By: Holly Gleason
Nancy Wilson sfirst solo album, You and Me, drops May 7.
As a college girl, Nancy Wilson was drawn to the duality of rocking hard and the bucolic folk of Fairport Convention. Raised on the move, the seeming incongruities intrigued instead of repelled the lithe blonde; those incongruities would define Heart, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees who share Led Zeppelin’s same blues/rock/Joni Mitchell acoustic framing.
That acoustic guitar-filigreed, authoritative power-downstroke and sheer joy of playing marked Dreamboat Annie, Little Queen, Bébé le Strange, Dog & Butterfly and so many of Heart’s albums. It’s all over You and Me, Nancy Wilson’s first solo album. The downy voice that launched “These Dreams,” the band’s first No. 1 single, remains as soft and dusky as ever. Wilson’s positivity explores songs written with longtime friend/Heart collaborator Sue Ennis, plus an uplifting take on Springsteen