Heart - Private Audition • CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

Private Audition is a concept album whose cuts represent various performers singing their stuff for a decidedly phlegmatic casting director. But the concept is essentially a conceit whereby vocalist Ann Wilson can shuck the Robert Plant-sounda-like tag that's dogged her since Dreamboat Annie. This foray into uncharted musical waters by Ann and the band yields its share of mistakes. On the whole, though, the successes outweigh the embarrassments, making Private Audition Heart's bravest LP to date.

Take the title cut, a honky-tonk-piano-meets-cutie-pie ditty. At first it seems more appropriate for Bernadette Peters, but Wilson's surprisingly light vocal touch registers
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