Heart Dreamboat Annie (1st LP) CD

Personnel: Ann Wilson (vocals, flute); Nancy Wilson (6-, 12-string acoustic guitars, electric guitar, background vocals); Roger Fisher (acoustic, electric & lap steel guitars); Howard Leese (guitar, synthesizer, bells); "Before Dawn" Geoff Foubert (banjo, background vocals); Rob Deans (piano, synthesizer); Steve Fossen, Brian Newcombe (bass); Dave Wilson, Kat Hendrikse, Mike Derosier, Duris Maxwell (drums); Ray Ayotte, Mike Flicker (percussion); Tessie Bensussen, Jim Hill (background vocals).
Recorded at Can-Base Studios, Vancouver, Canada.
Personnel: Ann Wilson (vocals, flute), Nancy Wilson (6- & 12-string acoustic guitars, electric guitar, background vocals), Roger Fisher (acoustic, electric & lap steel guitars), Howard Leese (guitar, synthesizer, bells), "Before Dawn" Geoff Foubert (banjo, background vocals), Rob Deans (piano, synthesizer), Steve Fossen, Brian Newcombe (bass), Dave Wilson, Kat Hendrikse, Mike Derosier, Duris Maxwell (drums), Ray Ayotte, Mike Flicker (percussion), Tessie Bensussen, Jim Hill (background vocals).
Recorded at Can-Base Studios, Vancouver, Canada.
All songs written or co-written by Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson.
This is a limited edition "Album Replica" CD of DREAMBOAT ANNIE specially packaged to simulate the original LP design with gatefold sleeve.
Personnel: Ann Wilson (vocals, acoustic guitar, flute); Nancy Wilson (6- & 12-string acoustic guitars, electric guitar, background vocals); Roger Fisher (acoustic, electric & lap steel guitars); Howard Leese (acoustic & electric guitars, synthesizer, bells, background vocals); Geoff Foubert (banjo, background vocals); Rob Deans (piano, synthesizer); Steve Fossen, Brian Newcombe (bass); Dave Wilson, Kat Hendrikse, Mike Derosier, Duris Maxwell (drums); Mike Flicker (timpani); Ray Ayotte (congas, percussion); Tessie Bensussen, Jim Hill (background vocals).
Recorded at Can-Base Studios, Vancouver, Canada.
In the 1980s and '90s, numerous women recorded blistering rock, but things were quite different in 1976 -- when female singers tended to be pigeonholed as soft rockers and singer/songwriters and were encouraged to take after Carly Simon, Melissa Manchester, or Joni Mitchell rather than Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath. Greatly influenced by Zep, Heart did its part to help open doors for ladies of loudness with the excellent Dreamboat Annie (reissued on a gold audiophile CD by DCC Compact Classics in 1995). Aggressive yet melodic rockers like "Sing Child," "White Lightning & Wine," and the rock radio staples "Magic Man" and "Crazy on You" led to the tag "the female Led Zeppelin." And in fact, Robert Plant did have a strong influence on Ann Wilson. But those numbers and caressing, folk-ish ballads like "How Deep It Goes" and the title song also make it clear that the Nancy and Ann Wilson had their own identity and vision early on. ~ Alex Henderson
Heart's 1976 album, DREAMBOAT ANNIE, is easily one of the '70s best rock debuts. Led by two sisters, singer Ann and guitarist Nancy Wilson, who combined the mystical folk of Joni Mitchell with the heavy metal stomp of Led Zeppelin, the album spawned several hits that have become classic rock radio staples over the years.
Both "Magic Man" and "Crazy on You" are red hot rockers (the former is an autobiographical tale from Ann), while the title track is more subdued. DREAMBOAT ANNIE showed the largely male-dominated '70s rock world that the Wilson sisters could rock every bit as hard as their macho peers.