''Beautiful Broken'' is the sixteenth studio album by American

rock Rock most often refers to: * Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids * Rock music, a genre of popular music Rock or Rocks may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wale ...

band

Heart The heart is a muscular Organ (biology), organ found in humans and other animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels. The heart and blood vessels together make the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrie ...

, released on July 8, 2016, by

Concord Records Concord Records is an American record label owned by Concord and based in Los Angeles, California. Concord Records was launched in 1995 as an imprint designed to reach beyond the company's foundational Concord Jazz label. The label's artists ha ...

. Aside from two new songs, the album consists mostly of re-interpretations of songs from the band's earlier albums.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''Beautiful Broken''.

Heart

Ann Wilson Ann Dustin Wilson (born June 19, 1950) is an American singer best known as the lead singer of the rock band Heart. Wilson has been a member of Heart since the early 1970s; her younger sister, Nancy Wilson, is also a member of the band. One o ...

– vocals ; background vocals ;

autoharp An autoharp or chord zither is a string instrument belonging to the zither family. It uses a series of bars individually configured to mute all strings other than those needed for the intended chord. The term ''autoharp'' was once a trademark of t ...

* Nancy Wilson – guitar ; background vocals ; vocals ;

marxophone The Marxophone is a fretless zither played via a system of metal hammers. It features two octaves of double melody strings in the key of C major (middle C to C''), and four sets of chord strings (C major, G major, F major, and D7). Sounding ...

; bowed acoustic guitar ; acoustic guitar ; autoharp, handclaps, whispers * Ben Smith – drums ; percussion ; claps, snaps * Craig Bartock – guitars ; acoustic guitar ; 12-string acoustic guitar ; background vocals ; percussive guitar, claps, snaps * Chris Joyner – synthesizers ; piano ;

Wurlitzer The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer. The company initially imported stringed, woodwind and brass instruments ...

;

Hammond B3 Hammond may refer to: People * Hammond Innes (1913–1998), English novelist * Hammond (surname) * Justice Hammond (disambiguation) Places Antarctica * Hammond Glacier, Antarctica Australia *Hammond, South Australia, a small settlement in Sout ...

; field organ,

nylon-string guitar The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the modern steel-string a ...

* Dan Rothchild – bass ; background vocals ; additional synthesizer ;

Moog bass The Moog Taurus is a foot-operated analog synthesizer designed and manufactured by Moog Music. It was originally conceived as a part of the Constellation series of synthesizers. The initial Taurus I was manufactured from 1975 to 1981; a less pop ...

; Hammond B3, additional piano ; background vocals ; guitar ; acoustic guitar ;

lap steel guitar The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar or lap slide guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of pla ...

; percussion ; textures ;

upright bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

; additional guitar ; handclaps

Additional musicians

James Hetfield James Alan Hetfield (born August 3, 1963) is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, co-founder, and a primary songwriter of heavy metal band Metallica. He is mainly known for his raspy voice and intricate rhythm playi ...

– vocals, background vocals *

Paul Buckmaster Paul John Buckmaster (13 June 1946 – 7 November 2017) was a British cellist, arranger, conductor and composer, with a career spanning five decades. He is best known for his orchestral collaborations with David Bowie, Shawn Phillips, Elton Joh ...

– string arrangement * Hungarian Studio Orchestra – strings ** Péter Illényi – conducting ** Péter Kanyurszky – concertmaster * Ken Sluiter – additional textures ; claps, snaps ; textures * Billy Mims – claps, snaps * Dwight Mikkelsen – copyist

Technical

* Dan Rothchild – production * Nancy Wilson – production * Ken Sluiter – engineering, mixing * Bill Mims – additional engineering *

Howie Weinberg Howie Weinberg is an American audio mastering engineer. Over the course of his career, he has received over 2,257 mastering credits, three TEC Awards, 21 Grammy Awards, two Juno Awards, and one Mercury Prize. Career Weinberg mastered Herbie Ha ...

– mastering * Gentry Studer – mastering assistance * Chris Claypool – engineering assistance * Geoff Neal – engineering assistance *

Greg Fidelman Greg Fidelman (born September 4, 1965) is an American record mixer, engineer and record producer. He is a frequent collaborator of producer Rick Rubin, and has worked with many bands in various genres, including Metallica, Black Sabbath, Slipkno ...

– additional engineering (James Hetfield's vocals) * Kurina Tamás – strings recording

Artwork

* Brian McGuffey – artwork * Nancy Wilson – art direction * Anna Knowlden – photography * Dan Rothchild – photography

Charts

Notes

References

2016 albums Concord Records albums Heart (band) albums {{hard-rock-album-stub