Will the Country World fully accept Stevie?

[singertobe]

Originally Posted by sorcerer999

I'm confused. Are you implying that 24 K Gold: Songs from the Vault is going to be a country album?

WHOAH! Ok, its official. I've been away from this site WAY too long! Is this the name of her new album?

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by singertobe

WHOAH! Ok, its official. I've been away from this site WAY too long! Is this the name of her new album?

That's what Stevie said the working title for the album was during her BMI Icon Award speech.

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

My assumption was that this is going to be a heavily-leaning country inspired album
I absolutely depise the dreadful title; so cliched, presumptous and pedestrian. Was any thought and effort made at all to come up with a more imaginative/unique title?
The last thing I want her to do is to rehash her old material (other than re-release her back cataglog, cleaned up and with lots of bonus material).

Why would you assume this to be a country album? I'm ODing on demos. I have been listening to them almost nonstop and I don't think it's going to be country at all. What I'm getting is heavily atmospheric music with a Cat Stevens vibe, who I think was a bigger influence on her than anybody ever imagined. This album will sound like classic Stevie Nicks in my opinion with edge of darkness.

P.S. Sheryl Crows country album tanked. It only sold 65,000. In Your Dreams sold better.

[BombaySapphire3]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

Why would you assume this to be a country album? I'm ODing on demos. I have been listening to them almost nonstop and I don't think it's going to be country at all. What I'm getting is heavily atmospheric music with a Cat Stevens vibe, who I think was a bigger influence on her than anybody ever imagined. This album will sound like classic Stevie Nicks in my opinion with edge of darkness.

P.S. Sheryl Crows country album tanked. It only sold 65,000. In Your Dreams sold better.

People assume it will be country because the recording studio is in Nashville which IMO is kind of silly.Christine recorded her 1984 album in Switzerland and I don't hear any yodeling on it.I just wish Dave would put up a 30 second snippetof a song to put that idea to rest.Not to mention that I'm dying to hear how it does sound!

[jkmaletic]

Originally Posted by FM77

Answer: who gives a ****?

Stevie doesn't need Nashville. Now or ever.

LOL.

Of course they'd accept her.

The only person I can think of that country didn't accept was k.d. Lang, and that was their loss.

Jamie

[singertobe]

Originally Posted by BlueDenimLamp

The "RealStevieNicks" twitter is a complete FRAUD!!! It was set up by Clayton Morris and the account info was given to Stevie or someone in her inner circle...
The info was then stolen or the account was hacked after which someone started tweeting first as Stevie then as Karen after people knew it was not Stevie...
This upset Stevie to the point that she issued her hand written "I DO NOT TWEET" letter...


The "RealStevieNicks" has not tweeted since July 18 2010 the day before Stevie issued her "I DO NOT TWEET" letter...

As far as the "verified" Stevie Nicks twitter goes I highly doubt Stevie has anything to do with it or even has a clue as to who @StevieNicks is following and whoever is doing the tweeting is completely clueless about how it should be used...Here's a perfect example...The Stevie twitter has not tweeted about hew new album or her ICON award or about the PSA she did to raise awareness about homeless veterans but they just tweeted about a tambourine Stevie signed for the "Tazzy Fund" which last time I knew was chaired by Mike Campbell and his wife...While it may be fun to see who the account is following and try and make a "Stevie" connection I don't see the @StevieNicks twitter as much more than a novelty right now...If Stevie herself were to start tweeting then I might take it seriously...

Its strange because Lindsey actually tweeted to @realstevienicks as if it really was her. Did even HE not know?

[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by nicole21290

I like playing Stevie country connections. Has anyone checked out who her official twitter follows before? I have. There's some fun things in there, including a fair number of country connections. See?

John McBride - Sound engineer and so on. Co-owns and works at Blackbird Studio in Nashville. Martina McBride’s husband.

