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Legendary vocalist
Ann Wilson has once again denied rumors of a rift with her sister and
HEART bandmate
Nancy. In a new interview in the 300th issue of
Classic Rock,
Ann said that she is "not" feuding with her younger sister. "It's a myth," she insisted. "
Nancy and I are okay with each other. We just have different ideas for what
HEART should be, and we haven’t figured out a compromise yet.
"Fifty years on, I still want it to break barriers and rules, and she's more satisfied to ride the L.A. imaging thing and just do legacy stuff,"
Ann explained. "So that's a real split between us. Things like this will happen, though, but then they'll get better, and we'll love each other more."
Relations between the two sisters were considered to be at an all-time low after a much-publicized incident when
Ann's husband was arrested during a
HEART tour in 2016. But in a recent interview with
Rock Candy magazine to coincide with the release of her new solo album,
"Fierce Bliss",
Ann said: "Things happen in families. And that was a really good example of something that happened within a family, and we worked it out. But the part that made it hard was that it happened in the public eye. If it had happened privately, we'd have got the family in a room and sat down and worked it out between us. Instead, the police were called, and this myth was born that
Nancy and I were feuding, and we were at each other's throats all the time. And it's really not like that at all."
A proposed
HEART tour fell through last year after the two sisters failed to agree on which backing band to use.
Ann wanted her guys,
Nancy didn't. But
Ann now says that another
HEART album, which would be the band's first since 2016's
"Beautiful Broken", is a definite possibility, especially considering the fact that 2023 marks
HEART's 50th anniversary.
"It depends on the songs," she said in her
Rock Candy interview. "The songs lead everything. And I'm writing songs again now. I don't know if they'll be for my solo thing or for
HEART. But yes, I would like to make another
HEART album."
Last month,
Ann told
Liz Barnes of
Planet Rock's
"My Planet Rocks" that there are plans for
HEART to return to activity once she completes the touring cycle for
"Fierce Bliss". "Because next year's the 50-year [anniversary] of when we actually got together and got going.
Nancy didn't join until '75, but the band got going in '73," she said. "So, yeah, we have a bunch of stuff planned for next year. So I can definitely see
HEART doing something."
Ann's comments came a month after
Nancy Wilson spoke to
Joe Rock of Long Island, New York's
102.3 WBAB radio station about why
HEART has been inactive for most of the past three years.
"
HEART had a big offer on the table last year for a bigger tour, but
Ann wasn't interested in going out with my lineup of guys that we were out with before," she said. "She has a new lineup of guys that she wanted me to join up with. And I sort of [thought] I don't really know them and don't have loyalty yet for anybody like that."
HEART toured North America in the summer of 2019 after the aforementioned nasty split that kept the
Wilson sisters estranged for three years.
Ann and
Nancy had a falling out during
HEART's 2016 tour, when
Ann's husband
Dean Welter was arrested for assaulting
Nancy's then-16-year-old twin sons in a backstage altercation at a gig near their hometown of Seattle. He pleaded guilty to two lesser assault charges to avoid jail time.
After completing
HEART's 2016 tour,
Nancy formed a new band called
ROADCASE ROYALE and released an album,
"First Things First".
ROADCASE ROYALE featured three members of
HEART along with
Liv Warfield from
Prince's
NEW POWER GENERATION band and her guitarist
Ryan Wilson.
In
Nancy's new band
NANCY WILSON'S HEART, she is joined in the group by her longtime collaborators, guitarist
Ryan Waters, drummer
Ben Smith, bassist
Andy Stoller and keyboardist
Dan Walker, along with powerhouse singer
Kimberly Nichole.
Nancy's debut solo album,
"You And Me", was released last May via
Carry On Music. The LP was recorded primarily in her California home studio, working with bandmembers and special guests remotely.
"Fierce Bliss" will arrive on April 29 via
Silver Lining Music.