Label: Reprise Records (Japan), 32XD-498
Style: Pop, Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 42:59
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 239 Mb
Charts: UK #23, US #1, AUS #3, CAN #2, GER #47, NL #86, NZ #4. UK: Gold; CAN: Platinum; AUS: 4x Platinum; US: 7x Platinum.
In 1974, Fleetwood Mac relocated from England to California to manage the band's affairs better. In California, they recorded an album, Heroes Are Hard to Find, and set out on tour. Shortly after finishing the tour, Bob Welch (guitarist, singer, and composer) left the band, ending Fleetwood Mac's ninth lineup in eight years, to form the band Paris.
Prior to Welch's departure, Mick Fleetwood met with producer Keith Olsen at Sound City Studios to listen to some demos. There, Olsen played Fleetwood an album he had recently engineered, titled Buckingham Nicks. Fleetwood particularly enjoyed the guitar solo on the song "Frozen Love", and decided to hire both Olsen and the guitarist, Lindsey Buckingham. However, Buckingham would not accept Fleetwood's offer unless he agreed to also hire Buckingham's musical and romantic partner, Stevie Nicks, even though they were close to breaking up. After an informal interview at a Mexican restaurant, Mick Fleetwood invited both Buckingham and Nicks to join the band, and this tenth lineup of the band proved to be its most successful. Within three months, the band had recorded the album Fleetwood Mac.
During the recording sessions, bassist John McVie clashed with Buckingham over creative decisions made in the studio, particularly over some of the album's bass parts. McVie reminded Buckingham that "The band you're in is Fleetwood Mac. I'm the Mac. And I play the bass." Buckingham told Billboard that Christine McVie was more receptive to his creative input.
"It was so clear that right away that Christine and I had this thing. She was just really looking for direction. She was open to me taking liberties with her songs. So early on, that was probably the first thing that hit me about being in Fleetwood Mac was being extremely aware that I had something to contribute to Christine’s songs as a producer and possibly as a co-writer."
Many of the songs on Fleetwood Mac were written before Buckingham and Nicks joined the band. "Rhiannon", "I'm So Afraid", and "Monday Morning" were written and performed live by the duo and were initially slated to appear on a second Buckingham Nicks album. "Crystal" was recycled from the first Buckingham Nicks album, but with a different arrangement. Fleetwood praised these songs as "show stoppers, even as rough sketches recorded on Lindsey's four-track.
Like all of the band's studio albums, the front cover photo of Fleetwood Mac does not show the whole band, including, in this case, only drummer Mick Fleetwood (standing) and bass guitarist John McVie (kneeling).
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleetwood_Mac_(1975_album))
01. Monday Morning (02:48)
02. Warm Ways (03:54)
03. Blue Letter (02:41)
04. Rhiannon (04:11)
05. Over My Head (03:38)
06. Crystal (05:14)
07. Say You Love Me (04:11)
08. Landslide (03:19)
09. World Turning (04:26)
10. Sugar Daddy (04:10)
11. I'm So Afraid (04:23)
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