What if Tusk had been Rumours 2?

[KenB]

Of the Rumours songs that would be there, I think Think About Me would be there without a doubt. Maybe Angel and Sisters. Lindsey's Tusk songs were the most different, so it is difficult for me to choose one. Walk a Thin Line could be there but with a modified arrangement, more guitar ala NGBA. Other songs might fit, but if they were recorded as a band, not as they were in Lindsey's garage with his shoe boxes.

This is kind of what I meant when I started this thread: Which Tusk songs could have formed a more commercial-sounding Rumours, with or without different production?

Personally I think something like this might have worked:

SIDE 1
1. Angel
2. What Makes You Think You’re the One (with slick production and a less frenzied feel)
3. Over and Over
4. Think About Me
5. Walk a Thin Line (again, with slicker production, maybe along the lines of Lindsey’s songs on Mirage)
6. Sisters of the Moon

SIDE 2
7. Storms
8. That’s Enough for Me (but less “countrified” and more of a full band feel)
9. Honey Hi (with a more rocking tempo. The harmonies here are so good that this could have been a hit single if it had a less intimate arrangement.)
10. Sara
11. Tusk (just the way it is, because there still needs to be a little weirdness)
12. Never Forget

Now not all of these are my FAVORITE Tusk songs — I truly can’t stand Sisters of the Moon and would rather have Beautiful Child as another Stevie song, but this sequence is already a bit ballad-heavy