Ann Wilson Releases ‘Nothing But Love,’ a ’90s Burt Bacharach Co-Write Finally on Record

The track, co-written with Bacharach in the '90s, was performed live by Heart but never committed to a studio recording until now.

Ann Wilson has released ‘Nothing But Love,' a studio recording of a song she co-wrote with Burt Bacharach in the 1990s. Previously performed live by Heart but never officially recorded, the track is tied to Wilson's upcoming documentary, In My Voice, which makes its debut May 11 in Seattle before a nine-date screening tour featuring Q&As with Wilson and director Barbara Hall.

A Long-Delayed Studio Debut

Wilson and Heart performed ‘Nothing But Love' on a number of occasions over the years, but the song never found its way onto a studio album. Wilson has been candid about why: the track simply didn't fit the musical climate of the era in which it was written.

“I've always really liked it,” Wilson told Rolling Stone, “but it didn't fit with what was going on in the 1990s at all. It's just so unlike what was going on at that moment, but it seems natural now. It's got some soul to it. It's something that I love hearing, and I love singing. I hope people really get lifted by it.”

In My Voice Documentary and Screening Tour

The song will appear in Wilson's documentary In My Voice, which premieres May 11 in Seattle. Following that debut, Wilson will take the film on a nine-date screening tour, with each stop including a Q&A session featuring Wilson and the film's director, Barbara Hall.

Wilson has described the documentary as a deliberate effort to step outside the long shadow of Heart and present herself as an individual. “I believe that in my career and in my life, people have a really hard time separating me from Heart, and you know, you can't blame them,” she said. “It's been my life's work. But this is an opportunity for them to know me apart from Heart, apart from music, even — just the things that have happened to me and the journeys I've been through now as an older woman.”

What we know

• ‘Nothing But Love' was co-written by Ann Wilson and Burt Bacharach in the 1990s.
• Wilson and Heart performed the song live on multiple occasions, but this is the first studio recording of it.
• The song will be featured in Wilson's documentary In My Voice.
• In My Voice makes its official debut on May 11 in Seattle.
• A nine-date screening tour will follow the premiere, with Q&As featuring Wilson and director Barbara Hall at each stop.

The take

The belated studio debut of ‘Nothing But Love' is a reminder of how much unreleased or under-documented material exists in the catalogs of major classic rock artists. Wilson's explanation that the song didn't fit the 1990s commercial landscape rings true: that decade was particularly unforgiving to artists whose sound leaned toward orchestrated pop or soul rather than grunge-adjacent rock. Bacharach, for his part, spent much of the '90s in a similar position, his melodic sophistication temporarily out of fashion before a critical reappraisal later in the decade helped restore his standing. The pairing of Wilson's voice with Bacharach's compositional sensibility is a natural one on paper; Wilson has always been a vocalist whose range and emotional depth suit material that demands more than power chords. The documentary context also matters here. Legacy artists releasing archival or newly recorded material alongside biographical films has become an increasingly common strategy, allowing a single project to serve both as a career retrospective and a platform for new work. For Wilson specifically, the challenge of establishing an identity separate from Heart is real and longstanding. Heart's catalog is so dominant in the classic rock canon that solo work by either Wilson sister has historically struggled to command equivalent attention. In My Voice appears to be a deliberate and considered attempt to address that directly.

Why it matters

For classic rock fans, ‘Nothing But Love' fills a genuine gap: a song with a documented live history that never made it to record. Beyond the track itself, the documentary and screening tour represent Wilson's most focused effort yet to define her legacy on her own terms, separate from Heart. That kind of artist-driven biographical project, combining film, live appearances, and new music, is increasingly how legacy artists shape how they're remembered, and Wilson's approach here is worth watching closely.

What's next

In My Voice premieres May 11 in Seattle. Wilson will then conduct a nine-date screening tour, with each stop pairing a film screening with a Q&A featuring Wilson and director Barbara Hall. ‘Nothing But Love' is available to hear now.

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