Stevie Recording A New Album With Dave Stewart Producing In Nashville...

[Phil]

Originally posted by BlueDenimLamp:
Has Stevie Nicks been working on a new album?
While representatives are keeping tight-lipped, reports have been circulating on the Internet. There have been strong rumors that the singer is finally returning to the recording studio working on a what might be a back-to-roots album.
According to a source, rumors of Stevie Nicks (from Fleetwood Mac) working in recording studio are true, with as many as eight songs having been put to tape. “It’s still in the early stages,” “She’s got security on the doors to ensure no-one hears a whisper,” a source said.
Stevie Nicks is rumoured to be planning a worldwide tour at the end of 2015. When contacted, a representative had no information on a new album, or any of the singer’s future plans. This isn’t the first time in recent memory reports have surfaced about Stevie Nicks recording sessions. Fans will be anxiously awaiting...

Now that we have Dave's tweet about 15 songs 'n' all, this might seem irrelevant, but I should point out that the above information is most likely bogus. If you type any artist's name in Google, enquiring about a new album, the exact information comes up about a "back-to-roots album", "security on the doors" and "a worldwide tour". I am confident that these particular details have not emanated from those involved in the Nashville recording sessions.

PS Michele, I've also wondered about whether Sharon and Lori have been present for these sessions, but suspect that their contributions might come later. It's great to think this album will be knocked out at full pelt and then released, but I suspect major tweaking/re-writing and (three-part) vocal harmonies will come into play further down the road.

[MikeInNV]

Originally Posted by Phil

Now that we have Dave's tweet about 15 songs 'n' all, this might seem irrelevant, but I should point out that the above information is most likely bogus. If you type any artist's name in Google, enquiring about a new album, the exact information comes up about a "back-to-roots album", "security on the doors" and "a worldwide tour". I am confident that these particular details have not emanated from those involved in the Nashville recording sessions.

PS Michele, I've also wondered about whether Sharon and Lori have been present for these sessions, but suspect that their contributions might come later. It's great to think this album will be knocked out at full pelt and then released, but I suspect major tweaking/re-writing and (three-part) vocal harmonies will come into play further down the road.

Yep. Someone found the exact same article with Madonna's name in place of Stevie's.

[BombaySapphire3]

Originally Posted by Bandon

Quick recording. I hope it's not fast food quality.

With this one I have a feeling there isn't going to be any middle ground.IMO it will be really great or...an entire album of "Cheaper than Frees"

[BlueLight]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

With this one I have a feeling there isn't going to be any middle ground.IMO it will be really great or...an entire album of "Cheaper than Frees"

Let's hope the former!!

Now that we know there are 15 songs recorded and counting, I wonder how many of them will be vault songs? Has Stevie ever stated whether there are any vault songs she'd like to record and release? I'd love to get The Dealer, All The Beautiful Worlds (which I believe she recorded for SYW), If You Were My Love, and Julia.

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by elle

i think i hear my name being called ?

Dave lately always makes the whole album worth of songs from scratch in Nashville with his wrecking crew, in 1-2 weeks.

so........ let's see how many of these 15 songs are co-writes before deciding to shut up naysayers. if they are all written by SN only, then yes, i will gladly agree with you.

and if they do have that many songs i agree with Stew they probably do plan some for FM.

ok, since pics of Linds and Chris started popping up in the media at the same time, i'll leave you all alone to enjoy here since i have my own little FM corner where i can be very happy too.

Most of Stevie's IYD tracks already existed as poems before Dave's involvement - "You May Be The One", "Wide Sargasso Sea" and "Italian Summer" we already know were poems pre-Dave. "For What It's Worth" could date back as far as 94/95, "Secret Spell" and "Moonlight" were old songs, "My Heart" was a TISL outtake, "In Your Dreams" was born out of a jam session in the studio.

The only songs that we know were absolutely written by Stevie and Dave co-writing together are "Cheaper Than Free" and "Everybody Loves You". The majority of Dave's work on the album was production and adding melody to already written poems.

There's absolutely no reason why Stevie couldn't have a bunch of new songs up her sleave or why she can't reach into the vaults for some demo's that never made an album. Most likely, the new album will be a combination of new songs with some old demo's thrown in, just like everything she's done since 1994 has been.

