Heart – Dog & Butterfly (LP – Used)

Dog & Butterfly is the fourth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on October 7, 1978 through Portrait Records. Dog & Butterfly was certified double platinum, spent 36 weeks on the charts, and peaked at No. 17 on the US Billboard 200. The album was the successor to 1977’s hit Little Queen in terms of musical development and direction, and contained two hit singles: “Straight On”, and “Dog & Butterfly”. As Heart themselves noted on the album’s release, side 1 was the “Dog” side, and was the more “rocking” compared to the “Butterfly” side 2, which was all ballads, with the exception of the closer “Mistral Wind”, which, in many ways, epitomized the trademark sound for which Heart would be remembered: folksy ballads shifting into searing hard rock explosions.