Phoenix Stone - Nashville-based country musician that I wasn’t aware of. Had to laugh at the lyrics of ‘Radio On’, which even has a lovely Johnny & June reference.

Little Texas - Country music band founded in Nashville in 1988. Signed to Warner Bros. in 1991.

Jessie Baylin - A fun fact. The Sheryl Crow account that the @realstevinicks account (which, btw, I'm 99% sure was run by the same person who runs @lndsybuckingham) follows? Follows Jessie. The official Stevie account? Follows Jessie. Jessi Nicks? Follows Jessie. And Jessie’s husband, in fact. Some more fun facts? Jessie Baylin is based in Nashville, is married to a member of Kings of Leon, has worked and written with Norah Jones a lot, had Waddy play on her third album, has worked with Dave Stewart, and has covered 'Storms' and adores Stevie. She’s also friends with John Mayer, and said this:

"My friend John Mayer once told me, “Just write. Write as much as you possibly can. All the time.” Also, John knows I love Stevie Nicks, and one day when he knew he was going to see her, he bought a Moleskine for her to sign. He told her, “I know this girl who loves you and I really feel like you’re going to inspire her if you sign this. She’ll fill it up.” He then sent it to me with a note that said, “To help you on your way…” I opened it up and it said, “With love, Stevie.” The day I received the signed Moleskine, I wrote “The Glitter.”" [a song about her experiences on first moving to LA, lol]

She posted this on Twitter/Tumblr, replied to THIS on twitter, and her husband tweeted THIS to her when someone tweeted it to him, ha.

Sunny Sweeney - Nashville based country musician. Stevie is a hero to her.

CMT

Sarah Buxton - Country music artist based in Nashville. Keith Urban recorded a co-written song of hers called Stupid Boy - at the request of Nicole Kidman, and another called Put You In A Song. She’s also co-written several songs which have appeared on the TV show Nashville (which Callie Khouri - who happens to have known Carol Ann Harris back in the day - runs). Interestingly, Stevie was one of her heroes growing up:

“Stevie’s lyrics were like poetry,” explains Sarah, “so I started to write poetry of my own … full of angst, and confusion. And the more I became interested in artistry and disinterested in school activities, the more nervous my poor mother became!”

"At my high school, a group of my friends sang “The Chain,” which is a Fleetwood Mac song and I came home raving about it and my mom went to the record store and bought me Rumors, which is something she never did so it was very strange, I heard the album and immediately was like “Oh my God! That’s way better than what I just heard at the talent show!” I’ve always been a lyric reader and I guess it was the way they wrote the lyrics on there and just a name in bold at the top and I saw “Dreams – Nicks.” So I thought, wow, “Stevie Nicks” wrote that. There was something about the way she puts a melody with a lyric that made me just realize the personalness of it and realized that I’ve been writing in journals and poetry my whole life so why not put music to it?”

She’s even had the chance to chat with two of the members of Fleetwood Mac, who helped start her on this songwriting journey. “I met Lindsey Buckingham a few weeks ago and told him the whole story about ‘Showtime,’” she recalls. “I also met Stevie Nicks that summer after my senior year. I actually got to have a conversation with her that made me go, ‘You know, she’s just a person who made it happen. I better go do something, too.’”

After graduating high school, Sarah apparently got the chance to meet Stevie, who encouraged her to pursue music and move to Nashville. As per Sarah’s twitter: all hail the high priestess!

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And because it's amusing information to have and my curiosity got the better of me the other day... Here's some other musicians she follows:

Dave Stewart

Rod Stewart

Pink

Jacqui Sandell - Appeared on Season 4 of The Voice, and covered Dreams. Stevie’s twitter account even praised her for it.

Alexia - Musician. She’s from Arizona.

Res - As per her twitter, “Lamont’s daughter, singer, songwriter and music selector. I am 1/2 of Idle Warship.” Her Stevie connection? Her most recent project was called Refried Mac.

