With Heart only intermittently active in the early 21st century, Ann Wilson took the opportunity to release her first-ever solo album, something her sister Nancy Wilson, Heart's other half, took care of back in 1999. But where Nancy's solo debut was a live, acoustic effort comprised of both original material and covers, Ann has gone the nearly-all-covers route for the Ben Mink-produced Hope & Glory; only one song, the album-closing "Little Problems, Little Lies," comes from {$Wil...   [ read more ]

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British reissue label Sepia Records, which specializes in assembling albums of unlicensed recordings that have recently entered the public domain in Europe (where copyright extends for only 50 years), coyly entitles this collection of early-'50s tracks Julie Wilson in London...with Friends, even though it consists largely of performances by various cast members of musicals that played in the West End. Wilson was a member of those casts, but she appears on fewer than half of the selections. In t...   [ read more ]

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