I can’t listen to Fleetwood Mac’s eponymous 1975 album without thinking of a lunch meeting I had in New York City early in the year before its release. I had arranged an interview with a folk duo called Carlson and […]
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Does anybody know what time it is? Does anybody really care? Old songs tend to drift in and out of our sub-conscious at the most random of times. For some reason the old Chicago song came to mind as I […]
According to conventional wisdom, Fleetwood Mac’s peak occurred between 1975 and 1977, when the band—reinvigorated by the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks—issued an eponymous album and Rumours. Many critics viewed the 1979 follow-up to the latter LP, Tusk, […]
Most weeks in my Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week column, I try to focus in on either up and coming or established artists in the very loose “roots” music definition, in keeping with me writing for a publication that has […]
“Ladies and gentlemen. Would you please give a warm welcome…. to Fleetwood Mac.” It was a line repeated nightly to introduce the world’s biggest band. It was more of a declaratory set of words than a question. There was a […]
If ever there was a case of the media building up and then knocking down a band, it was the one involving Fleetwood Mac in the late 70s and early 80s. The critics cheered when the group—newly energized by the […]
I’ve seen electric and acoustic Ann Klein shows, and I can’t understand why she’s ever classified as a blues artist. She isn’t sure either. “Although I definitely have some blues roots,” Klein says, “I describe it like this: If Lucinda Williams […]
Releasing live albums, bootleg boxes, EPs, and full-length studio albums at a rapid pace in recent years, Graham Parker appears to be at the most prolific stage of his career. Nonetheless, he’s not convinced he’s done enough. “I don’t think I’ve […]
Most music book publishers release their best books in the fall — roughly August to January, depending on the publishing house — and I had the opportunity just a few months ago to plod, trudge, or breeze through door-stopping memoirs […]
Though Tusk received generally positive reviews when it appeared in 1979, the prevailing view seems to be that it paled alongside its huge-selling immediate predecessors, 1975’s Fleetwood Mac and 1977’s Rumours. The consensus was that Lindsey Buckingham had taken over […]
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