There are plenty of rock singers still going in their seventies, but only a few who can still hit the notes as they did in their youth. Among that rare breed are Sammy Hagar, now 74, who sounded great on his 2021 tour with The Circle; Klaus Meine, 73, who rolls back the years on the new Scorpions album Rock Believer; and Ann Wilson, a mere 71, whose voice still has all the power and beauty that lit up every classic Heart song in the 70s and 80s, from hard rock ball-breaker Barracuda to supreme power ballad Alone.
Fierce Bliss is her third solo album, and by some distance the best of them. The previous two, 2007’s Hope & Glory and 2018’s were covers albums, with only one original Wilson composition amid an eclectic mix of songs ranging from Pink Floyd’s to Gerry Rafferty’s – some of it well-judged, some less so. But with the core of the album is original material, proof that the co-author of so many of Heart’s greatest songs still has the writing chops to go with that one-ina-million voice.
