Stevie, Lindsey and Christine: all nominees for Songwriters Hall of Fame 2006
 

http://www.therockradio.com/2005/11/...riter-hof.html

Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Pete Townshend for songwriter HoF
The list of nominees for the Songwriters Hall Of Fame class of 2006 is loaded with Rock And Roll Hall Of Famers. The "Performing" section of the ballot includes Who leader Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Kinks leader Ray Davies, Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, current and former Fleetwood Mac members Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, and Christine McVie, and Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati from the Rascals. Also being considered as performers are Leon Russell, Prince, country stars Mac Davis and Merle Haggard, and singer-songwriters Janis Ian and Joe South.

There's also a "Non-Performing" list that includes Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton collaborator Will Jennings, Hair composers Galt McDermott and James Rado, "Philly Soul" architect Thom Bell, and Motown veterans Henry Cosby and Sylvia Moy, among others.

Voters can choose two from the performing list and three from the non-performers, for a total of five. Ballots must be returned by November 15th, and the winners will be inducted next year.

I'm also rooting for the Hair composers! One of my faaaavorite soundtracks evah! :p

Expect Neil Young and Pete Townshend to take the performer slots.

Wooooooooooo!!!
 

YESSSSS!!!!! They spelled Lindsey's name right!!!!!!!!!!! :blob1:

Oh, and yay about the whole songwriter hall of fame thingy. :laugh:

;)

Crap.

Then again, 2 out of 3 for us would have been bad also. Who would we have wanted to win? Stevie? Lindsey? Christine? Maybe it's best they all three don't win then. ;)

i love neil young, so that would make my day. especially if he was escorting homegirl nicks to pick up their trophies. :wavey:

I'd have to say, if pressed, I'd vote for Neil too. He is my favorite songwriter of all time.

You just reminded me of that movie, Treat Williams, oy vey :rolleyes::laugh:

His new album is soooooooooo good. I put it on just to hear his voice, I love it on that thing.

His VOICE??? :lol: OMG. The guy can write, but (IMO) the marble-mouth voice has got to go. Sorry. But, hey, if you dig him then that's all that matters. Not like there's plenty of people who don't get why people like Stevie's voice.

one would think they would provide current info :confused:

http://songwritershalloffame.org/nominees/

Before he joined Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham was sketching out his brand of Brian Wilson-influenced pop with Stevie Nicks in the folky duo Buckingham Nicks. Mick Fleetwood invited the duo to join his band in late 1974. After Buckingham joined, the band's pop tendencies flowered under his direction. Not only did he provide the group with some brilliant, surprisingly dark pop songs, he sharpened the other members' songs with his production, arrangements, and breathtaking guitar playing. Buckingham left the band after their 1987 album, Tango in the Night, to concentrate on his solo work. While Buckingham's solo albums are deceptively simple and calm on the surface, there are complex arrangements and emotions beneath the smooth production. None of them have sold anything approaching the level of Rumours — or even Tango in the Night — yet they are rich, layered pop albums; his first solo record, Law & Order, had a hit single with "Trouble."

As the front-woman for Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks was also one of the group's most prolific writers. Major hit singles like "Dreams" and "Rhiannon" made Nicks a focal point of Fleetwood Mac, and in 1981 she took time off from the group to record her solo debut, Bella Donna, which hit Number One on the strength of the Top 20 hits "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (a duet with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), "Leather and Lace" (a duet with Don Henley) and "Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove)." After a return to Fleetwood Mac for the 1982 album Mirage (which featured her hit "Gypsy"), Nicks released her second solo effort, The Wild Heart, highlighted by the Top Five smash "Stand Back." Rock a Little, which featured the single "Talk to Me," followed in 1985.

Christine McVie is a British-born singer who worked with Spencer Davis in the early '60s and later fronted Chicken Shack before going off on her own with a solo album in 1970. By then she had also contributed to recordings by Fleetwood Mac and become romantically involved with the group's bassist, John McVie. She then married McVie and officially joined the group, for which she has since served as vocalist/keyboardist/songwriter, contributing some of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits. McVie made a second solo album in 1984.

Have you heard Prairie Wind? Neil's really in great voice throughout most of it, although there are a few tracks where he struggles to reach that upper register.

These days, though, I think Neil's voice is at its best when he embraces his lower register and kind of speak-sings on songs like "This Old Guitar," or "Bandit" from Greendale.

I'm with you, Diss, I think Prairie Wind is a great album, and it's one that really grows and sinks in with repeated listenings. I know a lot of folks think it's over-produced, but I really like the horns. And I know a lot of other folks think it's maudlin, but I think Neil is one of very few artists who has really earned the right to bust out that level of sincerity, and I think he really pulls it off on this record.

Now, when's he gonna get out and tour?

Well, in all fairness, I haven't heard the new album. I'm just going from the memory of him singing "keep on roo-ckin' in the free wOOoorrllld..." So maybe his voice is better now? :shrug:

Don't make fun of my boyfriend! :p

If I had to pick only one I'd have to go with Christine. Just because she deserves the recognition for being around the longest, imho... :woohoo: