OMG Stevie wrote a new song with Dave Stewart!!!!

[Christopher]

Well as noted on the Rumours board, Mick was just quoted in an interview saying, knowing this bunch (FM), I think we will take the next 18 months off.
So knowing Stevie, she won't be sitting around doing nothing the next year and a half. It's looking likely that these newly written 4 songs with Dave Stewart are the beginning of Stevie laying down some demos/tracks for a solo project!!! I couldn't be more thrilled!!!

I am also happy she is collaborating (esp. with someone new, even though they some history). It's well known that Stevie has suffered from writers block before, which is why Sandy Stewart was brought in on The Wild Heart, The numerous contributors on RAL, & Rupert Hine, Mike Campell, Rick Nowles, etc. on TOSOTM (on which she only had 2 self-penned tracks.) Stevie needs to be re-energized and find a new spark, I suspect that she been looking to Jimmy Iovine & other colleagues for direction (Tom Petty & Heartbreakers enthusiastically just wrapped recordings for a new CD set for release this summer.) Stevie still remains good friends w/ Iovine, and was spotted at the after grammy Interscope party. Jimmy has been wise with his projects at Interscope, pushing artists as diverse as Gwen Sefani, Mary J Blige, Eminem and many others, to lock themselves in a room/studio with great collaborators, songwriters & producers to get the goods.

I am optimistic that Stevie can and will put out a recording that equals or is even better than TISL, but in a totally different way. And I don't mind if it doesn't have a bunch of rockers (as some have expressed their disappointment that "Everybody Loves You" was not rocking a little at all.), the likely hood of her having a huge commercial success is stacked against her, besides the fact that she does not have anything to prove anymore. At this stage in her career & current voice, I feel she has evolved vocally to become the ultimate torch singer...her voice has become a cross between Nina Simone and latter day Marianne Faithful, And I say let her embrace that side. The Soundstage rendition of "Beauty & the Beast" was minimal and beautiful, "Call On Me For Magic" was a side of Stevie we need to see more of.

Stevie just needs to concentrate on putting out a solo project that is worthy of her legend, and forget about trying to please the commercial equivalents of the moment as she did on TISL by tapping Sheryl, Natalie, Macy, Sarah...you get the picture. She needs to produce a solid project that will earn her critical success unparralled. Most fans are behind her & hungry for new material! Stevie is no longer the Rhiannon of years ago, She is older, wiser....and I feel she needs to record something that reflects where she is now. not yesterday.