Stevie Nicks - The Wild Heart
There is a singer songwriter named Beth Hart. I met her a few years ago at an music function. She heard my band. She loved us. Blah blah. She was also a favorite of my wife’s who had her song “L.A. Song” on repeat before she moved here. Beth (Hart) was a star search contestant and told us that she had been met with pushback by record labels because of the incessant vibrato in her singing. And I’ve always wondered…did any of those record execs ever listen to Fleetwood Mac? Cuz…Stevie Nicks is all vibrato. And oddly nasal.
Anyway. This is her second solo album. It’s kind of boring. Kind of ok. It’s very pub rock. It dances close to the edge of country but I think a lot of California 70s sounding rock is where country and rock meet.
Those are a lot words to say that this is a sub-par Mac-less Fleetwood-esque album. The single, “Nightbird” is such a redux of “Dreams” that the author of that song should sue.
And I would love to live in a world where Stevie Nicks sues herself for plagiarism.
Also, synthesizers. The 80s are all about synthesizers. I forgot just how much.
This is the sound of too much money + studio time. Dull.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-wild-heart-remastered/1168959050
