blue water Rolling Stone .com
 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/vi...water-20150127

i really like this version of blue water but noticed it sounds so much like moonlight as well.

also how the hell does stevie keep looking so young? she just keeps looking better and better these days.

As much as I love the song Gypsy, I think she did a better job with this performance.

Watch another private Stevie Nicks performance, a stripped-down, solo take on “Blue Water”: http://t.co/YDemQCCQVc

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) January 27, 2015

Rolling Stone's most recent cover story is a long, intimate look into the life of Stevie Nicks. While the issue was coming together, the Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter sat behind a piano and played a handful of songs for our cameras. Above, watch her perform "Blue Water," a meditative track that from last year's 24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault. Lady Antebellum provide harmonies on the record, but here Nicks goes completely solo

During the informal session, she also sang a rare, stripped-down version of "Gypsy" (watch that video here), and in the story she discussed everything from her past drug use to her current tour with Fleetwood Mac.

"We choose to stay," she says of the band. "Because we can't do anything else. None of us are ever going to stand up and say, 'I'm going to make my own choice for the first time in my life, and I'm going away, and I don't know if I'm coming back."


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Now this is surprise. I wonder how many songs were recorded for RS.

Yikes. She isn't playing "Blue Water" like the way she wrote it. She's playing the treble chords for "Moonlight" with the bass line for "Blue Water". Interesting.

Not saying it's bad, and I could see how she'd get confused (since the treble for "Moonlight" is just the reversed treble for both "Blue Water" AND "If You Were My Love") but it still works I guess. It's just that I started (in my head) to sing "Moonlight" before I remembered this was a performance of "Blue Water". Haha! :lol:

I'm not a musician but the chord progression in IYWML sounds identical to those in Blue Water. Am I wrong?

I will listen to this when I get home from work but I'm super happy it's a song from 24K.

smoke and mirrors!:D

nope. she's even said it herself, she writes the same song over and over… she only knows a handful of chords. I think it was Ken Caillat who said she knows like 4 chords but can write you 50 songs with those chords.

These videos are a double-edged sword-- they're cool in showcasing her voice, but they really do highlight her severe limitations as a musician. I think once she goes in to formally record her songs she forgets how to play them… her original demos are generally much better with regards to the piano….though not always.

You're not wrong. The treble for "IYWML" and "Blue Water" ARE the exact same ascending notes...and "Moonlight" is the same notes as well, but reversed and descending.

It's really her choice of bass notes in her demos that make each song sound different...as well as her vocal melody.

Well, it's not news that she's neither a trained musician nor talented piano player, but this is absolutely gorgeous. We get a new stripped down version, and the more fleshed out version from 24KG. :thumbsup:

I wonder if we get another video next Tuesday?

I'm just glad its new, if only so people don't complain about why she did another older song.
it does sound like Moonlight, but Stevie herself said she writes virtually the same song, music-wise. She's admitted that. The changes that ARE there are enough for me, and I think it is genuinely creative in it's own way.

Jamie

Not sure why Blue Water has not been released. Get it on pop and country stations given Lady Antebellum is on it.

Such a beautiful, heartfelt performance. It's amazing how much emotion Stevie can convey with just her voice and her simple piano playing. Further proof that her songs don't need tons of production work to be moving and effective.

Agree completely. Her talent stands on its own, unlike so many other artists who need a lot of flash to compensate for what they are lacking.

The piano playing has me skinning small animals and throwing the pelts at preschool children. Ghastly.

I remember back in college I got the Fleetwood Mac songbook and was trying to teach myself to play some of their songs (my playing is on par with Stevie's, so yeah I never became a world renowned pianist). And I remember the first time I played Gypsy. I was shocked that a song that sounds to totally different all the way through has the same repeating chord progression the entire time with just the bridge to change things up a bit. It's her incredible singing and storytelling, plus Lindsey's sparkling production and those lush background vocals that make the song really shine. But brought down to it's total raw musical base it's not much. It just shows you how much magic Stevie has that she can take something so simple and make something so incredible out of it.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...est_songs.html

Watch Stevie Nicks’ Wrenching, Candid Piano Performance of “Blue Water”
By Sharan Shetty

For the first time in a long time, all is well in Fleetwood Mac land. The band is fully reunited for a self-proclaimed “last act,” and they’ll be going on tour and releasing a new album this year. Of course, the reunion would mean little without Stevie Nicks, and Rolling Stone recently paid obeisance to the singer’s sprawling career with a 7,000-word cover story. The magazine also got Nicks to play some songs in a stripped-down setting, just her and a piano, and her moving, meditative performance of “Blue Water” is well worth a watch.

The song is off 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault, Nicks’ most recent solo album. In case there was any doubt, that voice—twangy, full-throated, clear as a bell—is good as ever.

I've been out of the loop for a while, did I miss something regarding anything official about a new album, or is this just hearsay? Thanks...

start with the first post

I'm so sorry if I'm being an idiot and missing something obvious, but I read through again and didn't see anything referencing the bolded journalist's quote above about a new Fleetwood Mac album coming out this year. :sorry:

Your not being an idiot. Oliver just doesn't extend those olive branches 😄

you'll need to up your meds............. Seriously!

Blue Water
 

Does anyone know where the video of Stevie's piano version that shows her looking at the cameraman and shaking her head "no",like"back up" is?I wanted to show this particular one to my sister,and I know I saw it but can't remember where.Thanks guys.

Thanks Welcomechris!No wonder I couldn't find it - I could've sworn it was Blue Water...:rolleyes:

Blue Water was the other one she did for Rolling Stone, so that's probably why you got them mixed up. ;)

No problem :cool:

We all have those days :lol:

Has anyone been able to make an mp3 of this?

~Maria

Love this. Love watching her, but that DARN shirt. I want to see something else. She is such a style icon, I keep waiting for something new. Maybe she is bored with fashion. I'm like her. I wear the same thing over and over, but I'm not famous. I still love her.

I love love love this.

This coming from the person that started an entire thread to say that they were leaving the Ledge for good.:laugh:

There are things she could wear over and over that are more flattering.

Michele

But she would have that dress surgically removed.

I'm not a big fan of her solo piano performances, but she did a good job performing Blue Water.

I came back for the entertainment