'Fargo' Tunes 1: Billy Thorpe & Fleetwood Mac
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Tuesday, 13 October 2015 Written by Rich Kienzle, Community Voices
No SPOILERS
Tuesday's Season Two premiere of FX's Fargo, which earned critical acclaim for its complex stories of crime in the upper Midwest, inspired by the now-classic Coen Brothers movie, was an impressive kic-off. It also had two songs on the soundtrack, one from 1979, the year in which the season is set, and another from a decade earlier by an early incarnation of one of rock's most respected bands.
It was a decade earlier than the setting for this season of Fargo, and represented a far different
Fleetwood Mac than the better known Christine McVie-Lindsey Buckingham-Stevie Nicks lineup responsible for Rumours and the rest. This group was the original blues band guitarist Peter Green formed with Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, who like Green, were former members of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in 1968. Green had replaced Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers. Singer-slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer, originally an Elmore James revivalist, was part of the original quartet. Guitarist Danny Kirwan joined the band late that year. "Oh Well," like the instrumental "Albatross," were Green compositions that went far afield from the band's roots in the music of Freddie King, B.B. King and Elmore James.
A live "Oh Well" from the BBC TV show Old Grey Whistle Test. And yes, Green was an awe-inspiring guitarist in his own right, one who battled drugs and mental issues for years and has resurfaced in the past few years, still a formidable player. Christine McVie would join the band in 1970.