“The sessions were really funny because everybody had masks on so you couldn’t really tell if people were glaring at you or smiling,” she said. Next, the trio was off to Seattle, where Wilson recruited a band of musicians and recorded a handful of songs over a week. “All musicians are trying to figure out, ‘What do we do now that the world is changing? How do we continue expressing ourselves so that people can receive our message and our music? What do we do? And how can we actually make a living at it? What’s worth worrying about and what’s not?’” she said. In the Bay Area, they also met with people like longtime music attorney Brian Rohan, who has worked with the likes of Bill Graham, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. “They’re all little children, and half of them are in the Bay Area and half are in Seattle, so we saw all of them.” “It sounds strange, but between Dean and I, we have 10 grandchildren,” the 70-year-old said. Next on the trip was San Francisco, where they visited with Wetter’s side of the family. They visited Joshua Tree National Park before Los Angeles, where they met with music industry executives and others to discuss the state of the industry. The two splurged on a fancy tour bus rental-“it had a stateroom in the back and all that”-and took off, maintaining COVID protocols along the way.
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Wilson had the time to live a typical life: writing, reading, watching TV and otherwise “feeding my head.” But eventually, they couldn’t contain themselves anymore.
The couple and had been cooped up with their dogs. “The Revolution Starts Now” and “The Rooster” were both recorded in Seattle last summer, in the middle of a cross-country road trip that Wilson embarked on with her husband, Dean Wetter, and her manager. When we get our heads around that and are able to accept it and move on, then I think we’ll be OK. We built the system that’s built on that. Americans are always talking about themselves being so uncompromising, but really we’re not. “Another word for democracy is compromise, where everyone supposedly throws in their ideas and their opinion, and we come to a consensus,” she said. still leads the world with its pioneering spirit, but is going through what she described as whitewater rapids that have to be navigated. Nonetheless, Ann Wilson said she loves the United States more than any other place she’s visited.
I don’t want to be a crepehanger and predict horrible things for the country, but until we get past this thing right now, and everybody just accepts that this is what has happened, that we’re living in a democracy. That’s because Trump’s base will believe him no matter what, not wanting to be proven wrong. She predicts things will get worse after the states certify the election for Joe Biden. In fact, the country seems more divided than ever as about 72 million people voted for Donald Trump, some of whom are now parading through the streets and demanding that he remain in charge. Wilson didn’t expect the song to create some sort of kumbaya moment. Let’s just see what else we got as humans like, can we go higher? “To me, the song talks about the idea of, ‘let’s reach higher, let’s think higher.’ Hatred and polarization is one of our more base emotions. “’The Revolution Starts Now’ wasn’t particularly referring to the election, but rather, referring to the mood of the country as a whole and just how polarized the population is at the moment,” she said.
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“Well, I’m living it, because I live smack dab in the middle of a very conservative area, and people all have guns and stuff like that, which is not my way, but that’s the neighborhood.”Ī week before the presidential election, Wilson released her message of compromise a cover of Steve Earle’s 2004 single, “The Revolution Starts Now.” She’s following it up this week with a cover of Alice In Chains’ “The Rooster,” the second in a series of singles fans can expect through the winter. “I talk a lot about compromise and everything,” she said.
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