Mindy White - Musician who who is a former member of Arizona-based indie rock band Lydia and current lead vocalist of the band States. Born in Houston and moved to Nashville at the age of five. Still based in Nashville, according to her Twitter account. She digs Stevie and her and friend Juliet Simms (best known for The Voice, I guess) gushed over her in the comments section, lol.

Joy Valencia - LA based musician who studied music production and engineering. Independent artist.

Paul Draper - Liverpudlian musician, songwriter and producer, best known for his work with rock band Mansun. Lived in Memphis and Nashville for some time in the 00s.

Darren Hayes - Australian singer/songwriter, best known as half of Savage Garden. He LOVES Stevie. Like really. He saw FM on the SYW tour and wrote this about it for an online blog:

On a personal note, I saw Fleetwood Mac in concert on Saturday night at Earls Court and finally met my goddess Stevie Nicks. I have been a fan of Stevie’s since I was probably 10 years old when my sister got me into Fleetwood and subsequently all of Stevie’s solo material. In fact, the reason I wrote with Rick Nowels last time was because of his work on Stevie’s Rock A Little album. If you look at the credits on ‘Spin’ you’ll see I quote ‘Sara’ on there actually as a dedication to Stevie’s influence on me. If you ever get a chance listen to ‘I sing for the things’ and ‘Has anyone ever written anything for you’ off that album. Anyhoo.. my point is that I’ve loved Stevie for years and finally met her and it lived up to any ‘fan’ experience you might ever want. And I got some great advice. So Stevie, if you’re out there… you’re still the poet in my heart.

Twitter reference #1 is HERE. And when poor Darren died of envy at Keith Caulfield interviewing her, ‘Stevie’ was a dear and replied to HIM.

Cher - LEGEND. TWITTER QUEEN.

Lea Michele - Glee connection. Stevie also wrote e-mails & send gift to her in the wake of Cory Monteith's passing.

MDNAMafia

Papa Roach - Aww, I’d forgotten they even existed! A hard-rock band, of course. I’m very jealous because ‘Stevie’ sent them a DM earlier this year on Twitter. So random. I assume it was a VERY late reply to THIS.

Katy Perry - a more recent adoptee. Still amused at the John Mayer thing, considering SnL are both fans of him. Also, "No, you're gonna make ME roar."

Jimmy Star - As per his twitter, “Director of Operations of the Urban Division of The Spectra Music Group Largest Indie Record Label in the World”. Based in Philly, PA.

US Royalty - Washington, DC based indie rock band. They’ve covered Wild Heart a number of times live. HERE and HERE, for example. People have also compared their sound to FM before - particularly this song, Monte Carlo. One member said this about them:

"I remember, in 8th grade, a friend of mine taped this Fleetwood Mac PBS show around the time when The Dance came out, when they reunited,” Thornley tells SPIN. “I was so enchanted by this ‘Rhiannon’ song. They sounded like rock’n’roll, but they had this mystery to them.”

Joy Williams - Of The Civil Wars.

Bif Naked - Canadian singer-songwriter, actress and motivation speaker.

Hypnogaja - An LA based alt. rock band which started as an electronic studio project. They’re big fans of FM, Lindsey, and Stevie. They went to a concert in 2009, watched the Rumours era footage from Japan, got excited at shaking Lindsey’s hand, and went to Stevie’s show at the Wiltern in 2011.


Brandon Hilton - Apparently a ‘pop/dance artist, songwriter, and actor’ as that’s what his twitter account says. He LOVVVVVVES Stevie.

Justin Warfield - Musician and hip hop emcee, who is currently half of a darkwave duo, which draws from groups like Joy Division, New Order, Depeche Mode, and Interpol. He joins a discussion which includes the topic of FM on this podcast.

Brian Ray - Session musician, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, musical director, etc. Best known for playing in Paul McCartney’s recording and touring band for over a decade now.

Kim Yarbrough - The Voice Season 2 finalist. Naturally, Adam was her coach. She’s also made guest appearances on various telly shows.

