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Ann Wilson Hope & Glory Street Date: September 11, 2007 Hope & Glory - Ann Wilson’s first solo album ever -is a singularly powerful and altogether timely song cycle that speaks eloquently to our troubled times. The world has long known Heart’s Ann Wilson as one of the greatest and most enduring vocalists of her generation. Yet on her ultimately hopeful and glorious solo debut for Zoë/ Rounder Records to be released on September 11, 2007, Wilson is likely to stun even her lifelong fans with what could fairly be called the mother of all cover albums. On Hope & Glory, Wilson manages to reinterpret and reinvent some of the greatest songs of the past forty years that powerfully and poignantly reflect the here and now, including classics from the Sixties (Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall,” Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising,” The Animals’ “We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place,” and The Youngbloods’ “Get Together”), and Seventies (Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant S...