Dave mentions Stevie's "forthcoming album" in new Billboard article

[vivfox]

I would be thrilled if she did a soft duet with Drake.

[GavinBrown]

Ive wanted Stevie to collaborate with lady gaga and pink for awhile....

[nailatixela]

Originally Posted by SuiteShangriLa

2 hot guys havin a litl fun

Dang. All this time I seriously just thought it was Stevie. I thought she was a few steps back from the microphone, with her arms up and a GDW shawl on...hiding from the stage light. The Dance era. I swear. I just looked closer now that it was mentioned.

I guess some pics can be seen more than one way.

edit: It was a really cool Stevie pic, too! Now I can't see Stevie!

[APerfectLie]

Originally Posted by StreetAngel95

haha, ok, yeah John? I believe the point is to make sure Miranda DOESN'T have a heart attack. If Hayley and Stevie duet. I.WILL.DIE. IT would be the most amazing thing on earth!

Ahh I agree! They friggin need too!

Originally Posted by ButterCookie

But... she already sang with Ann and Nance as for the new artists, Florence Welch!

I know they sang "What About Love?" live once, but have they actually ever recorded something together?! If so, I have missed out!

[Phil]

"We're going to start recording the album ... in three weeks time," he says.

I understood Dave's comment to mean that they would start recording the album in three weeks - not complete it in that time. The Billboard article was published on June 4 so the interview would have taken place before that - possibly two or three weeks ago.
Dave recently said that he and Stevie would resume work in early June so I'm supposing that the recording sessions have already commenced, which would allow most probably about six weeks for them to complete the sessions. If, however, the album is not finished by then, there is no reason they couldn't pick up where they left off at a later date (ie after Dave has completed his Nashville sessions). They've already done this so far - they worked from February to April and have resumed in June.
Of course, the mixing and post production twiddling is a whole other story but I can't see why the recording couldn't be completed by mid July.

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by Nathan

What's atypical about this? When was the last time she put out a record and we had Twitter and Dave stewart to give us information about it?

I think she's working the way she always works. Lindsey is the one who likes to spend months and months in the studio. Stevie, as she has said herself many times, likes to get in, get out, and get on the road. This IS her MO. Remember that photoshoot she did in Marina Del Rey, on 4/20? It's likely enough, that what will become the cover of the new album is already on some computer being airbrushed, somewhere.

It's 2010, and it's Stevie and Dave Stewart... The album will almost certainly be 'up to snuff, quality wise'.

Now, whether or not we get this in a timely fashion, I obviously don't know. But there's nothing atypical about the speed, or manner in which this album is allegedly being recorded.

Were you around in the online Mac/Stevie community when TISL was being recorded and released? We actually got a great deal of info about the recording of the album through the 'net. We even had snippets of quite a few songs leaked to us fans. Stevie also did an online Q&A/chat through AOL. This newest album of Stevie's isn't the first time us fans have been kept abreast of things as they progress. We knew exactly what was going on the whole time with TISL... we knew Dallas Austin was to produce, that fell through. We knew Sheryl Crow was to produce... that didn't last terribly long. It all just kept getting pushed back ad nauseam... which is kinda typical in Stevie land .

My fear of quality comes almost solely from the snippet of "Everybody Loves You." To me, Stevie's vocal sounded uninspired, and the whole thing had a very icky Adult Contemporary vibe to it. I'm not trying to be a Negative Nancy at all here... I want Stevie to do something amazing. I would LOVE to see her shake up her formula. I'm just not convinced she's doing it in the right way. But I'll more than gladly eat my own words if I turn out to be wrong... and I *DO* hope I'm wrong!

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Were you around in the online Mac/Stevie community when TISL was being recorded and released? We actually got a great deal of info about the recording of the album through the 'net. We even had snippets of quite a few songs leaked to us fans. Stevie also did an online Q&A/chat through AOL. This newest album of Stevie's isn't the first time us fans have been kept abreast of things as they progress. We knew exactly what was going on the whole time with TISL... we knew Dallas Austin was to produce, that fell through. We knew Sheryl Crow was to produce... that didn't last terribly long. It all just kept getting pushed back ad nauseam... which is kinda typical in Stevie land .

Nope, I wasn't around then. Interesting though.

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

My fear of quality comes almost solely from the snippet of "Everybody Loves You." To me, Stevie's vocal sounded uninspired, and the whole thing had a very icky Adult Contemporary vibe to it. I'm not trying to be a Negative Nancy at all here... I want Stevie to do something amazing. I would LOVE to see her shake up her formula. I'm just not convinced she's doing it in the right way. But I'll more than gladly eat my own words if I turn out to be wrong... and I *DO* hope I'm wrong!

