Jupiters Darling Explained

Jupiters Darling
Type:	studio
Artist:	Heart
Cover:	Heart - Jupiters Darling.png
Released:	June 22, 2004
Recorded:	November 2003–March 2004
Studio:	Whoville (Seattle) The Back Yard (Los Angeles) Ice Station Zebra (Seattle) Vaughn Verdi's house (Los Angeles)
Genre:	Hard rock folk rock
Length:	62:04
Label:	Sovereign Artists
Producer:	Nancy Wilson Craig Bartock
Prev Title:	Alive in Seattle
Prev Year:	2003
Next Title:	Love Alive
Next Year:	2005

Jupiters Darling is the thirteenth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on June 22, 2004, by Sovereign Artists. Sovereign Artist's marketing director, Paul Angles, simultaneously released their album via file sharing networks,^[1] which were included in an amicus curiae brief to the US Supreme Court.^[2] Two promotional singles were released simultaneously with the album: "The Oldest Story in the World", which peaked at number 22 on Billboard Heritage Rock chart,^[3] and "The Perfect Goodbye".^[4] Heart performed "The Perfect Goodbye" with country singer Wynonna Judd on CMT Crossroads on July 9, 2004.^[5]

This album continued the move back to Heart's hard rock and folk rock roots. It peaked at number 94 on the US Billboard 200.

The album cover bears an image of the Mandelbrot set, rotated so the main cardioid is oriented the same way a heart would normally be, with the cusp at top. The album cover art is seen briefly in the 2005 film Elizabethtown, for which Nancy Wilson provided soundtrack music; at the time she was married to the film's director and screenwriter, Cameron Crowe.

Track listing

Notes

• Upon the album's initial release, an exclusive additional track, "Good Vibrations", was available for a limited time as a digital-only download.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Jupiters Darling.^[6]

Heart

• Ann Wilson – lead vocals, harmonies, spoken word
• Nancy Wilson – lead vocals ; harmonies, electric and acoustic guitars, mandolins, mandocello, dulcimer, blues harp, piano, megaphone, string arrangements
• Craig Bartock – lead guitar, acoustics, pump organ, EBow orchestra, Mellotron, marimba, harmonies, string arrangements
• Darian Sahanaja – keyboards, Stylophone
• Mike Inez – bass, tambourine
• Ben Smith – drums, cardboard boxes

Additional musicians

• Jami Sieber – cello
• Ravi Jakhotia – percussion
  • Terry Davison – pedal steel guitar Mike McCready – EBow guitar ; Leslie guitar ; lead guitars
• Jerry Cantrell – guitar

Technical

• Nancy Wilson – production, mixing
• Craig Bartock – production, engineering, mixing
• Dave Dysart – engineering
• Patrick MacDougall – engineering, mixing
• Kam Dahlin – engineering
• Brian "Big Bass" Gardner – mastering at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Los Angeles)

Artwork

• Nancy Wilson – album design, snapshots
• Klaus Whitley – album design, graphic design, additional images, angel wings
• Randee St. Nicholas – photos
• Sabrina Voll – additional images
• Patrick MacDougall – additional images
• Thomas Day – fractal designs
• Theresa Day – fractal designs

Charts

Chart (2004)! scope="col"

Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[7]	222

Notes and References

1. The Tangled Web: The Web's Most Intriguing Music-Related Issues & Destinations. This Week: Heart & Morpheus and The Wire's blogs. . . July 27, 2004 . June 21, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141002222608/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/67183/the-tangled-web . 2 October 2014.
2. Web site: MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. . 2005 . March 5, 2011 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20060214031142/http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/mpaa/04-480.mer.ami.dcia.pdf . February 14, 2006.
3. Heart Chart History (Heritage Rock) . Billboard . February 27, 2021.
4. Wilson Sisters Record New Heart Album For The Fans . Billboard . July 3, 2004 . Newman . Melinda . 116 . 27 . 13 . 0006-2510 . Google Books.
5. Web site: Wynonna "Perfect Goodbye" . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/JSHbTwIc4Zg . 2021-12-22 . live. . March 7, 2008 . June 21, 2014 . YouTube.
6. Jupiters Darling . liner notes . . Sovereign Artists . 2004 . 1953-2.
7. Web site: http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/122259/ranking/cd_album/ . ja:ハートのアルバム売り上げランキング . Heart album sales ranking . ja . . June 9, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714153156/http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/122259/ranking/cd_album/ . July 14, 2014.