Dog and Butterfly

Infobox Album | Name = Dog & Butterfly
Type = Studio album
Artist = Heart


Released = 7 October 1978
Recorded = 1978
Genre = Hard rock / Folk rock
Length = 39:33
Label = Portrait / Epic
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:p247gjqrj6ic link]
Producer = Mike Flicker
Last album = "Magazine" (1978)
This album = "Dog & Butterfly" (1978)
Next album = "Bebe le Strange" (1980) |

"Dog & Butterfly" is the fourth studio album by Heart, released in 1978. Heart rebounded from below average sales from Magazine, as "Dog & Butterfly" was certified double platinum, spent 36 weeks on the charts, and peaked at number seventeen on the U.S. Billboard 200. The album contained two hit singles; "Straight On", and "Dog & Butterfly".

As Heart themselves noted on the album's release, Side 1 was the "Dog" side, and was the more "rocking" compared to the "Butterfly" Side 2, which was all ballads, with the exception of "Mistral Wind," which, in many ways, epitomized the trademark sound for which Heart would be remembered: folksy ballads shifting into searing hard rock explosions.

Track listing

# "Cook with Fire" (Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Roger Fisher, Sue Ennis, Howard Leese) – 4:58
# "High Time" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) – 3:22
# "Hijinx" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) – 3:31
# "Straight On" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) – 5:10
# "Dog and Butterfly" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) – 5:20
# "Lighter Touch" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) – 5:03
# "Nada One" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) – 5:21
# "Mistral Wind" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis, Fisher) – 6:40

Bonus tracks (CD reissue)

# "Heartless" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson)
# "Feels"
# "A Little Bit"

Performers

*Michael DeRosier – drums
*Howard Leese – guitar, keyboards
*Roger Fisher – guitar, steel guitar
*Steve Fossen – bass guitar, percussion
*Rick Keefer – synthesizer, vocals
*Ann Wilson – lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, violin
*Nancy Wilson – vocals, guitar, piano