All I would say is that the snippet of Everybody Loves You was really just so short... Would be like basing your opinion on the snippet of the New Orleans song...

But I know the adult contemporary vibe you're talking about, and I'm not really a fan of it either. She tried it with 'Everyday' on TISL kind of, and it sucked. Fall From Grace, on the other hand, rocked.

Anyway, who knows.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Were you around in the online Mac/Stevie community when TISL was being recorded and released? We actually got a great deal of info about the recording of the album through the 'net. We even had snippets of quite a few songs leaked to us fans. Stevie also did an online Q&A/chat through AOL. This newest album of Stevie's isn't the first time us fans have been kept abreast of things as they progress. We knew exactly what was going on the whole time with TISL... we knew Dallas Austin was to produce, that fell through. We knew Sheryl Crow was to produce... that didn't last terribly long. It all just kept getting pushed back ad nauseam... which is kinda typical in Stevie land .

My fear of quality comes almost solely from the snippet of "Everybody Loves You." To me, Stevie's vocal sounded uninspired, and the whole thing had a very icky Adult Contemporary vibe to it. I'm not trying to be a Negative Nancy at all here... I want Stevie to do something amazing. I would LOVE to see her shake up her formula. I'm just not convinced she's doing it in the right way. But I'll more than gladly eat my own words if I turn out to be wrong... and I *DO* hope I'm wrong!

ahh, your still in there somewhere.

[Phil]

I for one am absolutely thrilled to bits that Stevie is finally working with Dave after all these years. It saddened me that their brief exchange in 1984 didn't come to fruition but now there is a chance to make up for lost time.
We also need to consider the alternative - the only other producer she has mentioned working with in recent years is the god-awful David Foster when she spoke briefly on NBC Today in 2007 about possibly recording a standards/blues album with him. This of course could still happen at some stage, but in the meantime, we are getting original material instead of covers and an inspired (at least in my opinion) producer in Stewart as opposed to a schlocky, definitely middle-of-the-road, boardroom exectuive like Foster.
Last year, Lindsey mentioned Dave Stewart, Daniel Lanois and Rick Rubin as possible candidates for co-producer of the proposed Fleetwood Mac album and whilst I approve of all three choices, I suspect Lanois and Rubin were his ideas rather than Stevie's. By all means, if she collaborated with either or both of them on her solo album, I would be chuffed but I do prefer the idea of her completing the project with one producer for the sake of continuity and consistency.

[Christopher]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Were you around in the online Mac/Stevie community when TISL was being recorded and released? We actually got a great deal of info about the recording of the album through the 'net. We even had snippets of quite a few songs leaked to us fans. Stevie also did an online Q&A/chat through AOL. This newest album of Stevie's isn't the first time us fans have been kept abreast of things as they progress. We knew exactly what was going on the whole time with TISL... we knew Dallas Austin was to produce, that fell through. We knew Sheryl Crow was to produce... that didn't last terribly long. It all just kept getting pushed back ad nauseam... which is kinda typical in Stevie land .

My fear of quality comes almost solely from the snippet of "Everybody Loves You." To me, Stevie's vocal sounded uninspired, and the whole thing had a very icky Adult Contemporary vibe to it. I'm not trying to be a Negative Nancy at all here... I want Stevie to do something amazing. I would LOVE to see her shake up her formula. I'm just not convinced she's doing it in the right way. But I'll more than gladly eat my own words if I turn out to be wrong... and I *DO* hope I'm wrong!

Your fear based on a snippet of a demo of "Everybody Loves You" seems really premature (of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion). Clearly the snippet Dave leaked is them fleshing out the bones of the song. And I for one have no illusions that Stevie's new solo record will include include adult contemporary material. Stevie has always had a wide variety of music on each release all the way from the beginning, whether it be the soft ballads like "Landslide", "Leather & Lace" & "I Miss You" to more rocking songs like "Edge of 17" "Long Way To Go' & "Fall From Grace" and everything in between. And I for one don't expect Stevie to put out a more rocking than usual outing at 62 years of age.

Also in the years before TISL was released, there was very little info leaked (but much speculation amongst fans) as I recall, and I did have my eye's and ear's plugged in to the few mentions in interviews from Sheryl Crow while she was promoting the Globe Sessions that she had worked w/ Stevie on some Buckingham Nicks era songs & may resume when her schedule permits, a tiny mention in Us or People magazine in late 99' that Stevie was working with Dallas Austin after loving "Unpretty" by TLC & finally word in Sept. 2000, when Stevie staged her Arizona Heart Benefit, as reported in a Phoenix paper that recording on TISL was finished. All the press and leaks did not happen until the promotion machine was in full throttle starting with the official PR kick-off, which was an article & interview with Stevie in Billboard Magazine Feb. 2001 announcing the details of the recordings and official release date. Warners/Reprise started streaming the songs "Everyday" & "Planets of the Universe" on their official web site mid March, It was only after this that some fan's who had the promotional advance release in their hands, started leaking snippets of songs on fan boards like this staring late March through April just weeks before the official release. Then full blown promotion began in April, with the video release and tie in w. VH1 & the AOL interview etc. etc.