Foghat - British rock band who peaked in the 70s. So cool, Stevie. She attended a show of theirs in 1977 and there’s also THIS photo of her with them from back in the day.

The Raveonettes - Danish indie rock duo. Lots of good two-part harmonies and quite dark lyrical content. They love Stevie, as evidence by saying she sang like an angel when watching her in March. Were rumoured to be covering a song for that recent tribute album that people like Lykki Li were also on.

Diane Birch - She loves incense. Surely that’s enough reason for a follow? NYC based singer-songwriter. People have compared her voice to Stevie’s before. She partially covers Dreams HERE, and did a cover of Landslide which aired on NCIS: LA.

Jann Arden - Canadian singer-songwriter. She has covered Dreams on an album, interviewed Stevie on her radio show in 2011, and both of them performed at the Voices in the Park gig in Vancouver.

Smashing Pumpkins - Who of course covered Landslide, amongst many, many other awesome things they’ve done.

Filter - Industrial rock group formed in 1993 by Richard Patrick, who broke from Nine Inch Nails and formed a new band. Two former members have also played in Billy Corgan’s touring band. Patrick likes the guitar hook from Gypsy.

Jillian Jensen - Contestant on The X Factor in 2012; auditioned for American Idol XIII.

Melissa Etheridge - They both performed at an AARP event in NOLA in 2012.

The 69 Eyes - Sits nicely between the Katy Perry and Lady Gaga, no? They’re a Finnish band and the band’s fans describe their style as ‘goth ‘n’ roll’.

The Civil Wars - There’s a picture of her chatting with Joy at a Grammys afterpart which I ADORE. Her niece Jessi is also a big fan. Stevie’s compared them to Buckingham Nicks which is along the lines of what a lot of fan and media say. Info HERE.

Karsh Kale - Indian American Musician and producer. Pioneering figure in defining Asian Underground genre, and is also involved in table drumming and film composition. Can we play degrees of separation? Karsh Kale > Anouska Shankar > Norah Jones > Lindsey Buckingham is a fun way to go. He was VERY pleased to have Stevie follow him on Twitter. You can watch him perform HERE with a FM shirt on.

Kids of 88 - New wave duo based in Auckland, New Zealand. They cop to being brought up on many bands, including Fleetwood Mac.

Mackenzie Phillips - Actress and singer, who gained stardom in the 70s. Had drug and alcohol problems into the nineties. Phillips references Stevie’s ‘I Miss You’ in her autobiography (she played the song a lot in the wake of her feather’s death, identifying with the lyrics), and she mentions Waddy in it as well. Had mentioned S on Twitter a few times.

Corey Britz - Bass player for rock band Bush (headed by Gavin Rossdale, Gwen Stefani’s husband). They’ve covered Landslide before. More than once.

Fyrare - Rapper/singer/producer with Island Def Jam.

Lisa Lambe - Irish actress and singer. Member of Celtic Woman. She likes Stevie. A lot.

Amber Coffman - Member of The Dirty Projectors (a band Lindsey really likes, btw). Dressed up as Stevie for a Halloween gig in 2009.

Cyndi Lauper

Lady Gaga

There are other follows as well - a marketing dude for Warners, several venues, FM News and so on.

Holy Cow.Thanks Nicole for this info.Alot to read and study.

Originally Posted by BlueDenimLamp

The "RealStevieNicks" twitter is a complete FRAUD!!! It was set up by Clayton Morris and the account info was given to Stevie or someone in her inner circle...
The info was then stolen or the account was hacked after which someone started tweeting first as Stevie then as Karen after people knew it was not Stevie...
This upset Stevie to the point that she issued her hand written "I DO NOT TWEET" letter...


The "RealStevieNicks" has not tweeted since July 18 2010 the day before Stevie issued her "I DO NOT TWEET" letter...

