Gate and Garden - No backing vocals

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Jimmy had far less control on WH than he did on BD. Stevie had tasted solo fame and the power that goes with it and they fought a lot more over the direction of the music. She started going down that synth-dance music path over the rock and roll path. It got worse on RAL and at that point he left. Stevie herself said that Tom at some point made a comment about why was she doing this dance stuff instead of rock and roll. All roads lead to Stevie, and the influences she allowed herself to fall under and the people she let influence her choices during her heavy drug years. (Kenny G, anyone????)

I don't disagree with what you said but there is still some wonky stuff on Wild Heart like the title track ending. That would be Jimmy, the producer. Enchanted is a great song but its an exact copy of another album Jimmy was producing at the same time: The Distance by Bob Segar. The same musicians Roy and Russell just played Even Now and months later went down with Jimmy and Stevie and pretty much played the same exact track just with different lyrics. Your can literally sing Enchanted to Even Now.
But no doubt Stevie let her friend play the dreaded keyboard intro on Nightbird and the basic piano on Wild Heart
Its still a solid album but a few tweaks could have made it so much better.