ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC
Folk Fest: Big Love for solo act 0
BY DENIS ARMSTRONG ,OTTAWA SUN
FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 07, 2012 11:05 PM EDT | UPDATED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 07, 2012 11:56 PM EDT
Lindsey Buckingham
If there ever was anyone who could hit all the right notes for the new Ottawa Folk Festival, Lindsey Buckingham would be at the top of the list.
Fleetwood Mac’s former lead guitarist, and arguably its most successful songwriter, played a solo acoustic show of Fleetwood Mac hits as well as his own songs, stripped down to the bare bones.
Now 62 but looking intense, Buckingham opened his show with Cast Away Dreams. Alas, despite the tune’s hypnotic rhythm, the sound was so loud and sharp, it hurt to listen. However, the problem was fixed by the time he played his second tune, a Fleetwood Mac cover called Bleed to Love Her.
He then described the show’s content, and his career thus far as the “big machine versus the little machine, that is, Fleetwood Mac and my solo career.”
In the late 1970s, Fleetwood Mac was one of the biggest-selling bands on the planet, and Buckingham was the author of their most popular hit songs Go Your Own Way, Never Going Back Again and Big Love.
Packing an impressive arsenal of exotic guitars, Buckingham played some of the most dazzling licks I’ve ever heard from a guitar, and his writing is forceful and unconventional. My only regret was having to leave early to meet an early deadline.
With the threat of rain and the euphoria of opening night dissipated, the mood around Hog’s Back Park ........
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