Red Velvet Car is the thirteenth studio album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by US hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band Heart

Heart (band)

Heart is an American rock band who first found success in Canada. Throughout several lineup changes, the only two members remaining constant are sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. The group rose to fame in the 1970s with their music being influenced by hard rock as well as folk music...

, released worldwide on August 31, 2010 by Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings is Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division. It was founded in 1990 by CBS Records under the leadership of Jerry Shulman, Richard Bauer, Gary Pacheco and Amy Herot to handle reissues of recordings from the vast catalogues of Columbia Records, Epic Records and associated...

. It debuted at #10 on the US Billboard 200, and at #3 on the US Rock Albums chart, making it the most successful chart debut for a Heart album in their career, and their first top 10 hit album for 20 years since 1990's Brigade

Brigade (album)

Brigade is the tenth studio album, eleventh overall, released by the popular rock/pop band Heart. Released in 1990 after a three-year gap between albums, the album featured the #2 Billboard Hot 100 hit "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" and reached number three on the U.S. Billboard 200, and was...

. It contains the US Adult Contemporary Chart hit singles "WTF" and "Hey You".

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

Crazy on You

"Crazy on You" is the guitar-driven debut single from the female-fronted rock band Heart's debut album Dreamboat Annie, released in 1976. Starting with an acoustic guitar intro, the song turns into fast-paced rock song that was the signature sound of the band in their early years...

".

Track listing

1. "There You Go" – 3:36 (Ann Wilson
   Ann Wilson
   Ann Dustin Wilson is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, flute player, songwriter, and occasional guitar player of the rock band Heart.-Personal life:...
   
   , Nancy Wilson
   Nancy Wilson (guitarist)
   Nancy Lamoureux Wilson is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer who, with her older sister Ann and lead guitarist Roger Fisher, became the core of the Seattle/Vancouver rock band Heart.-Life and career:...
   
   , Craig Bartock)
2. "WTF" – 3:26 (Wilson, Wilson, Bartock, Ben Mink
   Ben Mink
   Ben Mink is a Canadian songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer.Born of Polish parents, Mink was raised in Toronto Ontario. He got his start performing with the rock/country group Mary-Lou Horner, which became the house band at bar and nightclub....
   
   )
3. "Red Velvet Car" – 2:59 (Wilson, Wilson, Mink)
4. "Queen City" – 4:16 (Wilson, Wilson, Bartock)
5. "Hey You" – 4:13 (Nancy Wilson, Mink)
6. "Wheels" – 3:06 (Wilson, Wilson, Sue Ennis
   Sue Ennis
   Sue Ennis is a Seattle songwriter whose songs include Classic Rock radio staples Straight On, Even It Up and Dog and Butterfly. She has co-written over 65 songs for the rock band Heart and co-wrote the theme from The Golden Child starring Eddie Murphy with James Bond composer, John Barry, Ann and...
   
   , Mink)
7. "Safronia's Mark" – 4:03 (Wilson, Wilson, Bartock)
8. "Death Valley" – 3:55 (Wilson, Wilson, Mink)
9. "Sunflower" – 3:42 (Nancy Wilson, Mink)
10. "Sand" – 4:07 (Wilson, Wilson, Ennis, Frank Cox)
11. "Closer to the Sun" – 4:52 (Wilson, Wilson, Bartock, Mink) (bonus track; Target store exclusive in U.S.A./ European and Canadian CD release)
12. "In the Cool" – 3:54 (Wilson, Wilson, Bartock) (bonus track; Target store exclusive in U.S.A./Canadian CD release)
13. "Bootful of Beer" – 2:55 (bonus track; European, Canadian & Japanese CD release/download version)
14. "Listening" – 4:55 (bonus track; Japanese CD release/some download versions)

Chart performance

Chart (2010)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart	196
U.S. Billboard 200	10
U.S. Billboard Digital Albums Chart	20
U.S. Billboard Tastemaker Albums Chart	12
U.S. Billboard Top Rock Albums Chart	3

Personnel

• Ann Wilson: Vocals, flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  
• Nancy Wilson: Acoustic
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
   and electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  s, mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  , autoharp
  Autoharp
  The autoharp is a musical string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers, which, when depressed, mute all of the strings other than those that form the desired chord. Despite its name, the autoharp is not a harp at all, but a chorded zither. -History:There is debate over the...
  
  , vocals
• Ben Mink: Acoustic, electric and lap steel guitar
  Lap steel guitar
  The lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar, an instrument derived from and similar to the guitar. The player changes pitch by pressing a metal or glass bar against the strings instead of by pressing strings against the fingerboard....
  
  s, viola, keyboards and programming, string arrangements
• Craig Bartock: Dobro
  Dobro
  Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...
  
  
• Ric Markmann: Bass
• Ben Smith: Drums and percussion

Production

• Produced by Ben Mink
• Engineered by David Leonard
  David Leonard (producer)
  David Leonard is a Grammy Award-winning American record producer and audio engineer.-Production discography:* 1981: Chaka Khan - What Cha' Gonna Do for Me - co-engineer* 1981: The Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat - mixing assistant...
  
  , Patrick MacDougall
• Assistant engineers: Andrew Bodkin, David Eaman, Masa Fukudome, Matthew MacDougall and Melanie Mullens
• Mixed by David Leonard
• Mastered by Craig Waddell