Time for 24KG 2
 

With the FM members releasing a new album it is time for Stevie to do 24KG2. She will be coming off a successful solo tour with plenty of critical acclaim and popularity.

I would love that.

I hope so. Releasing a part 2 right after such a successful tour might boost sales enough to prove to her that making records is worth it:nod:. Plus i really want her to record more demos, especially my favorite, Julia.

I don't, if she records 24K Part 2 she proves that she can't, or isn't interested in writing new songs anymore.

What do you want, "The Kennedys"? Unless Dave Stewart and Mike Campbell are available, there won't be any original Stevie compositions coming our way anytime soon.

She does not have a contract to fulfill. If she does this, I will be mad she did not participate and make a FM album. That certainly would have sold better.

I'd like to see 24g 2 with:

City of Hope
Julia
Sanctuary
One More Tomorrow
Chanel Chanel
It's Not A Dream
Baby Doll
Something Exquisite
Jimmy Come Back
Tied Up In Promises

I think the biggest letdown in the final chapters of FM and Stevie's careers would be to see the incredibly creative and beautiful songs of hers that are still unreleased stay in the vault forever. The way to solve this is to have at least one more fast session in Nashville with the wrecking crew and get them out there. In a box set if need be. That would be Stevie's crowning achievement, leaving a legacy that no other female singer songwriter can match. Whether they sell tons is not the point. It is to stay relevant and cement your place in the history books all at once.

She needs to do a musical about Rhiannon (forget the ballet). Her songs for that effort are so ripe for a Broadway show.... Birds of Rhiannon and Forest of the Black Roses and even the ones she's already done here and there.. Rhiannon, Sisters, etc.

She can't re-record most of them now because her voice is just too changed with age...her voice was in exquisite form when she recorded the demos, but they are too beautiful to leave sitting in a box in a storage unit in Phoenix. (and way better than claptrap like Tied up in Promises)

C'mon, girl, make it happen!

If she won't do a FM album, then I'd prefer her do a sequel album than just cash grab tour after tour.

Hell, we still have some tracks that could do with some updating; Gold & Braid, Mirror Mirror, Julia, Joan of Arc, Baby Doll, ect ect.

In fact, skip the stupid FM world tour and focus on your own career now, Stevie. This is your time. FM is over. Record and release great stuff and go out with a bang as Stevie Nicks.

You are absolutely correct. She is without a record label. In fact, the only reason the 24 Karat Gold record was made is that she had a deadline to turn in the final solo record of her contact with Reprise/Warner Records. She needed to make an album QUICK, thus the move to work with Nashville musicians and cut songs that she already had in her "vault".

I'm sorry to say, but Stevie has NO INTENTION of recording these days. She's recently stated herself that she doesn't write that many songs anymore, and that she doesn't want to record because records don't sell. In her mind, she's accumulated plenty of legendary recordings in her back catalog to tour forever. That's exactly her plan.

And she'll keep guesting on other artist's recordings so she doesn't foot the bill for the studio. It also keeps her "legend among artists" status going. She's got what works for her figured out. It may not make us all happy, but she is and that's what matters to her. I'll keep seeing her sets and FM sets as long as they keep mixing it up a little.

And hopefully it drops the same day as Lindsey and Chris's album. Buckingham McWho? :laugh: oh the shade of it all...

Though Stevie's album sales aren't particularly stellar, I can guarantee she would outsell their album if it were to be released at the same time.. Stevie has become more so a part of pop culture than the others, so an album would naturally be received more readily.