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Stevie Nicks Earning Praise for New Solo Album 'In Your Dreams'

Many critics and fans are calling Stevie Nicks’ new album the best of her solo career.

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The title track of Stevie Nicks’ new album, In Your Dreams, is one of seven songs she wrote with the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart, who also co-produced the collection. The pair spent the past year recording the album at Stevie’s California home. Other collaborators include Mike Campbell of Tom Petty’s band The Heartbreakers, Stevie’s former bandmate Lindsey Buckingham, and Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood. Stevie refers to the making of “In Your Dreams” as the highlight of her entire career.

“I can honestly tell you, the very best year of my life," Stevie says. "It shuts down anything else that has ever happened to me. It was so much fun and so grand and so soul-fulfilling that when it was over and we started taking the studio down in December and all the people that had lived in the house that year started taking their stuff, it was horrifying. I almost just sat on the stairs and cried because I was so sad that it was over.”

The song “Annabel Lee”, found on Stevie's new album, is an adaptation of an 1849 poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. Other songs on In Your Dreams were inspired by personal events in Stevie’s life. Two date back to poems the singer wrote in the mid-1970s.

In 2004, Stevie began visiting wounded military personnel at Washington, D.C.’s Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Bethesda Naval Hospital. She helps lift their spirits by giving each soldier a portable media player filled with her favorite music. Included on her new album is a song called “Soldier’s Angel,” which holds special meaning to her and those she has met in the hospitals.

“It was a poem that was written in 2005 and since I have given this poem out to many many families, many many soldiers. And, I always told them, ‘This will be a song one day.’ So, I think this is my most revered song of all time,” she explains.

Stevie recently wrapped up a co-headlining tour with rock legend Rod Stewart. She hints that her future plans include the possibility of a new Fleetwood Mac album and tour that could happen as early as 2012.

DISC REVIEW: Stevie Nicks 'In Your Dreams' "the disc has a handful of top-rank Nicks tracks, including the mourning observations on New Orleans"

Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams (Warner)
BY JASON KELLER
NOW RATING N N N N N
Now Magazine Toronto

Upon hearing that the great black magic enchantress Steve Nicks has written a song inspired by milquetoast teen vampire franchise Twilight, you had to figure her new disc, In Your Dreams, didn’t stand a chance. Why would an OG (original goth) like Nicks take her cues from something so toothless?

It turns out the track in question, Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream), plods along at times but isn’t nearly as offensive as it might have been. In fact, you could say the same about all of the surprising In Your Dreams, which, despite being overlong at an hour-plus, might be Nicks’s best record since The Wild Heart.

Co-written with long-time songwriting partner (and former Eurhythmics main main) David Stewart and co-produced by Glen Ballard (of Alanis fame), the disc has a handful of top-rank Nicks tracks, including the mourning observations on New Orleans, an intimate tune called For What It’s Worth and Secret Love, a propulsive track she penned during the Mac’s mid-70s heyday. Lindsey Buckingham appears on the quiet Soldier’s Angel, and he and Nicks interlock in a unique way that tells us these two, at least musically, are bound together for life.

Top track: Secret Love

92 Photos: Stevie Nicks | Dave Stewart | Lindsey Buckingham - The Wiltern May 26, 2011

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(Photos) Re-live last Thursday night through the lens of Alicia Bailey - Stevie Nicks The Wiltern May 26, 2011

An amazing assortment of photos taken at The Wiltern May 26th.

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Plus, Mike Campbell from The Heartbreakers joins in on this a song.  Stevie wrote the words, Mike provided the music on the album.  Great sing along tune... Can't wait till she starts playing this in her shows!

(Chart Updates) Fleetwood Mac & Stevie Nicks | Singles & Albums The World Over

ALBUM CHARTS

STEVIE NICKS - IN YOUR DREAMS - Week 3 on the charts

In Your Dreams is really doing not too bad in the USA in it's 3rd week on the Billboard charts only dropping 8 places from # 16 to # 24 this week with 15,500 units sold for a 3 week total of 88,400.  In Australia the album drops from # 32 to # 51.  In Sweden the album drops from # 39 to # 59.  In Canada the album moves down from # 41 to # 62.  In The Netherlands the album moves down from # 57 to # 82 and in Germany after the album debuted at # 37 last week it nose dives this week landing at # 82.

