Red Velvet Car

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(71/100)^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Rolling Stone	^[3]
Billboard	(60/100)^[4]
Los Angeles Times	^[5]
Now	^[6]
PopMatters	^[7]
Uncut	^[8]

Red Velvet Car is the fourteenth studio album by American hard rock band Heart, released worldwide on August 31, 2010 by Legacy Recordings. It peaked at No. 10 on the US Billboard 200 chart, and at No. 3 on the US Rock Albums Chart,^[9] making it Heart's first top 10 hit album in 20 years since Brigade (1990). It contains the Billboard US Adult Contemporary Chart hit single "Hey You" (No. 26)^[10] and the Top Selling Rock Singles Chart hit "WTF" (No. 16).

The album was released with differing track lists according to format in different territories: the standard US CD release features 10 tracks, the European CD and US download version contain 12 tracks, whilst the Japanese CD and some exclusive download versions contain 13 tracks. Though the 13th track is "Listening" on the Japanese CD, some exclusive download versions substitute this for a live 2010 version of "Crazy on You".

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"There You Go"	Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Craig Bartock	3:36
2.	"WTF"	A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Bartock, Ben Mink	3:26
3.	"Red Velvet Car"	A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Mink	2:59
4.	"Queen City"	A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Bartock	4:16
5.	"Hey You"	N. Wilson, Mink	4:13
6.	"Wheels"	A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Sue Ennis, Mink	3:06
7.	"Safronia's Mark"	A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Bartock	4:03
8.	"Death Valley"	A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Mink	3:55
9.	"Sunflower"	N. Wilson, Mink	3:42
10.	"Sand" (Lovemongers cover)	A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis, Frank Cox	4:07

Bonus tracks
Track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"Closer to the Sun" (Target store exclusive in U.S.A./ European and Canadian CD release)	A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Bartock, Mink	4:52
12.	"In the Cool" (Target store exclusive in U.S.A./Canadian CD release)	A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Bartock	3:54
13.	"Bootful of Beer" (European, Canadian and Japanese CD release/download version)	A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Mink	2:55
14.	"Listening" (Japanese CD release/some download versions)		4:55

Personnel

Musicians

Ann Wilson - vocals, flute
Nancy Wilson - acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, autoharp, dobro, vocals
Ben Smith - drums and percussion
Ben Mink - acoustic, electric and lap steel guitars, viola, keyboards and programming, string arrangements, producer
Ric Markmann - bass
Craig Bartock - Dobro on "Safronia's Mark"
Geddy Lee - whistle on "Death Valley"

Production

David Leonard - engineer, mixing
Patrick MacDougall - engineer
Andrew Bodkin, David Eaman, Masa Fukudome, Matthew MacDougall, Melanie Mullens - assistant engineers
Craig Waddell - mastering at Gotham City Studios

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2010	Top Rock Albums Chart (USA)^[9]	3
	Billboard 200 (USA)^[9]	10
	Tastemaker Albums Chart (USA)^[11]	12
	Digital Albums Chart (USA)^[9]	20
	UK Albums Chart^[12]	196
	Oricon Japanese Albums Charts^[13]	243

Songs

Year	Title	Chart	Position
2010	"Hey You"	Adult Contemporary (USA)^[10]	26

References

↑ Red Velvet Car - Heart at Metacritic Retrieved June 29, 2014.
↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Heart - Red Velvet Car review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
↑ Sheffield, Rob (August 30, 2010). "Heart - Red Velvet Car". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
↑ "Heart, "Red Velvet Car"". Billboard.com. Billboard. September 10, 2010. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
↑ Wood, Mikael (August 30, 2010). "Album review: Heart's 'Red Velvet Car'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
↑ Gillis, Carla (September 2, 2010). "Heart - Red Velvet Car". Now. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
↑ Kott, Crispin (November 4, 2010). "Heart: Red Velvet Car". PopMatters. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
↑ Staunton, Terry (October 2010). "Heart - Red Velvet Car". Uncut (161): 94. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
1 2 3 4 "Red Velvet Car Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
1 2 "Red Velvet Car Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
↑ "Heart chart history".
↑ "Chart Log UK: H & Claire- Hysterix". Zobbel.de. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
↑ ハートのアルバム売り上げランキング (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2014-06-09.

Heart

Ann Wilson Nancy Wilson Ben Smith Craig Bartock Dan Rothchild Chris Joyner Roger Fisher Howard Leese Denny Carmassi Mark Andes Fernando Saunders Scott Olson Mike Inez Darian Sahanaja Gilby Clarke

Studio albums	Dreamboat Annie Little Queen Magazine Dog & Butterfly Bébé le Strange Private Audition Passionworks Heart Bad Animals Brigade Desire Walks On Heart Presents a Lovemongers' Christmas Jupiters Darling Red Velvet Car Fanatic Beautiful Broken

Live albums	Greatest Hits/Live Rock the House Live! The Road Home Alive in Seattle Dreamboat Annie Live

Compilations	Greatest Hits/Live These Dreams: Greatest Hits Greatest Hits Greatest Hits: 1985-1995 The Essential Heart Love Alive Love Songs Playlist: The Very Best of Heart Strange Euphoria

Singles	"Crazy on You" "Magic Man" "Dreamboat Annie" "Barracuda" "Little Queen" "Kick It Out" "Heartless" "Straight On" "Dog & Butterfly" "Without You" "Even It Up" "Bebe le Strange" "Tell It Like It Is" "Unchained Melody" "This Man Is Mine" "How Can I Refuse?" "Allies" "What About Love" "Never" "These Dreams" "Nothin' at All" "If Looks Could Kill" "Alone" "Who Will You Run To" "There's the Girl" "I Want You So Bad" "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" "Tall, Dark Handsome Stranger" "I Didn't Want to Need You" "Stranded" "Secret" "You're the Voice" "Will You Be There (In the Morning)"

Related articles	Discography List of band members Whirlygig Hope & Glory

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