I would like to dedicate this post to my grandfather who passed away this week. After all, he was the person that bought me my first ever Heart album. I was 13 years old when I spent a weekend (as I often did) at my grandparent’s house. We had decided to go out to lunch and go shopping at Barnes and Noble. I had just began listening to Heart on YouTube, so when we got to the music section of the store, I ran straight for the Heart section. I really wanted was looking for a Greatest Hits album of some sort, because I only knew the big hits and didn’t want all the album filler tracks. I found a CD called “The Road Home,” which is a live acoustic album that came out in 1995, my birth year! It had some of the greatest Heart songs on it, including “Crazy on You,” “Alone,” “These Dreams,” “Straight On,” and “Barracuda.” I ran over to my Grandpa with it and showed him how cool it looked. It was at that moment that he took it up to the counter and bought it for me. I was so appreciative and just super stoked that I had my first Heart album. We started listening to it on the car ride back to his house, and he started playing it over the stereo in his house. I’ll forever be appreciative to him for buying me that album. A lifelong musician, he instilled in me a passion for music. He was a super talented guitarist who once played to a crowd of about 5,000 people! See my next post, as I will post the live video version of the first Heart album I ever owned.