Ann WIlson – Me and Comanche

Ann Wilson calls her new song kind of a true story, and the family it follows for five generations ends with the man she married.

When Ann Wilson introduces Me and Comanche onstage, she calls it kind of a true story, with some of the edges romanticized. Five generations back, she tells the crowd, two brothers from Germany and two Comanche sisters in Texas started families together. Their descendants moved north to Idaho, then on to Washington State. One of them became the man Wilson married. It’s an odd sort of love song: a family tree set to a slow, tribal beat, and its last name is her husband’s.

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The husband is Dean Wetter, and Wilson has said he carries a wide streak of Comanche ancestry, thinned out by a century and more of marriages across the West. The song doesn’t claim to be genealogy. It takes a story told inside one family and gives it the weight of something larger: people crossing languages and borders and ending up, generations later, in the same Pacific Northwest where Heart started. Wilson has never written much about her own private life. This time she wrote about the family her husband came from.

She wrote it the way she wrote the rest of Consecrated Ground, with the band playing in the next room. “We just get together and they jam and I write,” Wilson said. Tripsitter is guitarist Ryan Wariner, multi-instrumentalist Paul Moak and bassist Tony Lucido, the musicians who first worked with her on 2023’s Another Door. They recorded the new album at Moak’s Smoakstack Studio in Nashville, and Wilson says she left the sessions with pages of lyrics they never got to.

The album after the hard years

The record was made after a hard stretch for Wilson. A routine checkup found cancer. In 2024 Heart postponed its European dates and then the rest of its tour while she had surgery, and she chose a course of preventive chemotherapy. Early in 2025 a fall broke her elbow, which was pinned in three places, and she sang seated for a while. The album’s second track, Bone Pain, comes straight out of that treatment. Me and Comanche follows it, and the shift from what her body went through to her husband’s family story feels intentional.

Ann Wilson & Tripsitter released the song as a single on August 28, 2026, with LouJon Records carrying the digital copyright. The album’s schedule changed along the way. It was first announced for August 14, but Label Logic issued the CD and vinyl on September 25, and the full album reached streaming services on October 9. The official music video followed on November 6, more than two months after the single and a month after the album. By then Wilson had played more than a hundred Heart shows on the Royal Flush tour since 2024, with Tripsitter’s players as her touring band.

The video arrived as Wilson’s year was filling up. In My Voice, a documentary she calls her story in her own words, opens more widely on November 25, and she says Heart’s next album is finished and due in 2027. Among all that, Me and Comanche is the smallest story she has to tell: one family, five generations, two sisters and two brothers whose names the song never gives. For a singer who is often guarded about her private life, it’s a personal song. It shows that a woman who sang about her own life for fifty years can still find a new story in someone else’s family, and that she wanted the song to end at home.