Nancy Wilson of Heart has put together a very fitting, and beautiful, acoustic guitar song for Eddie Van Halen. She recalls that, “When Heart toured with Van Halen I asked Eddie why he never played acoustic guitar, his response [was] ‘I don’t have one.’ I gave Eddie one of mine and he immediately wrote a song on it that stole my heart. After he passed, it hit me so hard I felt it was time to pay tribute to him.” So Wilson wrote a short and soulful melody in honour of EVH called ‘4 Edward’.

 

 

When asked what made this song unique, Nancy said: “I think the fact that I wanted to tribute him and dedicate it to him, because he was a sweet soul and a good friend of mine, the times that we actually did have a chance to hang out together a little bit. He had all this joy that he brought into his playing. That big smile on his face all the time was so infectious and so different from a lot of rock and roll players. He had his own joy that he brought to the music that he created that was so different from so much else that was happening in music.”

 

 

Nancy Wilson’s debut solo album, years-in-the-making You And Me, will be released on May 7 and finishes with this simple yet lovely tribute to rock God Eddie Van Halen. Here’s the full tracking list for the rest of the album, which will also feature other rock n’ roll buddies of Wilson like Duff McKagen of Guns N’ Roses and Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters.

You And Me Tracking list: 

01. You And Me
02. The Rising
03. I’ll Find You
04. Daughter

05. Party At The Angel Ballroom (feat. Duff McKagan & Taylor Hawkins)
06. The Boxer (feat. Sammy Hagar)
07. Walk Away
08. The Inbetween
09. Dreams (feat. Liv Warfield)
10. The Dragon
11. We Meet Again
12. 4 Edward

 

 

 

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