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Old 11-13-2012, 06:38 PM
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I wish it was available on Amazon. I don't like itunes. Many times their sounds sucks. Does anyone know the bit rate that they are offering it (FLAC, 320)?
256 kbps - whatever that means. lol
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Old 11-13-2012, 07:14 PM
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Thanks, that's what I suspected. I will probably wait and see if it is offered somewhere else later on with better quality. What a shame that itunes is the leader in internet downloads yet they fail to offer better quality products. I'm just venting.

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Old 11-13-2012, 07:14 PM
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Holy frigging crap. He has played I'm So Afraid tenthousand times. And here, he rips it to the utter edge. That raw high squeak is pure angst.
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Old 11-13-2012, 07:27 PM
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This is the email they circulated:

ICONIC FLEETWOOD MAC GUITARIST, SINGER, WRITER AND PRODUCER LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM RELEASES SOLO ACOUSTIC LIVE ALBUM


Legendary guitarist, singer/songwriter, Grammy winner, producer and Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame member Lindsey Buckingham has released his first ever solo acoustic live album, Lindsey Buckingham: One Man Show. The album, recorded live and in one take from his Hoyt Sherman Place show in Des Moines, Iowa on September 1st, is a raw and unmixed performance that includes many of his hits. Click Here to Get One Man Show now, exclusively on iTunes.

Buckingham says, “As an artist, you need to seek out what is essential and discard what is inessential, to always keep an eye on what lives at the center. That was the impetus for this performance. My center has always been voice and guitar, and as I've evolved, I've looked to broaden the range and vocabulary of that center. So when I decided to tour in 2012, it suddenly felt as though I'd been working towards something, that I'd arrived at a new place. I sensed it was time to do something I'd never done: A one man show. This performance is from a single night in Des Moines, Iowa, taken right off the console mix, with a couple of room mikes added in. It's live and raw, with no post-production. I love it! It captures not only the spirit of the performance, but also the spirit of where I now live as an artist.”

Lindsey Buckingham: One Man Show – Track Listing

1. Cast Away Dreams
2. Bleed To Love Her
3. Not Too Late
4. Stephanie
5. Come
6. Shut Us Down
7. Go Insane
8. Never Going Back Again
9. Big Love
10. So Afraid
11. Go Your Own Way
12. Trouble
13. Seeds We Sow

Buckingham is concluding his year long trek of sold out solo acoustic shows that have garnered rave reviews across the US. The intimate and stripped down setting on the road has truly displayed the immense talents of this legendary performer.
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Old 11-14-2012, 08:05 AM
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iTunes Best Music ‏@bestnote
iTunes #music_rock #14 album: One Man Show - Lindsey Buckingham http://c69.co/10210140
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Old 11-14-2012, 09:18 PM
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Lindsey Buckingham – One Man Show (2012)
by Nick DeRiso, Something Else Reviews, November 14, 2012
http://somethingelsereviews.com/2012...man-show-2012/

Lindsey Buckingham, on a brilliant new live acoustic album, redefines what’s at stake in his own songs — helping us not just to hear them in a new way, but to feel them in the same new way.

That’s perhaps best heard on this album’s version of “Trouble,” once a No. 9 hit in 1981 and now reborn in this first-ever acoustic live album — done in one take, with no overdubs, from a concert in Des Moines, Iowa on September 1, 2012. Buckingham pulls every piece of the song apart, then reassembles it as something utterly different.

Where he once sounded like he was in on the joke, like he could get past whatever that trouble was, now Buckingham sounds less sure. And that space between cocksure young man and graying middle-age uncertainty gives the song a fresh and thunderous power.

Elsewhere, Buckingham’s pained cries, devastating and nakedly sensual, on “Bleed To Love Her” are bolstered by an insistent guitar figure that pulses like a thrumming heartbeat. “Never Going Back Again,” always an edgy, insulting retort as conveyed within the Fleetwood Mac show, here sounds like a desperately sad admission of guilt over another backslide. “So Afraid” is transformed from a molten expression of fury into something far more complex, with more doubt and less rage.

Buckingham gives similarly raw, starkly heartfelt renditions of “Not Too Late,” the opening cut from his 2006′s solo album Under the Skin, “Come” from Fleetwood Mac’s 2003 effort Say You Will, and — in a special treat — “Stephanie,” a searching, deeply emotional leftover track from 1973′s pre-Fleetwood Mac Buckingham Nicks project.

But those lesser-known cuts, perhaps understandably, hold less emotional resonance than do his radical reworkings of songs we’ve come to know and love — and this is where One Man Show, time and time again, not only delights but intrigues.