[BlueLight]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

Most of Stevie's IYD tracks already existed as poems before Dave's involvement - "You May Be The One", "Wide Sargasso Sea" and "Italian Summer" we already know were poems pre-Dave. "For What It's Worth" could date back as far as 94/95, "Secret Spell" and "Moonlight" were old songs, "My Heart" was a TISL outtake, "In Your Dreams" was born out of a jam session in the studio.

The only songs that we know were absolutely written by Stevie and Dave co-writing together are "Cheaper Than Free" and "Everybody Loves You". The majority of Dave's work on the album was production and adding melody to already written poems.

There's absolutely no reason why Stevie couldn't have a bunch of new songs up her sleave or why she can't reach into the vaults for some demo's that never made an album. Most likely, the new album will be a combination of new songs with some old demo's thrown in, just like everything she's done since 1994 has been.

I think Stevie wrote FWIW in 2009/2010, while she was in Hawaii with Lori and her niece.

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by BlueLight

I think Stevie wrote FWIW in 2009/2010, while she was in Hawaii with Lori and her niece.

I was going by the fact that it's about Russ on the Street Angel tour, but you're possibly right.
Edit: Yes, because there's footage of it being written in the hotel room on the IYD doc

Looking at the writing credits on IYD, Stevie wrote the lyrics to everything. Dave is credited with a co-writing credit for writing or co-writing the music on "In Your Dreams", "Wide Sargasso Sea", "Moonlight" (chorus only), "Everybody Loves You", "Ghosts Are Gone", "You May Be The One", "Italian Summer" and "Cheaper Than Free".

That means that 8 out of the 13 tracks (14 if you include "My Heart") were created during or specifically for IYD.

We already know that WSS, Moonlight, You May Be The One and Italian Summer were already written as poems before Dave's involvement. Everybody Loves You was a 4 line chorus that Stevie wrote verses to accompany. IYD came out of Jam session and was very much a group effort.

Sorry, but I fail to see how Elle could possibly have any point when making a claim like "Stevie doesn't have any songs" since well over half her last album was already done by the time Dave Stewart touched it, and the majority of her songs on the last Fleetwood Mac album were new. She may be older and have slowed down the amount that she writes, but that hardly means she has nothing.

[BlueDenimLamp]

Originally Posted by BlueLight

I think Stevie wrote FWIW in 2009/2010, while she was in Hawaii with Lori and her niece.

May 27 2010 from the "IYD" DVD...

[BlueLight]

Originally Posted by BlueDenimLamp

May 27 2010 from the "IYD" DVD...

YES! I was struggling with where I got that bit of info!

[BlueLight]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

I was going by the fact that it's about Russ on the Street Angel tour, but you're possibly right.
Edit: Yes, because there's footage of it being written in the hotel room on the IYD doc

Looking at the writing credits on IYD, Stevie wrote the lyrics to everything. Dave is credited with a co-writing credit for writing or co-writing the music on "In Your Dreams", "Wide Sargasso Sea", "Moonlight" (chorus only), "Everybody Loves You", "Ghosts Are Gone", "You May Be The One", "Italian Summer" and "Cheaper Than Free".

That means that 8 out of the 13 tracks (14 if you include "My Heart") were created during or specifically for IYD.

We already know that WSS, Moonlight, You May Be The One and Italian Summer were already written as poems before Dave's involvement. Everybody Loves You was a 4 line chorus that Stevie wrote verses to accompany. IYD came out of Jam session and was very much a group effort.

Sorry, but I fail to see how Elle could possibly have any point when making a claim like "Stevie doesn't have any songs" since well over half her last album was already done by the time Dave Stewart touched it, and the majority of her songs on the last Fleetwood Mac album were new. She may be older and have slowed down the amount that she writes, but that hardly means she has nothing.

Agreed - IYD (and to a similar extent, TISL), was such a refreshing return to form, particularly given that Stevie basically had nothing new to bring to the table for SA.

[BlueDenimLamp]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

I was going by the fact that it's about Russ on the Street Angel tour, but you're possibly right.
Edit: Yes, because there's footage of it being written in the hotel room on the IYD doc

Looking at the writing credits on IYD, Stevie wrote the lyrics to everything. Dave is credited with a co-writing credit for writing or co-writing the music on "In Your Dreams", "Wide Sargasso Sea", "Moonlight" (chorus only), "Everybody Loves You", "Ghosts Are Gone", "You May Be The One", "Italian Summer" and "Cheaper Than Free".

