a certain way. Because they are part of you and you are part of them. I wrote this poem about it called You and Me and Gravity after the dream.” Wilson’s album is a beautiful amalgam of a musical life well lived. With a few covers and eight original tracks, including an instrumental tribute to Eddie Van Halen called “4 Edward,” the album explores love, energy and existence interpreted by a musical master. Here Wilson introduces and shares the title track: Wilson brought her poem about her mom to collaborator Sue Ennis, and the two of them created the song. “Sue had this beautiful piece of music and a melody to go with it, and I thought, well, why don’t we combine our two mother songs? I thought maybe we could do a hybrid of our two poems basically. So she did the homework of combining the two and I think the way it turned out made it even more universal. It’s the spirit of the mom in your life who gave you so much and taught you so much and protected you so much.” Listen to our entire interview with Wilson here: https://she-rocks-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/nancy-wilson-heart Many of the tracks on the new album are originals, but Wilson decided to include a handful of covers by a few of her favorites, including a female perspective of Pearl Jam’s “Daughter,” a stirring turn of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” featuring Sammy Hagar, and an ethereal cover of the Cranberries’ “Dreams,” featuring Liv Warfield (Prince) from Wilson’s previous band Roadcase Royale. The first single from the album was Bruce Springsteen’s “The Rising,” which debuted last fall. “During this horrific time in the world, with all this enduring loss, it seemed like the right time for an aspirational song about hope and perseverance,” Wilson says. With Heart, Wilson has recorded 16 albums, sold over 35 million albums worldwide, has four Grammy nominations, been honored with the ASCAP Founders Award and was celebrated with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She had previously released one other album with just her name on it, Live at McCabe’s Guitar Shop, which captured her playing a set of covers and new songs in 1999. But Wilson considers this her first true solo album, a positive creative move amid a surreal year of loss; life during lock down. Find out more at https://www.facebook.com/officialnancywilson Next, do people who are tone-deaf hear music differently?
