Mick Fleetwood & Jeremy Spencer!!

[SteveMacD]

This may be old news by now, but since I've not seen it before:

For 35 years Mick Fleetwood has been the drummer in the galactic rock band Fleetwood Mac and has collaborated with co-producer, writer, vocalist and guitarist Todd Smallwood and is the latest ‘find’ in Hall of Famer Fleetwood’s career. Smallwood has spent most of his career working quietly with the likes of luminaries like Jackson Browne, Chaka Khan, Gregg Allman and Gladys Knight.

This surprising and refreshing album is extremely different to Fleetwood Mac stuff and one of the best tracks is ‘Looking Into You’ the Jackson Browne track from his eponymous first album. Sharing vocals with Smallwood is Lauren Evans who seems set to be another star in the making, while Fleetwood also reunites with one time Fleetwood Mac guitarist Jeremy Spencer for the first time in over 30 years, while the ‘Mac’ part of the legendary band John McVie also makes an appearance on the cheerful ‘No Borders’

It’s very hard to pigeon hole this album, and Fleetwood Mac it certainly isn’t, and there’s all sorts of influences seeping through the fabric as it were such as the jungle style ‘Passion’ as well as some definite country music influences.

Although it’s not an immediate type of CD, several plays reveals a well crafted album of superbly played music, with as you’d expect drums brought very much to the fore and I’d have to say that ‘Something Big’ is well worth a listen.