On
The Road Home,
Heart re-records some of their biggest hits acoustically live in concert. It's interesting to hear these arena rock and AOR standards -- including "Barracuda," "Crazy on You," "Dreamboat Annie," and "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" -- recast as intimate numbers;
Heart manages to find new layers in all of these warhorses, partially due to the sublime production of
John Paul Jones. The result is
Heart's best album in years -- the old material sounds more alive than anything they have written in a decade. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine