Yeah, what Les said.
I definitely rate Cradle as his best finished work, with or without Fleetwood Mac, and this is coming from someone who loves Tusk. Tusk only wasn't the quintessential Lindsey Buckingham masterpiece because it had the distraction of the other singer/songwriters. Pull Lindsey's songs out and you have what essentially is his first solo album. I'm not saying the other stuff isn't good, though I would have done without the boredom of Beautiful Eyes and Brown Eyes. In fact, Sara is one of my favorite songs.
Lindsey is a complete musical artist with or without Fleetwood Mac. I'm not sure you can say that about the others.
I too grieve for the end of his solo career, if indeed it has ended. I would have preferred a solo album to Say You Will, but I'll take what I can get. Who knows, may there will still be another Lindsey solo album at some point.
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