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Dog and Butterfly (album)

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Released
  
October 7, 1978

Dog & Butterfly (1978)
  
Bebe le Strange (1980)

Release date
  
7 October 1978

Genres
  
Hard rock, Folk rock

Length
  
39:43

Artist
  
Heart

Label
  
Portrait Records

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Recorded
  
Sea-West Studios, Seattle, Washington, Capitol Studios, Hollywood, California (strings), 1978

Producer
  
Mike Flicker, Heart & Michael Fisher

Similar
  
Heart albums, Other albums

Dog & Butterfly is the fourth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on October 7, 1978 through Portrait Records. Heart rebounded from their legal dispute with Mushroom Records over the release of the platinum-selling Magazine in April 1978, as Dog & Butterfly was certified double platinum, spent 36 weeks on the charts, and peaked at No. 17 on the US Billboard 200. The album was the 'proper' successor to 1977's hit Little Queen in terms of musical development and direction, and contained two hit singles: "Straight On", and "Dog & Butterfly".

Contents

As Heart themselves noted on the album's release, side 1 was the "Dog" side, and was the more "rocking" compared to the "Butterfly" side 2, which was all ballads, with the exception of the closer "Mistral Wind", which, in many ways, epitomized the trademark sound for which Heart would be remembered: folksy ballads shifting into searing hard rock explosions.

Though the first song, "Cook with Fire", sounds like a live recording, the liner notes to the 2004 CD say that it was actually recorded at Sea-West Studios along with the rest of the album. Audience sounds from a live performance were overdubbed on the studio recording.

The album was reissued in a remastered edition in 2004 by Epic/Legacy and included three bonus tracks from this period. The song "Feels" was later reworked and became "Johnny Moon", included in the album Passionworks (1983).

Track listing

All tracks written by Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Sue Ennis, except where indicated.

Heart

  • Ann Wilson – lead and backing vocals, piano on track 6, chimes on track 5
  • Nancy Wilson – acoustic guitars, electric guitar, harmonica, lead vocals on track 7, backing vocals
  • Roger Fisher – lead guitar
  • Howard Leese – guitars, keyboards, ARP Avatar, percussion on track 1, backing vocals,
  • Steve Fossen – bass guitar, percussion on track 1
  • Michael DeRosier – drums, chimes on track 8
  • Additional personnel

  • Dick Adams - voice on track 1
  • Sue Ennis - fun machine on track 7
  • Frank DeCaro - strings conductor
  • Production

  • Mike Flicker - producer, engineer
  • Michael Fisher - producer
  • Rick Keefer, Armin Steiner – engineers
  • Thomas J Landon, Terry Gottlieb - assistant engineers
  • John Golden - mastering at Kendun Recorders
  • Songs

    1Cook With Fire4:57
    2High Time3:23
    3Hijinx3:32

    References

    Dog & Butterfly (album) Wikipedia