Dog & Butterfly (album)

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Dog & Butterfly
File:Dogandbutterfly.jpg
Studio album by Heart
Released October 7, 1978
Recorded Sea-West Studios, Seattle, Washington,
Capitol Studios, Hollywood, California (strings), 1978
Genre Hard rock, folk rock
Length 39:43
Label Portrait
Producer Mike Flicker, Heart & Michael Fisher
Heart chronology
Magazine
(1978)Magazine1978
Dog & Butterfly
(1978)
Bebe le Strange
(1980)Bebe le Strange1980
Singles from Dog & Butterfly
  1. "Straight On" / "Lighter Touch"
    Released: October 1978
  2. "Dog & Butterfly" / "Mistral Wind"
    Released: March 1979
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars[1]
Robert Christgau C[2]
Rolling Stone (favorable)[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 2.5/5 stars[4]
PopMatters (unfavorable)[5]

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,[6] spent 36 weeks on the charts, and peaked at No. 17 on the US Billboard 200.[7] 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".

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 songs written and composed by Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Sue Ennis, except where indicated. 

Side one - Dog
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Cook with Fire"   A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis, Roger Fisher, Howard Leese 4:59
2. "High Time"     3:24
3. "Hijinx"     3:33
4. "Straight On"     5:10
Side two - Butterfly
No. Title Writer(s) Length
5. "Dog & Butterfly"     5:22
6. "Lighter Touch"     5:05
7. "Nada One"     5:22
8. "Mistral Wind"   A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis, Fisher 6:45

Personnel

Heart

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

Charts

Certifications

Country Organization Year Sales
USA RIAA 1992 2x Platinum (+ 2,000,000)[6]
Canada CRIA 1978 Platinum (+ 100,000)[15]

References

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