Mck: FM finishing new album, SN likely not involved

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Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

But why did she need to do that? If she was such a prolific songwriter, surely she would have an abundance of songs available to work from and mix with "songs from the vault" as she normally does?

Well, this is what Stevie said as to why she did 24KG:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/ne...rat-gold-album

Why old songs instead of new ones?

This album was made very fast. When [John McVie] got cancer, we had to cancel our tour of Australia. I had some free time, and I thought, "Maybe I should make a record." All over the Internet, there are songs I wrote but never released, and people keep saying, "Why don't you record these songs for real?" I'd never had time to do that. Now I had an empty, precious three months.

My previous album, In Your Dreams, took a year and two months. So I called [In Your Dreams producer] Dave Stewart and said, "How do we make a record in two months?" And he said, "We go to Nashville." He told me, "In Nashville, you hire the best studio musicians, and they record two songs a day. On a really good day, they might even do three." I was laughing, because I didn't believe him. But we were there for three weeks, and we recorded 17 songs in 15 days.

The 2 Tom Petty inspired songs that we know about from the TISL sessions were written in 1995 - 6 years before the album was released. They were already old. Also, the best songs on the album were vault songs, with the exception of "Fall From Grace".

My Tom Petty reference was in relation to Tom telling Stevie she doesn't need him to help her write songs, she's capable of doing it herself. This was '94 I believe, so it did inspire her to write some good songs between '95 and '01, eventually leading to TISL. It wasn't necessarily about a song or two in particular, but motivation to start writing again.