Release the New Album Without Stevie...

[lbfan]

They won't sacrifice the "golden goose" (i.e., the tour and the $ that come with it) for a new album. That is why there is not a new album and may never be a new album. The rest of the band realizes that if Stevie doesn't participate in the new album, there won't be an album at all. She holds all of the cards in this affair. As Mick said, they will likely be "pushing up daisies" before we hear the music. Perhaps Stevie feels a new album would detract from the band's legacy (or her own personal legacy). Her reasons are her own.