# 24 - USA Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart - issue date 04/06/2011 - 15,500 units sold
# 23 - USA Billboard Top 200 Current Albums Chart
# 09 - USA Billboard Top Rock Albums Chart
# 51 - Australia - Top 100 Albums Chart 05/30/2011
# 59 - Sweden - Top 60 Album Chart 05/26/2011
# 62 - Canada Top 100 Albums Chart 05/26/11 - week ending 05/19/11
# 82 - The Netherlands Top 100 Album Chart - week ending 05/21/2011

STEVIE NICKS - IN YOUR DREAMS - Week 2 on the charts
# 86 - Germany Top 100 Albums Chart (05/27/2011)

FLEETWOOD MAC - RUMOURS
# 01 - Australia - Top 50 Catalogue Chart - 05/30/2011
# 03 - Australia - Top 50 Albums Chart - 05/30/2011
# 03 - Australia - Top 50 Digital Albums Chart - 05/30/2011
# 12 - The Netherlands - Top 50 Back Catalogue Chart - week ending 05/28/2011
# 22 - UK Top 100 Albums Chart - 06/04/2011
# 03 - UK Top 40 Catalogue Chart - 06/04/2011
# 11 - UK Top 40 Digital Albums Chart - 06/04/2011
# 25 - Ireland Top 100 Albums Chart - week ending 05/26/2011
# 51 - European Top 200 Albums Chart - 05/28/2011 - NEW
# 81 - USA Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart - issue date 04/06/2011
# 03 - USA Billboard Top Catalogue Albums Chart
# 81 - Canada Top 100 Albums Chart - 05/26/11 - week ending 05/19/11

FLEETWOOD MAC - THE VERY BEST OF
# 04 - Australia - Top 50 Catalogue Chart - week ending 05/30/2011
# 52 - Ireland - Top 100 Album Chart - week ending 05/26/2011
# 90 - UK Top 100 Album Chart - 06/04/2011 - Re-entery

FLEETWOOD MAC - GREATEST HITS
# 195 - USA Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart - issue date 04/06/2011

SINGLES CHARTS

Australia Top 100 Singles Chart - 05/30/2011

With Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” album still inside the Top 3 this week, two former singles from the album this week enter the singles chart. “Go Your Own Way” is back in at No.59 (HP-20, peaked April 1977) and back in at No.90 is “Dreams” (HP-19, peaked August 1977).

The Glee Cast move up a couple of places to No.30 with their version of Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way”.

# 30 - Glee Cast Go Your Own Way
# 59 - Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way - New Entry
# 90 - Fleetwood Mac Dreams - New Entry

Australia Top 40 Digital Track Chart - 05/30/2011
# 28 - Glee - Go Your Own Way

European Top 200 Singles Chart - 05/28/2011
#131 - Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way - New Entry
#177 - Fleetwood Mac Dreams - New Entry

UK Top 100 Singles Chart - 06/04/2011
# 86 - Glee Cast - Go Your Own Way
# 98 - Fleetwood Mac - Dreams

UK Catalogue Singles Top 40 Chart - 05/28/2011
# 03 - Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way
# 05 - Fleetwood Mac Dreams
# 08 - Fleetwood Mac Songbird
# 09 - Eva Cassidy Songbird (Fleetwood Mac cover)
# 19 - Fleetwood Mac The Chain

STEVIE NICKS - SECRET LOVE - AC Charts USA

Stevie's current single Secret Love drops one position on the Top 30 AC charts in the USA to # 24. Billboard Magazine issue date June 4, 2011

PHOTOS: The Wiltern Live May 26, 2011 - Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks & Dave Stewart

More Photos by Krista Kahl here

VIDEO: The Wiltern Stevie Nicks - Annabel Lee | Dreams | Sorcerer - Great footage!

I can't even tell you how great the new music sounded on this night... I mean just spectacular. Here are a few beautifully shot videos from Thursday's show.

Annabel Lee:

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(Review) Still magical: Stevie Nicks 'In Your Dreams' Grade 'A' (Ireland)

Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams 
(Reprise CD, 64:47).

I think a 10-year wait between albums is a bit long, especially when you have material as strong as Nicks presents here. In fact, the first single and opening track, “Secret Love,” was written in 1976, when Fleetwood Mac was opening for Peter Frampton at the time. It is about a forbidden relationship, but not one with Frampton, Nicks said.

Nicks’ last album of new material was the Grammy-nominated “Trouble in Shangi-La” 10 years ago. It was written and recorded at her Los Angeles home and is co-produced by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard, Nicks and Stewart (ex-Eurythmics with Annie Lennox) co-wrote seven of the 13 songs. Former bandmate Lindsey Buckingham sings and plays guitar on “Soldier’s Angel,” a highlight track that easily could have fit on Fleetwood Mac’s smash “Rumours” album. Mick Fleetwood himself contributes drums to the album. However, the core group that made the album was Nicks, Stewart, her longtime friend and musical director Waddy Wachtel and her girls, Sharon Celani and Lori Nicks.

Among the strong album’s many highlights are the travelogue “New Orleans”; “Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream),” inspired by the “Twilight” series; the orchestrated seduction of “Italian Dreams”; the rocker “Ghosts Are Gone”; and “Annabel Lee,” a 6-plus-minute delight inspired by the 1849 Edgar Allan Poe piece and a meditation on love and death. In one song, she sings, “I’m just a dreamer; I’m just a storyteller,” while in another the 63-year-old singer (her birthday was Thursday) admits her desire to “wear feathers and lace.” Grade: A

Villagesoup - Ireland

By Tom Von Malder

STEVIE NICKS, ‘SOLDIER’S ANGEL’ – SONG REVIEW by @UltClassicRock:

Stevie Nicks has a special message for our armed forces in the form of her new single ‘Soldier’s Angel,’ which appears on her current ‘In Your Dreams’ album and has just been released on the edge of Memorial Day Weekend.