Buckingham turns “Go Insane,” once a new wave-inspired No. 23 hit from 1984, into an angular, slow-motion meltdown — the sound of someone hanging by a trembling thread. “Big Love,” in a lean, fleet performance that’s not all that different from his solo turn during Fleetwood Mac’s more recent tours, is given a similarly comprehensive makeover.

He closes this album — issued on Tuesday exclusively via iTunes — with a new version of the title track from 2011′s Seeds We Sow, Buckingham’s best solo effort in years. As hard-eyed and tough as that project could no doubt be, as brave in its unwillingness to concede any damn thing to the sands of time and regret and memory, this new version of “Seeds” provides — once more — its own glimpse into the heart of the matter.

As Buckingham sings about a glowing dream, of being reached for in the middle of the night by a lost love, you sense how hard it is sometimes to keep moving forward. Even when he knows he must.

That Buckingham keeps making that leap, time and time again, whatever the risks, is what makes his work so compulsively enjoyable.
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Old 11-14-2012, 11:24 PM
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^Good review
Trouble isn't my favorite song, but he gave a pretty accurate analogy to the different tones set by the two versions.
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So many retreads.....
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Old 11-15-2012, 01:37 AM
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You know, I'm starting to wonder if he actually added backing tracks that weren't there during the concert onto this album or if I was so infatuated/mind blown/drooling/overpowered by what was in front of my face that I never noticed them in concert... Stephanie definitely sounds different, and I'd say the same for So Afraid. I'm still getting it of course! I will listen and buy all versions of the same song as many times as he wants to put them out!
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You know, I'm starting to wonder if he actually added backing tracks that weren't there during the concert onto this album or if I was so infatuated/mind blown/drooling/overpowered by what was in front of my face that I never noticed them in concert... Stephanie definitely sounds different, and I'd say the same for So Afraid. I'm still getting it of course! I will listen and buy all versions of the same song as many times as he wants to put them out!
There were backing tracks for Stephanie & I'm So Afraid in concert. As for whether or not he tweaked it after recording, well, I wouldn't be able to say.

I've been listening through the album. Of course, it's fabulous just as the show was. But holy delay batman.
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There were backing tracks for Stephanie & I'm So Afraid in concert. As for whether or not he tweaked it after recording, well, I wouldn't be able to say.

I've been listening through the album. Of course, it's fabulous just as the show was. But holy delay batman.
^^ Haha Oh I know there were backing tracks, I think I was just in a "state" at the time

By the way, the vocals are absolutely gorgeous on the album, despite tweaking.
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^^ Haha Oh I know there were backing tracks, I think I was just in a "state" at the time

By the way, the vocals are absolutely gorgeous on the album, despite tweaking.
we could hear the backing-track-only during the pre-soundcheck at The Orange Peel since it was a GA venue and we had to wait in line to get in. GYOW backing track has strumming parts and also a harmony part in the chorus (you can go your own way part).
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Old 11-15-2012, 09:19 PM
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http://www.examiner.com/review/linds...-album?cid=rss

Lindsey Buckingham still going his own way on new live album
ALBUM REVIEW
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
BY: PETER ROCHE

Lindsey Buckingham: One Man Show
Credits: iTunes

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Lindsey Buckingham’s been going his own way ever since he traded in his swimming trunks for guitar. He’s been involved with Fleetwood Mac for thirty-five years, writing and orchestrating now classic albums like Rumours and Tusk with Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie.

But Buckingham has always reserved his more unusual gems for solo albums like Law and Order (1981), Out of the Cradle (1992), and Under the Skin (2006). These albums still boast Lindsey’s uncanny pop sensibility—but their best bits are usually found in the darker, more introspective songs or quirky alterna-tunes that exploit technology (drum machines and synthesizers) or subvert established forms (folk ballads, twelve-bar blues, etc.).

Buckingham released an excellent in-concert disc—Live at the Bass Performance Hall—a couple years back, but it wasn’t until 2011 that he gave longtime backup musicians Neale Heywood and Brett Tuggle a break and struck out alone. Now available exclusively on iTunes, Lindsey Buckingham: One Man Show captures the architect of Mac at a creative peak as he regales Des Moines, Iowa fans with just his voice and guitars.

The digital album offers a baker’s dozen tracks from throughout Buckingham’s prodigious career, from the sparkling instrumental “Stephanie” (from the 1973 Buckingham Nicks LP) to the brooding—then uplifting—title track from last year’s terrific Seeds We Sow. He even tosses in obligatory Mac fave “Go Your Own Way” by playing along with a recording of the song’s subtle (but crucial) contrapuntal rhythm guitar. The technique is used sparingly here, occurring only in spots where Buckingham needs the freedom to embark on one of his sensation lead guitar breaks.

