The New Album Thread

[elle]

this is old, but i don't remember reading that last part about him and Christine and how they work together. (if it was posted somewhere already, feel free to consolidate.)

http://www.k-hits.com/news/music-new...album-sessions

Lindsey Buckingham sheds light on Fleetwood Mac album sessions
Oct. 17, 2014


Prior to Fleetwood Mac hitting the road, Lindsey Buckingham spent time turning Christine McVie's recent piano and vocal demos into new Fleetwood Mac tracks, which will form the basis of the band's first new album with McVie in 27 years. Although Mac has released both a 2012 EP and 2003 album Say You Will in McVie absence, the fact remains that the group's last album with McVie -- 1987's Tango In The Night -- remains their biggest seller behind 1977's blockbuster, Rumours.

Buckingham spoke about the new work to The Wall Street Journal and explained how this project is different than the rest: "Christine and I were able to concentrate on each other. We were exploring some new turf. That became enlightening to me. . . We never envisioned finishing the album in the short term. We set it aside. Stevie (Nicks) will come in and participate. I have material I had been working on. There’s no danger that it will slip between the tracks. It’s too profound to."

As the two main instrumentalists for Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie shared a particularly unique bond -- one that was only strengthened over the years when Buckingham contributed so fiercely to the productions of her classic tracks for the band: "Christine and I, who are two musicians, who are every well grounded in their craft, have a kind of symmetry of respect and love for each other on a creative and a musical level. And I think that was a big part of that whole being greater than the sum of the parts was at that time. I could do for her -- I did for Stevie, too -- but the fact that she could fuse her sensibilities into my stuff and I could tap into what I do as a producer, say, and give back so much to her.”

Fleetwood Mac tour dates (subject to change):

October 18 - Toronto, ON - Air Canada Centre
October 19 - Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena
October 21 - Indianapolis, IN - Bankers Life Fieldhouse
October 22 - Auburn Hills, MI - The Palace Of Auburn Hills
October 25 - Boston, MA - TD Garden
October 26 - Ottawa, ON - Canadian Tire Centre
October 29 - Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
October 31 - Washington, D.C. - Verizon Center
November 1 - Hartford, CT - XL Center
November 4 - Calgary, AB - Scotiabank Saddledome
November 10 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre
November 12 - Saskatoon, SK - Credit Union Centre
November 15 - Edmonton, AL - Rexall Place
November 18 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena
November 20 - Tacoma, WA - Tacoma Dome
November 22 - Portland, OR - Moda Center
November 24 - Sacramento, CA - Sleep Train Arena
November 25 - San Jose, CA - SAP Center At San Jose
November 28, 29 - Inglewood, CA - The Forum
December 2 - San Diego, CA - Viejas Arena
December 3 - Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena
December 6 - Inglewood, CA - The Forum
December 10 - Phoenix, AZ - US Airways Center
December 12 - Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
December 14 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
December 15 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center
December 17 - Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena
December 19 - Sunrise, FL - BB&T Center
December 20 - Tampa, FL - Tampa Bay Times Forum
January 16 - Saint Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center
January 17 - Lincoln, NE - Pinnacle Bank Arena
January 20 - Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Arena
January 22 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden Arena
January 24 - Atlantic City, NJ - Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall
January 25 - Uniondale, NY - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
January 28 - Providence, RI - Dunkin' Donuts Center
January 31 - Buffalo, NY - First Niagara Center
February 3 - Toronto, ON - Air Canada Centre
February 5 - Montreal, QC - Bell Centre
February 7 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
February 8 - Newark, NJ - Prudential Center
February 11 - Des Moines, IA - Wells Fargo Arena
February 12 - Milwaukee, WI - BMO Harris Bradley Center
February 14 - Rosemont, IL - Allstate Arena
February 17 - Louisville, KY - KFC Yum! Center
February 18 - Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
March 1 - Austin, TX - Frank Erwin Center
March 7 - Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Cable Arena
March 8 - Knoxville, TN - Thompson-Boling Arena
March 11 - North Little Rock, AR - Verizon Arena
March 12 - Oklahoma City, OK - Chesapeake Energy Arena
March 15 - Charlottesville, VA - John Paul Jones Arena (JPJ Arena)
March 17 - Greensboro, NC - Greensboro Coliseum
March 18 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
March 27 - St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center
March 28 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center
March 31 - Wichita, KS - Intrust Bank Arena

Side Notes:

In May 2013 Fleetwood Mac released the Extended Play EP, featuring the first new music from the band in a decade. Three of the four tracks -- the Lindsey Buckingham-written, "Sad Angel," "It Takes Time" and "Miss Fantasy," were co produced by Buckingham and studio veteran Mitchell Froom.

The fourth track is a vintage Stevie Nicks song -- "Without You" -- which was produced by Buckingham and Nicks and is a remake of an early Buckingham Nicks track that was slotted for the duo's planned second album. The track was long forgotten by the pair until Nicks rediscovered the song via YouTube.

Fleetwood Mac's last full-length studio album, Say You Will, was released on April 15th, 2003 and peaked at Number Three on the Billboard 200 album charts.

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