A few Nightbird reactions, which rarely gets reacted to on YouTube

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by sue

I’m concerned…
Your last sentence is almost, almost a complement …
Using Amazing in a sentence about Stevie.
Are you well ?

I'm not sure that "amazing that she survived" is a compliment... but if it works for you, go with it!

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

I'm not sure that "amazing that she survived" is a compliment... but if it works for you, go with it!

I think it would be a compliment in 1997. She looked gorgeous after all she went through or did.

[BrownEyedGirl26]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

Cool. A good companion song to Nightbird is John Stewart's Midnight Wind. It has that same dark, witchy feel and some of Stevie's best vocals. Her vocals really bring this song to life.

I have always loved this song. "Come on Down, Miranda"!
The first reference to Miranda, especially since I think Lindsey worked with, and was a fan of John Stewart, since he was with The Kingston Trio. Also, wasn't Lindsey involved with this song and album?. Great two part harmony and such a strong vocal, especially towards the end.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by BrownEyedGirl26

I have always loved this song. "Come on Down, Miranda"!
The first reference to Miranda, especially since I think Lindsey worked with, and was a fan of John Stewart, since he was with The Kingston Trio. Also, wasn't Lindsey involved with this song and album?. Great two part harmony and such a strong vocal, especially towards the end.

Yes Lindsey was involved in the album playing guitar and vocals.
I love the way Stevie throws her voice in the second verse M I R A N D A

Also the way Stevie falls behind in the chorus after the second verse is classic Stevie and brilliant.

Stevie's bathroom door is back cover of this album.

This song was such a precursor to Sisters of the moon

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by BrownEyedGirl26

I have always loved this song. "Come on Down, Miranda"!
The first reference to Miranda, especially since I think Lindsey worked with, and was a fan of John Stewart, since he was with The Kingston Trio. Also, wasn't Lindsey involved with this song and album?. Great two part harmony and such a strong vocal, especially towards the end.

I had no idea that Midnight Wind hit #28 on the Billboard charts.

Here is the ultimate trivia question. Name the Lindsey song where Lindsey uses the phrase "Midnight Wind."

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I had no idea that Midnight Wind hit #28 on the Billboard charts.

Here is the ultimate trivia question. Name the Lindsey song where Lindsey uses the phrase "Midnight Wind."

Loving Cup from Go Insane

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by Villavic

Loving Cup from Go Insane

Winner winner chicken dinner
my favorite Lindsey solo song

Did you know it or did you have to look it up?

[David]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I had no idea that Midnight Wind hit #28 on the Billboard charts.

Me, neither. “Gold” was huge (and John Stewart grew to absolutely despise how vacuous and commercial that song was and he stopped performing it). But “Midnight Wind” didn’t exactly take over radio in 1979.

There were so many good cuts on that album, some of them retakes of old songs that John did a decade earlier. Lindsey really amped up several of them, like “Runaway Fool of Love” and “Spinning of the World.” Listen to John’s first recording of “Runaway” and then play the 1979 recording — night and day. Not bad, just different, quite different. Lindsey took a barrelhouse song and turned it into a hot, modern dance number. The whole album has Lindsey’s stamp all over it, not just the electric guitar and background vocals but even the way the bass and drums are recorded. Everything is engineered to sound like Fleetwood Mac (in other words, Lindsey) or Kingston Trio with vocal harmonizing.

When John opened for Stevie in 1981, he sang a pretty, short set, most of it just him on his guitar — songs like “Lost Her in the Sun” and “Cheyenne.” In fact, he played acoustic guitar accompaniments that I swear sound like Lindsey today with his one-guitar-as-orchestra approach. But for the last two songs, a couple of guys from Stevie’s band who were friends of John’s came out and played full rock plugged in with him. That was of course “Midnight Wind” and “Gold.” I heard that Stevie actually joined John for one of those at one of the shows, but that did not happen in Beverly Hills.

There used to be some old print archives online with John talking about his connection to Lindsey and Stevie (and the rest of Fleetwood Mac). He had utmost respect for their best stuff. He wrote “Coming Out of Nowhere” as an homage to Lindsey’s “That’s Enough for Me,” which John believed was one of the greatest things Mac had ever done. Maybe he should have joined the band during some of those dry years. I would have taken one John Stewart, steeped in the folk rock and rockabilly Fleetwood Mac tradition, than a million Dave Masons or Bekka Bramletts. I have nothing against those two musically, but I was angry that musicians without any genuine love for Mac would join Mac. Same for the Crowded House guy. Billy Burnette was burning to join Fleetwood Mac for years — he adored them — but the Crowded House guy would have probably rather joined a dozen other bands. When it’s obvious, it’s obvious.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by David

Me, neither. “Gold” was huge (and John Stewart grew to absolutely despise how vacuous and commercial that song was and he stopped performing it). But “Midnight Wind” didn’t exactly take over radio in 1979.

There were so many good cuts on that album, some of them retakes of old songs that John did a decade earlier. Lindsey really amped up several of them, like “Runaway Fool of Love” and “Spinning of the World.” Listen to John’s first recording of “Runaway” and then play the 1979 recording — night and day. Not bad, just different, quite different. Lindsey took a barrelhouse song and turned it into a hot, modern dance number. The whole album has Lindsey’s stamp all over it, not just the electric guitar and background vocals but even the way the bass and drums are recorded. Everything is engineered to sound like Fleetwood Mac (in other words, Lindsey) or Kingston Trio with vocal harmonizing.

When John opened for Stevie in 1981, he sang a pretty, short set, most of it just him on his guitar — songs like “Lost Her in the Sun” and “Cheyenne.” In fact, he played acoustic guitar accompaniments that I swear sound like Lindsey today with his one-guitar-as-orchestra approach. But for the last two songs, a couple of guys from Stevie’s band who were friends of John’s came out and played full rock plugged in with him. That was of course “Midnight Wind” and “Gold.” I heard that Stevie actually joined John for one of those at one of the shows, but that did not happen in Beverly Hills.

There used to be some old print archives online with John talking about his connection to Lindsey and Stevie (and the rest of Fleetwood Mac). He had utmost respect for their best stuff. He wrote “Coming Out of Nowhere” as an homage to Lindsey’s “That’s Enough for Me,” which John believed was one of the greatest things Mac had ever done. Maybe he should have joined the band during some of those dry years. I would have taken one John Stewart, steeped in the folk rock and rockabilly Fleetwood Mac tradition, than a million Dave Masons or Bekka Bramletts. I have nothing against those two musically, but I was angry that musicians without any genuine love for Mac would join Mac. Same for the Crowded House guy. Billy Burnette was burning to join Fleetwood Mac for years — he adored them — but the Crowded House guy would have probably rather joined a dozen other bands. When it’s obvious, it’s obvious.

Gosh, if there ever is a live version of Gold out there with Stevie on vocals would be the ultimate find. I can only imagine how great that would be. Even if it was ever done at soundcheck and not recorded would be a shame.

[Penguin Emeritus]

Originally Posted by BrownEyedGirl26

I have always loved this song. "Come on Down, Miranda"!
The first reference to Miranda, especially since I think Lindsey worked with, and was a fan of John Stewart, since he was with The Kingston Trio. Also, wasn't Lindsey involved with this song and album?. Great two part harmony and such a strong vocal, especially towards the end.

such a great song. marty and I used to spend a LOT of time listening to John Stewart lol, marty was obsessed with him for awhile. and I do like stevie's vocals on his songs.

--Lis