“Thank you for being part of this experiment I’m doing,” Lindsey greets the crowd at Hoyt Sherman Place.

The finger-plucker explains the intimate, coffeehouse-styled shows comprise the next step in the evolution of his solo work—the modest “small machine” (versus Mac’s arena-rock colossus) wherein he funnels his innermost angst and outermost joys. Later, Buckingham surmises his independent work couldn’t have happened without Fleetwood Mac’s success, and notes how both worlds now coexist harmoniously.

The shimmery “Not Too Late” finds the auteur questioning his motives after mulling a newspaper review. “Cast Away Dreams” bemoans another aspect of professional musicianship—extended touring—and the lasting effects on one’s home life.

“Gone away…no I cannot stay,” croons Lindsey. “I hope you understand.”

Originally destined for a solo album in the late 1990’s, “Bleed to Love Her” first appeared on Mac reunion disc The Dance before receiving proper studio treatment on 2003’s Say You Will. Here, the lovelorn piece vibrates with Buckingham’s syncopated finger-picking, and his voice builds to a spine-tingling crescendo.
Buckingham uses the body of his guitar as a percussion instrument on the sinister “Come,” then unleashes an appropriately distorted torrent of solo notes beneath his own thick (electronically triggered) rhythm chords. “So Afraid” employs more of what late acoustic guitarist Michael Hedges described as a“heavy mental” approach, with bass strings growling and treble strings echoing in bold musical measures that sound anything but unplugged.

Lindsey also indulges with three signature pieces. Bouncy Rumours chestnut “Never Going Back Again” benefits from a pretty, delicate new introduction, while artificial harmonics, clinical strumming, and hell-raising vocals transform “Go Insane” into a haunting elegy.

Having already received an acoustic makeover in past concert sets (from its synth-pop beginning on Mac’s Tango in the Night), “Big Love” pulsates schizophrenically as Buckingham veers from a whisper to full-on primal screams.

“I was looking out for love,” he says of the song’s inception. “Not looking for love, but looking out for it—pushing back, defending.

“Now it’s a meditation on the power and importance of change.”

Law and Order hit “Trouble” is re-imagined for the One Man encore, with Lindsey engaging some clever vocal inflections filling the sound with strings that buzz and reverberate in the mix.

Buckingham’s solitary gambit works because the material (so strong and refreshingly different to begin with) really shines without all the bell and whistles. Stripped down to bare essentials, the songs more readily reveal their emotional essences—adorable and ugly—for the candid scrutiny of a one-take, untouched console recording.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/on...ow/id573048858

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Blog Critics.org
http://blogcritics.org/music/article...ngham-one-man/

Lindsay Buckingham is, of course, best known for his work with Fleetwood Mac. But on One Man Show he shows what this reviewer feels is superior emotional intensity and provides a more authentic musical experience for the listener, including his radically different takes on Fleetwood Mac tunes.

This literally is a one man show—just Buckingham and his guitar, done in front of an audience on September 1, 2012 in Des Moines, Iowa. There are no guest artists or extra musicians. None were needed.

Take "Never Going Back Again," which here conveys less anger and more guilt and despair over backsliding and failing to move forward than the famous hit version. This is also true of "So Afraid," and "Go Your Own Way," which reflect more anguish and less anger as well.

This live acoustic recording, released exclusively on November 13 on iTunes, deals a great deal with familiar emotional terrain: loss, dysfunctional relationships, and the mistakes we all make in life.

Lesser known tracks like "Stephanie," "Go Insane," "Come," and "Big Love" all sound here as though Buckingham is literally offering up a piece of his soul to the listener. Perhaps the standout song on the recording is "Seeds We Sow," one of the most honest and heartrending songs of the past decade.

In the press release, Buckingham says, "As an artist, you need to seek out what is essential and discard what is inessential, to always keep an eye on what lives at the center."

This recording does just that.

This is without doubt Buckingham's best solo work so far. To offer radically different versions of songs that fans of his former group know and love, as well as numbers from his solo recordings and to do it live and acoustic without a lot of overdubbing or post-production, takes a lot of courage. Buckingham has taken that chance and he has delivered.
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Lesser known tracks like "Stephanie," "Go Insane," "Come," and "Big Love" all sound here as though Buckingham is literally offering up a piece of his soul to the listener. Perhaps the standout song on the recording is "Seeds We Sow," one of the most honest and heartrending songs of the past decade.
This is the kind of quote that I picture makes the diehard fan revel in its favoritism. How sweet also that the reviewer sites a new song as a standout track rather than a standard like GYOW.
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