Dave mentions Stevie's "forthcoming album" in new Billboard article

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Originally Posted by APerfectLie

When he says huge, I don't think he means Lady Gaga huge. Huge in a Stevie Nicks 2010 way. And of course Soundstage didn't sell a whole lot. It brought in some sales and had its perks, but it was nothing new and the album itself was lacking immensely. Landslide, Sara, Stand Back, and If Anyone Falls were the only Stevie hits on the album. Us die hard fans were longing for new stuff and the casual fans looked at it and said, what?! No Rhiannon? No Edge of Seventeen? No Dreams?? No Gold Dust Woman? I liked what Stevie did with Soundstage and how she decided to put some not so well known songs on it, but I think the album fell short with the fact that it had so few songs on it and several covers. And the DVD was great too, but the DVD was more expensive and a lot of non-hardcore Stevie fans don't want to take the time or money to pay 15-20 dollars and watch a 2 hour show. However, I think new material would do a lot better seeing as all the hardcore fans will buy it and casual fans will be more open to buying it because it is new instead of it being a live CD that is lacking their favorites. But I do agree that VH1 should team up with her again. Or Apple. If she could get her name plastered all over iTunes and have one of her songs played in an iPhone commercial, it could work wonders.

I completely disagree with you on some points. The casual fan has plenty of options (product) to obtain the popular songs. If they are a causal fan then they probably already have those songs, likely on more than one CD. Most people were indifferent to Soundstage Sessions because they've seen and heard it all before...in better form.

The premise that more of her popular songs weren't on the album was the reason her live album didn't sell more is faulty. In fact, her well-known songs have suffered for being over-exposed and over-done. If she included new, inspired original material (aside from the cover songs), at least it would have been a success from an artisic perspective. Perhaps one of the new songs could have been a hit, thus redefining Stevie as a current force. Alas, she's driven a limited amount of her signiture songs into the ground. Most artists of her age and career length do give credence to the songs that made them famous, but they don't hold on to them for dear life -- they move on artistically and create new signiture songs, something new to redefine themselves. Stevie has stagnated, both musically and in image for the last decade or so...just coasting on a small collection of old well-worn songs.

It's kind of sad to see her try to maintain the image of who she was when she was in her twenties, like the twirls everyone expects her to do in her sixites. It's so expected and so reduntant...we've seen this act a million times before. It's not reasonable to expect her to sell as much as she did in during her heyday in the eighties, but it's time to move on.