10 albums 10 days, day 4: Permanent Waves, Rush

This is another choice where I really have no need to add to words I’ve already written — here, here, here and probably a few other places as well.

Instead, I’ll focus on my chosen female counter-weight to Rush — Heart, or the Wilson sisters.

"For Ann and me, it was always more about imitating guys, like Zeppelin and the Stones."

I still dig 70s-era Heart, with its 70s-era epic trippiness (or trippy epicness). Those sisters outright rocked. And they were Canadian!

Technically, they were Canadian only for a moment. But what a moment — their launching-point, basically. Mid-70s, patchouli-drenched Vancouver. Two girls delivering harder rock than most Canadian fellas at that time (I mean, The Guess Who were fun and all. But “hard rock”? Nah!).

Additional, highly recommended, words: over at The Believer Maura Kelly conducts a fabulous interview with Nancy Wilson.

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