Nicks found inspiration for the song from her many visits with returning veterans at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval Hospital, writing the track as way to honor those men and women who have served our country.

“I am a soldier’s angel / Through the eyes of a soldier / Through the eyes of a soldier / I am a soldier’s mother / Through the eyes of an angel / I am a soldier myself / And no one walks away from this battle.” Against the backdrop of a singular electric guitar, an unvarnished vocal from Nicks, naked and void of any polish or effect, considers the unique position of each person and how they’re affected by the effects of war and the absence of their loved ones.

Read the full review at Ultimate Classic Rock

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(Review) Rollingstone Magazine - Stevie Nicks The Wiltern May 26, 2011

 Stevie Nicks Jams Classics and New Material in Two-Hour L.A. Show
Former Fleetwood Mac frontwoman joined onstage by Lindsey Buckingham, Dave Stewart

By MIKAEL WOOD
MAY 27, 2011
Rollingstone Magazine

Last night at the Wiltern in Los Angeles Stevie Nicks performed at a star-studded concert in celebration of In Your Dreams, her first solo album in a decade. But yesterday the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman also turned 63, and a table full of miniature cupcakes greeted showgoers entering the historic venue, which Nicks said the Mac used for rehearsals back in 1975.

It wasn't the only reminder that this still-potent style icon has been a rock star for longer than Lady Gaga has been alive: Nicks treated Thursday's two-hour show like an in-person episode of VH1's Storytellers, explaining how new tunes such as "Annabel Lee" and "For What It's Worth" connect to classics like "Dreams." "It's all one big thread," she said, a point driven home when Lindsey Buckingham arrived onstage to help her play "Soldier's Angel," a haunting In Your Dreams cut inspired by a trip Nicks took to the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center. (Mick Fleetwood made the scene last night, though he didn't perform.)

(Billboard Review) Stevie Nicks Live at The Wiltern + Video of Opening Number "Stand Back"

Stevie Nicks Shares Songwriting Stories at Star-Studded L.A. Show
Billboard Magazine
by Phil Gallo

At a packed Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday (May 26) where the audience included Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Reese Witherspoon and Andy Garcia, Stevie Nicks took advantage of a rare night in which musicians who worked on her first album in a decade, "In Your Dreams," were on hand to make cameo appearances. Nicks, who was celebrating her 63rd birthday, told the audience at the top of the show that she would be telling songwriting tales, even if it meant the show would last three hours and they would beg her to hush up and sing.

It didn't last that long -- she put in a nice two hours, 10 minutes -- but she did have a good number of stories, some whimsical, some historical and none more poignant than the one behind "Soldier's Angel."

One day in 2005, Nicks spent seven hours visiting wounded soldiers at a hospital and, on her way out, an emergency crew rushed in another set of the wounded. "I went in a girl and came out a changed woman," she told the audience.

The experience inspired her to write a poem that she had printed and handed out to soldiers for four years. In November of 2009, she was in London when seven British soldiers were killed in Iraq and media response in London was overwhelming; she wrote a four-page rant in her journal and eventually spent close to a year trying to turn the poem into a song. It never came to fruition.

"I have to call Lindsey," she said, which led them to completing "Soldier's Angel." Buckingham joined Nicks for an acoustic rendering of the tune, with the occasional roll of drums, that became the emotional high point of the show.

"Soldier's Angel" was one of eight songs from the new album performed, each of them explained in detail. "Annabel Lee," written when Nicks was 17, was inspired by an Edgar Alan Poe poem; "Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)" shares a through line with "Lady From the Mountain"; "For What It's Worth" was written about her summer riding the bus across the U.S. with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. (Heartbreaker guitarist Mike Campbell joined the band for the tune). Nicks called it "the best summer of my life-and you can interpret that any way you like."

"Secret Love," one of several songs to feature Stewart as guest guitarist, was written in 1975, recorded on a cassette and eventually bootlegged many times over. The country-tinged duet "Cheaper Than Free" sprang from a comment Witherspoon made to Nicks and Stewart - she was offering her Nashville condo to Stewart for a couple of weeks, making it "cheaper than free."

Her six-piece band led by Waddy Wachtel and two background singers backed Nicks, who got her bearings straight after a rocky opening half-hour. At the opening of the show, she explained the importance of the Wiltern in her career: In early 1975, it was the venue where she and Buckingham first rehearsed with the other members of Fleetwood Mac - Christine McVie, John McVie and Fleetwood - having joined the band on New Year's Eve 1974.

Here is the set list to Stevie Nicks' Wiltern show:

"Stand Back"
"Annabel Lee"
"Dreams"
"Sorcerer"
"Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)"
"Gold Dust Woman"
"Ghosts are Gone"
"Soldier's Angel"
"In Your Dreams"
"Rhiannon"
"For What It's Worth"
"Secret Love"
"Fall From Grace"
"Cheaper Than Free"
"Drums"
"Edge of Seventeen"

Encore:

"Love Is"