So why isn’t this a Fleetwood Mac album? Are we to believe that minus Stevie Nicks it just doesn’t count? It clearly would’ve been a better album with her presence, but it’s been the rhythm section of the band that has been its core from day one, if not its sexy and sultry face.īut more unsettling than that question is the fact that Fleetwood Mac is running out of chances to make a final definitive musical statement. More than one tune is embarrassingly trite.Īnd while it’s been billed as a duets album, there are almost none of the characteristic harmonies on Buckingham/McVie we have come to expect as a given on Mac songs over the last forty years. Several songs, while well-crafted, are of the quality that wouldn’t have made the cut were there another world-class singer and writer present (one of the secrets to so many hits in their bag).
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Instead of proceeding as the “Mac,” or waiting for her contributions to be added later (a la “Tango in the Night”), someone thought it best to release the ten songs that had been worked up thus far as a full album. But they were stuck when Stevie Nicks made it clear that her solo career-these days splitting dates with the Pretenders-was more important. Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, the engine room of the band since the beginning, were there too. Many have asked, “Why wasn’t it?”Īs the story goes Christine and Lindsey went into the studio to woodshed a backlog of songs back in 2015. Just two days before the 50 th anniversary of the Windsor debut (neither of them was in Fleetwood Mac at that time) the two finish up a tour in support of what by all measures should have been a new Fleetwood Mac album.
Back at the beginning, they were a loud, brash, ballsy British blues quartet, led by a messianic guitarist named Peter Green who sang songs about the indifference of God and the evils of money.Īnd in the long history of the band-seventeen studio albums, twenty Billboard Top 40 hits, 100 million records sold, addiction, madness, love, betrayal, breakups, religious cults, and numerous stylistic changes-there have certainly been stranger things than this year’s “Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie” side project.īut if anything, this episode is another example of just how fragile the band’s political chemistry has always been. August 13 will mark the 50 th anniversary of Fleetwood Mac’s its debut at the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Windsor, England. If a band can make it to their fifth decade, they have beaten the longest of odds.
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