That means that 8 out of the 13 tracks (14 if you include "My Heart") were created during or specifically for IYD.

We already know that WSS, Moonlight, You May Be The One and Italian Summer were already written as poems before Dave's involvement. Everybody Loves You was a 4 line chorus that Stevie wrote verses to accompany. IYD came out of Jam session and was very much a group effort.

Sorry, but I fail to see how Elle could possibly have any point when making a claim like "Stevie doesn't have any songs" since well over half her last album was already done by the time Dave Stewart touched it, and the majority of her songs on the last Fleetwood Mac album were new. She may be older and have slowed down the amount that she writes, but that hardly means she has nothing.

It's been four years since she started recording "IYD" so if she only wrote 1 song every 2 or 3 months she could easily have 15 or 20 new songs written...Personally I think she worked on getting some really polished demos ready before she went to Nashville...If any of these songs are intended for FM I think Dave will handle the production with LB having minimal impact...

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by BlueLight

Agreed - IYD (and to a similar extent, TISL), was such a refreshing return to form, particularly given that Stevie basically had nothing new to bring to the table for SA.

I still love "Street Angel" though. Mostly.

Originally Posted by BlueDenimLamp

It's been four years since she started recording "IYD"

Don't ever say that again. Where the hell does the time go? It'll be 3 years in June I got to meet the great lady Nicks in person

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by elle

i think i hear my name being called ?

Dave lately always makes the whole album worth of songs from scratch in Nashville with his wrecking crew, in 1-2 weeks.

so........ let's see how many of these 15 songs are co-writes before deciding to shut up naysayers. if they are all written by SN only, then yes, i will gladly agree with you.

and if they do have that many songs i agree with Stew they probably do plan some for FM.

ok, since pics of Linds and Chris started popping up in the media at the same time, i'll leave you all alone to enjoy here since i have my own little FM corner where i can be very happy too.

i'm curious why the songs have to be written by Stevie only, no co-writes? Christine is co-writing a block of songs with Lindsey, which is no different to Stevie working with Dave.

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

i'm curious why the songs have to be written by Stevie only, no co-writes? Christine is co-writing a block of songs with Lindsey, which is no different to Stevie working with Dave.

Christine's co-writes were some of the greatest songs she ever recorded and "Hold Me" is a brilliant example of Christine/Lindsey co-write.

Stevie writing songs for a FM album with Dave is only like Chris writing songs with Eddy for Tango

[Christopher]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

Ok so how did Edge of Seventeen one of the most spectacular rock songs ever written by a woman and Rooms on Fire one of the her best self penned singles end up on solo records....meanwhile on Tango she forced the band to make do with a single written by someone else?

First of all, If, and that's a big IF, FM had recorded "Edge Of Seventeen", there is no way they would have allowed the song to have a running time of 5:28, they would've butchered her verses and the song wouldn't be as epic as it is. Secondly, it most definitely wouldn't have been as rockin' & awesome as it was on "Bella Donna", considering the light pop (50-era inspired) production of "Mirage". Also, EO17 is perfection as it is, I don't think Lindsey would have known what to do with that song, or improved upon it.
And I'm sure you know this, but "Rooms On Fire" was written after TITN was in the can.

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

Most of Stevie's IYD tracks already existed as poems before Dave's involvement - "You May Be The One", "Wide Sargasso Sea" and "Italian Summer" we already know were poems pre-Dave. "For What It's Worth" could date back as far as 94/95, "Secret Spell" and "Moonlight" were old songs, "My Heart" was a TISL outtake, "In Your Dreams" was born out of a jam session in the studio.

The only songs that we know were absolutely written by Stevie and Dave co-writing together are "Cheaper Than Free" and "Everybody Loves You". The majority of Dave's work on the album was production and adding melody to already written poems.

There seems to be this assumption that Dave came up with all the melodies on their IYD collaborations. Yes, he certainly lead her by launching into chord progressions, but she sang along, as she has said in a sing song-y (melodic) way, based on what he was playing. If you watch the IYD doc, while they are writing "You May Be the One", Stevie is singing her poem floating a melody (which is very similar) to what ended up being the melody of the final song. Remember Dave is credited with music, Stevie with lyrics, somewhere in between they both contributed to melody & probably Stevie shaped that more often than Dave, jsut by the simple fact these were her lyrics/poems that had to fit within the meter of what he was playing. It's ludicurious to believe it's black and white. Songwriting, like any other art is not black and white.