Band's Mixed Reaction to Tribute Album 1998

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Dallas Morning News, March 1, 1998

Section: THE ARTS


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Thor Christensen, Teresa Gubbins, DavidStaff Writers of The Dallas Morning News
Staff Writers of The Dallas Morning News

Hold it, Mac Rumor has it there's dissent in the Fleetwood Mac camp over Rumours Revisited, an all-star tribute album coming out March 24 on Atlantic Records.

Among the acts remaking songs from Mac's classic 1977 album are Elton John ("Don't Stop"), Shawn Colvin ("The Chain"), the Cranberries ("Go Your Own Way"), Jewel ("You Make Loving Fun"), Matchbox 20 ("Never Going Back Again") and Sister Hazel, who unveiled their version of "Gold Dust Woman" last weekend at Deep Ellum Live.

"The band [Fleetwood Mac] heard it, and they loved it," Sister Hazel member Andrew Copeland told The Dallas Morning News recently.

"That blew us away. " Well, the entire band didn't love it: Stevie Nicks sang an entirely different tune when we asked her about the disc a few months ago.

"I'm not dead, so I don't need to have a tribute album done to me," she said. "That thing was put together way before anybody knew this [reunion] was going to happen. I was not asked. I was not spoken to, and if we could undo that, we would. "

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Staff writers Thor Christensen, Teresa Gubbins, David Okamoto and Mario Tarradell contributed to this report.