Heart – ‘Dreamboat Annie’ [Retro Album Review]
Oh sure, there was the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, Cream, Zeppelin, Jimi and Janis — the elite golden gods of the glorious first wave of album rock crashing across the shore during the mid to late ‘60s. But, while certainly iconic, for those of us coming of age during the early to mid-‘70s, those artists belonged to our older siblings — we were simply borrowing them. Alice Cooper, Bad Company, Aerosmith, Queen, Elton John, David Bowie and Peter Frampton — that music belonged to us — outright. Of that equally vital second wave, one of the boldest and brightest bands was the Seattle-birthed brigade, Heart. Although the band’s landmark debut, Dreamboat Annie, dropped in Canada via Mushroom Records in late ‘75, the spectacular 10-song set didn’t truly catch fire until it arrived in the State...
