Tango In The Night - Which Songs Include Stevie?

[David]

Originally Posted by cbBen

How the band could pass up "Whole Lotta Trouble" for "Sara" and "When I See You" is beyond me.

It's intriguing trying to imagine how Fleetwood Mac circa 1986 would have rendered Whole Lotta Trouble. What we got on the Mirror solo album is a big, horn-heavy, galumphing production—an old-fashioned blues groove of the kind that Joe Cocker and Leon Russell used to shout through. The way it was done in 1989, it never appealed to me, but based on her video commentary, it apparently appealed to Stevie as a great instance of R&B.

But what would Fleetwood Mac have done with this thing? A straight 4/4? A slow blues burn with B3? Horns? Electric guitar blues licks where the horns currently are? Cokie Stevie bellowing at random?

As I said, this may be one time Lindsey as producer let his resentment of Stevie get the better of him. That said, he pulled gold from ashes and made a great album.

The assumption that LB was seething with rage at Stevie and sabotaged her earnest attempts to participate in the album doesn't go far with me. He was trying to make an amazing album, and if he thought her emotive vocals didn't fit everywhere, so be it.

On several occasions, he ditched a great vocal of hers in favor of an inferior one, as on the Angel early vocal (one of the sexiest things she ever laid down) on Tusk Deluxe. It's just a difference of opinion—his and mine! He also used an inferior vocal of That's Alright for Mirage. Her earlier takes are stronger, sweeter, more country. But he and the rest of the band obviously thought what they chose was superior. What are ya gonna do?

Dashut or Caillat did a Q&A for the Penguin, but I can't reach it. They may have addressed this issue.