That's a long way to go to demonstrate that Stevie is really not working any differently than what she has done before. & believe me, as a die hard fan from 81' until now I remember every gory detail. Stevie will not confirm details of the recordings until there is something more substantial to report, til' then we will have to rely on snippets from those working with her (as in the past) to get small information bites to speculate on ad-nauseum.

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by Christopher

That's a long way to go to demonstrate that Stevie is really not working any differently than what she has done before. & believe me, as a die hard fan from 81' until now I remember every gory detail. Stevie will not confirm details of the recordings until there is something more substantial to report, til' then we will have to rely on snippets from those working with her (as in the past) to get small information bites to speculate on ad-nauseum.

I will have to disagree slightly here. In years past, it seems like Stevie always answered questions about her future endeavors with definitive information. For example, while promoting The Wild Heart, Stevie boasted in interviews that her new solo album would be released within a year (which obviously didn't happen). Later interviews from that era actually mentioned Rock a Little as the title of the as-yet-unfinished album. We knew the title for Street Angel a year or two prior to its release. And we knew since the late nineties that Stevie's next solo album would be titled Trouble in Shangri-la- a reference to OJ Simpson. And this was all before the mainstream ubiquity of the interwebs. This time everything is top secret despite the 24-hour news cycle and the proliferation of gossip blogs and online chatter. Stevie's interviews all last year gave us conflicting, vague information about future prospects. She was revved up to record with Fleetwood Mac one minute, then bashing Lindsey the next. She was doing something with "Rhiannon" one minute, then lamenting the futility of releasing new music the next. We are now unofficially (i.e., not from publicists, record labels or mainstream media outlets) aware of three Stevie projects in the works (solo album, Rumours tribute, Buddy Holly tribute), but not a peep from the source. And there was barely any mention anywhere of the August concert dates either. We have no release dates, no title information, no interviews, no website updates, etc. Nada. This is not standard protocol for Mama. I can understand her wariness about online social media and her desire for privacy. But I think her guardedness here is potentially sabotaging the success of her projects. But then again, this may all be part of a master plan- to stir up anticipation and speculation. All I can say is thank goodness for Dave Stewart.

[Christopher]

^^^ All good points. But obviously during Stevie's solo heyday from Bella Donna through say OSOTM especially, news about Stevie's forthcoming projects were more reported on in music & trade magazines such as Rolling Stone, Billboard & ICE etc. than they ever would be today. And only after Stevie's renaissance with "The Dance" success, did we get tidbit's of information reported in the press about TISL, mostly through Sheryl Crow late 1998 and a few thereafter. Yes, Stevie did mention in a few interviews during "The Dance" - "Enchanted" period, the title of her next solo project, and the inspiration from the O.J. trial, I only debate that we did not know exactly what was going on with TISL from 1998 through 2000, only speculation from the tidbit's of info. The only thing different is that Stevie was riding the success of "The Dance" there f0re much more anticipation was around regarding the new solo cd & we knew the title & the possible inclusion of Buckingham Nicks era songs. I never knew until early 2001 after the Billboard interview, that she even worked with John Shanks to finish up the recording sessions.

So let the speculation continue....It is fun, and Dave's tweets keeps our appetite wet in anticipation of the longest drought of new solo material from Stevie ever!

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by Christopher

So let the speculation continue....It is fun, and Dave's tweets keeps our appetite wet in anticipation of the longest drought of new solo material from Stevie ever!

Oh, I couldn't agree more! That's what's so fun about new albums coming out... all the speculation and debate. Thank GOD we FINALLY have something to hash out aroung here again. It's been such a drought for years!

I need to remind myself to chill out some, and just enjoy the ride. Stevie and the Mac are just a smidge frustrating to follow, though... it builds up over the course of nearly 20 years!

[KarmaContestant]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I need to remind myself to chill out some, and just enjoy the ride. Stevie and the Mac are just a smidge frustrating to follow, though... it builds up over the course of nearly 20 years!

Isn't that the truth.

If it weren't for all those damn demos and outtakes that have leaked, I'd have given up years ago.

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

Isn't that the truth.

If it weren't for all those damn demos and outtakes that have leaked, I'd have given up years ago.

I'm with you there.