DAVE STEWART RESURFACES FROM A FEW DAYS OF QUIET

And Michelle Branch gets a first listen to the new Stevie Nicks CD.

Earlier today, Dave Stewart re-emerged on his Twitter page to proclaim that he's been away for a few days due to filming for Stevie Nicks upcoming album and documentary or in the exact words of Mr. Stewart "I've been absent 4 days of Stevie Filming er shall I say strange stuff !!!" (not sure what that means). Either he was filming, or doing some other strange stuff !! In any case...still hard at work on his project with Stevie...and that's a good thing!

Michelle Branch entered the picture today... She stated that she heard Stevie's new album...and wants it! saying it's absolutely fantastic!... Another positive! A lingering question with a lot of us regarding Michelle is when oh when are we going to hear her version of "Say You Love Me"?  The version she recorded and Stevie produced for a yet to be released country tribute album to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours?... Haven't heard a word on this other then what Michelle has put out into the ether, not even what other artists contributed to the disc.  Could be that the project is dead or on hold.

Both Michelle and Dave's exchange on Twitter along with Mr. David Wild of Rollingstone and The Huffington Post can be found in the Dave Stewart and Stevie Nicks Timeline (scroll to the bottom)

SOMETHING'S COOKING IN THE NICKS CAMP

A couple of intersting tweets from Producer Dave Stewart (Eurythmics):

"wrote a great song with Stevie Nicks on Monday called "Everybody Loves You"

and when asked if this means Stevie's making a new album?.... He responded with:

"she's on top form and I see that possibility"

What this all means is anyones guess.  And where this all falls within Stevie's album making process, if that's in fact what she's doing is really up in the air - maybe she's writing music with Dave Stewart for another artist to sing?... Maybe it's just the beginning of putting an album together for herself and we have a few more years to wait for it to be complete... And you never know, maybe she's been working on this already for a few years and it's the middle of the process...it could also be the final leg of making an album.  Man, you could speculate all day about this!  In any case, it's great to hear she's still interested in making new music whether it's writing for herself, others, or producing music for Michelle Branch, which Michelle Branch tweeted about earlier in the month (link)...  Personally, I hope Stevie's working on music for herself... It's been far too long since her last studio album Trouble in Shangri-La came out (2001).

And it's not Dave's first encounter with Stevie as he explains in this interview from Rockline from a couple of years ago when talking about the inspiration behind writing Tom Petty's song "Don't Come Around Here No More" back in the early 80's.

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MICHELLE BRANCH PRODUCED BY STEVIE NICKS - FLEETWOOD MAC TRIBUTE ALBUM

Over the last few hours, Michelle Branch has been dropping hints as to what she's been up to.  A few photos surfaced - one of which was the lyrics to "Say You Love Me" by Fleetwood Mac, the other was the snapshot below of Waddy Wachtel.

Now... According to Michelle Branch's twitter page, she's in the studio singing "Say You Love Me" for a Fleetwood Mac Tribute album.... And the cool thing is Stevie Nicks is producing the track for her.

STEVIE NICKS AND MICHELLE BRANCH ON THE BEACH

I was looking for the actual published photo from this photo session - but couldn't find it. I also can't recall what magazine this photo session was for... Was it Instyle just a few years ago? This is an outtake shot from that session on the beach. Posted by Michelle Branch