{"id":805208,"date":"2020-03-13T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=966276"},"modified":"2020-03-13T07:00:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T13:00:31","slug":"hear-hearts-nancy-wilson-and-guitarist-eric-tessmers-electrified-depeche-mode-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-hearts-nancy-wilson-and-guitarist-eric-tessmers-electrified-depeche-mode-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Heart\u2019s Nancy Wilson and Guitarist Eric Tessmer\u2019s Electrified Depeche Mode Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/HERO_Nancy-Willson-and-Eric-Tessmer.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/heart\/\" id=\"auto-tag_heart\" data-tag=\"heart\">Heart<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nancy-wilson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nancy-wilson\" data-tag=\"nancy-wilson\">Nancy Wilson<\/a> has teamed with singer and guitarist Eric Tessmer for a harder-rocking rendition of Depeche Mode\u2019s synth-pop classic \u201cPolicy of Truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Where the original song was built from chilly synthesizers and Dave Gahan\u2019s serenely smooth vocals, Wilson and Tessmer kick their guitars into overdrive for the song\u2019s main riff and share impassioned vocals, making the song a duet. They even added a wah-wah guitar solo toward the end.<\/p>\n<p>The musicians met at a benefit in 2017 and became friends. \u201cIt was a mind-blowing, jaw-dropping thing to watch Eric for the first time,\u201d Wilson said in a statement. \u201cEric was tapping into a pure rock and roll thing I can really appreciate.\u201d They decided to get together and work on an as-yet-untitled album of cover songs in person, as opposed to \u201csending tracks back and forth or constructing a sound on a screen,\u201d as Tessmer put it.<\/p>\n<p>They recorded at the Clubhouse, a studio in Austin, in March 2019 with producer-keyboardist David Rice, bassist Chris Maresh and drummer Ramy Antoun. Recording engineer Tim Palmer, who has worked with David Bowie and Pearl Jam, mixed the recording. The duo documented the making of the LP with a behind-the-scenes film.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eIEOzRx06BM?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolicy of Truth\u201d was the third single off Depeche Mode\u2019s touchstone 1990 album <em>Violator<\/em>. Following the blockbuster hits \u201cPersonal Jesus\u201d and \u201cEnjoy the Silence,\u201d it wasn\u2019t as big of a smash, but it did make it to Number 15 on the Hot 100 and Number One on the alternative chart at the time. It has since become one of the group\u2019s most frequently performed songs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/heart-nancy-wilson-eric-tessmer-depeche-mode-policy-truth-966276\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heart\u2019s Nancy Wilson has teamed with singer and guitarist Eric Tessmer for a harder-rocking rendition of Depeche Mode\u2019s synth-pop classic \u201cPolicy of Truth.\u201d Where the original song was built from chilly synthesizers and Dave Gahan\u2019s serenely smooth vocals, Wilson and Tessmer kick their guitars into overdrive for the song\u2019s main riff and share impassioned vocals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 08:08:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}