![]() ![]() Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. The title track "You And Me", as with several of the songs on the album, reunites Wilson with longtime collaborator Sue Ennis, who co-wrote many of HEART's classics with Nancy and sister Ann.īLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. Titled "4 Edward", it is Nancy's tribute to Eddie Van Halen, whose 2020 loss still looms large over music. The album ends with a song that captures the full spectrum of loss, love and redemption in one instrumental coda. The other eight tracks are originals, mostly acoustic ballads, but there are also some rousing rockers like "Party At The Angel Ballroom" which features a superstar backing band, including Duff McKagan of GUNS N' ROSES and Taylor Hawkins of the FOO FIGHTERS. Most of the tracks 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 Warfield. ![]() The LP was recorded primarily in Wilson's California home studio, working with band members and special guests remotely. "You And Me" will be released on May 7 via Carry On Music. So I just figured out how to finish it on my own, and it finally found its home." I think he just didn't wanna be part of it because it was too painful for him - 'cause Layne was his brother mainly. This song needs another part.' And I played it for him a couple of different times in a few different situations. "I shared it with Jerry Cantrell, who's a great friend of mine, and I said, 'I still wanna finish the song. So that's why I wrote the song at the time when he was still around I wrote it then."Īccording to Nancy, Layne never got a chance to hear the song before his passing. And it took a long, long time, but it was really obvious that he was not going to win that contest. And Layne Staley was one sweetheart of a person who you could really see his weakness for his addiction and how much it appeared, from a distance, that he was not gonna survive it. Even Chris Cornell later, as it turned out, he had his own issues later on. It was a very interesting situation in the early '90s in Seattle, because there were a lot of those guys around that time which were all battling with their own addictions. It's finally in a good home that song found its home."Īsked if she saw Layne's death coming before he succumbed to addiction in 2002, Nancy said: "Yeah. I said, 'I'm happy to do that song on my solo album too.' It's just a song that finally found its place to live. And the guy from the record company at the time, when I was doing this new album, he said, 'Would you please put 'The Dragon' on this album?' because he loved the version that we did with ROADCASE ROYALE. And it was really a great song, and I thought it finally found a good home on that album. The album was called 'First Things First'. So later when I was on hiatus from HEART for a couple of years and I made my other band called ROADCASE ROYALE, we were recording an album and we put 'The Dragon' on that album. It was a song that never really worked inside of the HEART format - it just didn't live as a HEART song it just didn't really work for HEART for some unknown reason. She told Holland's FaceCulture about the track (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I wrote that song so long ago, in the early '90s, when I was friends - I still am friends - with ALICE IN CHAINS guys and all the Seattle explosion, all of my buddies in Seattle. "You And Me", the debut solo album from HEART's Nancy Wilson, includes the song "The Dragon", which was originally written for ALICE IN CHAINS' Layne Staley nearly three decades ago.
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