“When Mike and I play the correct parts - which we can’t help but do, ’cause we made ’em u - it makes the job of the guitar player and keyboard player and singers easier. * Fossen adds that having the band’s rhythm section intact is crucial to delivering the songs the way they were meant to be heard. Michigan theater grad loves his life behind the scenes on ‘Mrs. Mike and I were promoting all these songs back when we were younger ’cause we helped record the albums, so we felt like we could continue to promote it and sell more albums.” The two, Fossen adds, continue to receive royalties from the albums they played on. “There were several bands out there playing the Heart material, but we felt like we could do it with better justice than other people - like playing it close to the recordings and the arrangements and tempos and everything. * Though Heart By Heart grew out of a one-off performance at a private show where he met Macek, Fossen, 73, says phone that there was a simple reason to make the band a going concern. And with Heart sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson largely apart these says (though playing their first show together since 2019 on New Year’s Eve in Seattle), it’s left to Fossen and company to keep the songs, and especially the early material, alive for fans… So Heart By Heart - which includes Fossen’s wife Somar Macek on vocals - has an authenticity and credibility that’s not found in most acts dubbed tributes.

Both were also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Heart during April of 2013. Both were with the band through 1982, playing on Heart’s first six albums and hits such as “Magic Man,” “Crazy on You,” “Barracuda,” “Straight On” and more. The Seattle group features two members from Heart’s heyday - original bassist Steve Fossen and drummer Michael DeRosier, who joined in 1975. In what’s become an overcrowded world of tribute bands, Heart By Heart stands apart from the pack - and for good reason.

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