As far as the "verified" Stevie Nicks twitter goes I highly doubt Stevie has anything to do with it or even has a clue as to who @StevieNicks is following and whoever is doing the tweeting is completely clueless about how it should be used...Here's a perfect example...The Stevie twitter has not tweeted about hew new album or her ICON award or about the PSA she did to raise awareness about homeless veterans but they just tweeted about a tambourine Stevie signed for the "Tazzy Fund" which last time I knew was chaired by Mike Campbell and his wife...While it may be fun to see who the account is following and try and make a "Stevie" connection I don't see the @StevieNicks twitter as much more than a novelty right now...If Stevie herself were to start tweeting then I might take it seriously...

I think the RealStevienicks account should of got deleted by Clayton,Twitter or whoever .Its confusing her fans.

"I do not TWEET" LOL . I love that .That makes two of us.As same goes for Face Book and MySpace too.

BTW .I always loved her beautiful handwritten letters.

[BlueDenimLamp]

Originally Posted by singertobe

Its strange because Lindsey actually tweeted to @realstevienicks as if it really was her. Did even HE not know?

I would question the authenticity of the Lindsey twitter because it's been active for 5 years without being "verified" and it doesn't link to a web site...

Is this the retweet you're referring to...

This is another bogus Stevie twitter...

Please give what you can for the people of Haiti~https://www.wfp.org/donate/haiti

— Stephanie Nicks (@realstevinicks) January 30, 2010

And another bogus Stevie twitter...

My internet friend @ClaytonMorris did a fun interview on a show called The Pipeline. Use iTunes or listen here: http://5by5.tv/pipeline/20

— Stevie Nicks (@RealStevieNicks) July 8, 2010

Would Stevie ever say "My internet friend and iTunes" in the same sentence as well as "copy & paste" a link...

[BlueDenimLamp]

Originally Posted by Macfanforever

Holy Cow.Thanks Nicole for this info.Alot to read and study.






I think the RealStevienicks account should of got deleted by Clayton,Twitter or whoever .Its confusing her fans.

"I do not TWEET" LOL . I love that .That makes two of us.As same goes for Face Book and MySpace too.

BTW .I always loved her beautiful handwritten letters.

Don't miss out on a chance to own a signed tambourine by Stevie Nicks and help save some animals in need too! http://t.co/bhUnjBblBO

— Stevie Nicks (@StevieNicks) May 21, 2014

The multiple "Stevie twitters" were indeed confusing...Now that Stevie's twitter is "verified" it will be fairly difficult for someone to impersonate her and it will make it easy for fans to know it's actually Stevie's twitter...

As far as getting the fake twitters deleted I believe that someone from "camp Stevie" has to lodge a complaint with twitter that people are impersonating her...

[Jondalar]

This is definitely a country song. Maybe this will make the album. She could do the duet with a country star.

[nicole21290]

Originally Posted by BlueDenimLamp

I would question the authenticity of the Lindsey twitter because it's been active for 5 years without being "verified" and it doesn't link to a web site...

Is this the retweet you're referring to...

This is another bogus Stevie twitter...

Please give what you can for the people of Haiti~https://www.wfp.org/donate/haiti

— Stephanie Nicks (@realstevinicks) January 30, 2010

The @lndsybuckingham one has never been verified nor linked to anything official of his, no. A number of people had thought it could be some kind of tool his people/person were trying out, I believe, at one stage. It only follows five accounts - four guitar related and that non-official Stevie account called @realstevinicks. The latter - I’m 99% sure - is run by the same person/people who runs the Lindsey one. They were even set up at the same time, I believe - March 2009. Other reasons?

• primarily used for tour dates
• same writing style in that they post like old FB updates which asked the question 'what are you doing?'
• retweeting and following each other
• tweeting about the exact same things with the same wording, punctuation or spelling errors (seriously, they KEPT spelling Australia with an extra 'i'...)

