The Road Home (Heart album) explained

The Road Home, a live album released in 1995, is the fourteenth album overall by the rock group Heart. It chronicles a club performance in the "unplugged" style in their home city of Seattle. The setlist contains acoustic versions of many of the band's hits including "Dreamboat Annie", "Alone", "Barracuda".

The album was produced by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, a band to whom Ann and Nancy Wilson paid tribute with their band the Lovemongers. "He was a prince among men," enthused Ann.^[1] The cover photograph shows an old picture of a young Ann and Nancy Wilson with a candle.

The album reached number eighty-seven on the U.S. Billboard 200.

In 1995, a VHS was released under the same name and with the same cover containing another concert from the same tour. The video was reissued on DVD in 2003.

VHS track listing

0. unlisted introduction interview with Ann & Nancy Wilson
1. "River"
2. "Dog and Butterfly"
3. "(Up on) Cherry Blossom Road"
4. "Back to Avalon"
5. "Alone"
6. "These Dreams"
7. "Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child)"
8. "Seasons"
9. "Dream of the Archer"
10. "Love Alive"
11. "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You"
12. "Straight On"
13. "Mistral Wind" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis, Fisher)
14. "Barracuda"
15. "Love Hurts"
16. "Crazy on You"
17. "The Road Home"

DVD bonus material

18. The Road Home – electronic press kit
19. "Crazy on You" – live from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
20. "The Road Home" – live from Later with Greg Kinnear

Personnel

• Ann Wilson – lead vocals, guitars, autoharp, flute
• Nancy Wilson – vocals, guitars, mandolin
• Howard Leese – guitars, mandolin, keyboards, accordion, background vocals
• John Paul Jones – piano, bass, mandolin, producer (only on CD concert)
• Fernando Saunders – bass, background vocals
• Denny Fongheiser – drums, percussion
• Gary Gersh – percussion, executive producer
• Kristen Barry – background vocals
• Seattle Symphony string section (CD):
  • Gennady Filimonov, Leonid Keylin – violins
  • Vincent Comer – viola
  • David Tonkongui – cello
  • John DeJarnatt – oboe, English horn
• London Metropolitan String Quartet on track 12 and DVD:
  • Rosemary Furniss, David Ogden – violins
  • Andrew Brown – viola
  • Caroline Dale – cello
  • John Anderson – oboe
  • Roger Bolton – conductor

Charts

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Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[2]	20

Notes and References

1. Charles. Cross. Charles R. Cross. The home stretch. Classic Rock. July 2018. 250. 66.
2. Book: Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005. Oricon Entertainment. Roppongi, Tokyo. 2006. 4-87131-077-9. ja.