Dog & Butterfly by Heart

Dog & Butterfly, Heart's fourth studio album, came out on Portrait Records in 1978, after a legal fight with Mushroom Records over the release of Magazine. Mike Flicker produced, and the band split the record neatly down the middle: the first side, the Dog, is for rocking out; the second, the Butterfly, is mostly ballads, apart from the closing "Mistral Wind".

Ann Wilson's voice soars and snarls, Nancy's acoustic guitar gives the soft side its shimmer, and Roger Fisher, Howard Leese, Steve Fossen and Michael Derosier lay down plenty of muscle. Opener "Cook with Fire" sounds live, but it was cut at Sea-West Studios with the rest of the album and crowd noise dubbed on afterward. "Straight On" is the sleek, funky strut and the title track the dreamy one. It went to number 17 on the Billboard 200 and has since gone double platinum.

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