I’ve given some examples of the similarities below. Lindsey’s are italicised text, Stevie’s are bold.

onlineredkettle.org/BarbaraNicks
tears and prayers

onlineredkettle.org/BarbaraNicks

Hope everyone had a peaceful Thanksgiving and remembered to be thankful for what we do have in our lives

hopes everyone has an enjoyable and peaceful Thanksgiving

heart broken for the people in Japan

Hearts and prayers go out to the people in Japan

Check this video out — Lindsey Buckingham - Time Precious Time - Accoustic guitar lesson

Check this video out — Stevie Nicks - “Secret Love” Official Music Video

Hope for Haiti telethon- tonight on VH1

Retweeted @realstevienicks
Please give what you can for the people of Haiti

wants to wish everyone the best in 2010

Happy 2010~!
Best wishes to all of you in 2010 too~ Thanks for happy thoughts!

will be performing in London tonight-October 30th and Halloween evening

will be in Glasgow, Scotland Tomorrow October 22~

Fleetwood Mac has added Austrailia to the “Unleashed” tour

Austrailia is on the tour! Rock a Little (@SHERYLCROW1)
Fleetwood Mac will be in Melbourne, Austrailia December 1- “Unleashed”

Supporting Save the Music @saveourmusic

@SaveOurMusic
The tour starts in Copenhagen, Denmark- Oct. 8th @saveourmusic
supports “Save The Music” @saveourmusic ; ~)

Tonight’s show in Sacramento will be rescheduled

due to illness, Fleetwood Mac will not be performing in Sacramento tonight.

She’s also tweeted to that previously mentioned Sheryl Crow account (not official) before just saying ‘call’, lol. What IS interesting is that that Sheryl Crow account (@sherylcrow1) ALSO follows @lndsybuckingham. And Dave Matthews. And Jimmy Fallon. And the musician Jessie Baylin, whom the official SN account as well as Jessi Nicks follows as well.

Most people have dismissed it (and Stevie’s, which is no longer used since Barbara’s death) as some fan-run accounts. I have to say, though, that it’s run like NO fan account I’ve ever seen, to be honest. It’s quite an odd one and I'd love to know who set them up. The @lndsybuckingham account is also followed by a new unverified Christine McVie twitter account that popped up fairly recently called @christine_mcvie (which also follows FM, Stevie’s official account, Dave’s, Village Studios, FM News and so on, as well as having a link to FM's website in her bio).

[BlueLight]

Originally Posted by nicole21290

I like playing Stevie country connections. Has anyone checked out who her official twitter follows before? I have. There's some fun things in there, including a fair number of country connections. See?

Fascinating! Thanks for compiling!

[BlueDenimLamp]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

This is definitely a country song. Maybe this will make the album. She could do the duet with a country star.

This is the song she used to sing with her grandfather (a country western singer/songwriter) when she was 4...The 4am in the morning jam with Stevie, Sharon, Lori and Sandy is probably a better version of this song...

Stevie needs to stay as far away from the current trendy country singers as she can...The more I see Lady Antebellum performing Stevie's songs the less I like it...

[seeker007nmss]

Originally Posted by Macfanforever

Holy Cow.Thanks Nicole for this info.Alot to read and study.






I think the RealStevienicks account should of got deleted by Clayton,Twitter or whoever .Its confusing her fans.

"I do not TWEET" LOL . I love that .That makes two of us.As same goes for Face Book and MySpace too.

BTW .I always loved her beautiful handwritten letters.

I posted her letter "I dobn't facebook" on "her" facebook page. I put it up at 4 am EST and it was deleted in under 10 minutes. Hmmmmmm.......

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by BlueDenimLamp

The "RealStevieNicks" twitter is a complete FRAUD!!! It was set up by Clayton Morris and the account info was given to Stevie or someone in her inner circle...

I was listening to Clayton Morris on a podcast this week, he said with Christine's return he has to see FM when they are in Pennsylvania, it's part of his "bucket list." He also said that he felt he had to do it because of John's mortality.

Michele