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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Lindsey Buckingham Speaks To Rollingstone: New Album, 50 Date Tour, Buckingham Nicks + Fleetwood Mac
Lindsey Buckingham: Fleetwood Mac Will Return Next Year
Source:
Rollingstone
By ANDY GREENE
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| Photo by: Jeremy Cowart |
"Working in a band is a lot like what I imagine making movies is like," says Lindsey Buckingham. "It's political and it takes a lot of verbalization to get from point A to point B. When I work alone, it's more like painting. You are one with the canvas and it's a subconscious, meditative process."
Recording his new disc Seeds We Sow (out September 6th on his own label) in his home studio, Buckingham really worked alone: producing, engineering, singing and playing nearly every instrument. "Most days I'd wake up, have my coffee, do my crossword puzzle and get there by 10:30 a.m.," he tells Rolling Stone. "And work through dinnertime. I didn't come up for air unless I had to."
Buckingham says that he didn't begin consciously writing the songs on Seeds We Sow with any sort of a theme in mind, but when he finished the disc he discovered a common thread running through his lyrics. "The songs are all about the accumulation of choices that we make everyday and the karmic part of that – which is where the title Seeds We Sow comes from," he says. "In my own life I've made a lot of choices that weren't always popular with people around me. Only in the last few years have I been able to look at them with the perspective of time." (The only non-original track on the album is the Rolling Stones' 1967 deep cut "She Smiled Sweetly.")
Buckingham is kicking off a 50-date theater tour this fall,
mixing songs from the new disc, hits and lesser-known gems from his career. "People would probably run me out on a rail if I didn't do a few Fleetwood Mac songs," he says. "We'll do 'Big Love,' 'Never Going Back Again,' 'Tusk' and we gotta do 'Go Your Own Way.' That's about it though."
And Fleetwood Mac are likely to hit the road again next year. "We're doing something for sure," Buckingham says. "I wouldn't be shocked if it was a tour and possibly an album. We'll have to wait and see. Nothing is on the books right now. With Fleetwood Mac, there's a lot of landmines out there politically and it's hard to get everybody on the same page at the same time – but I think this might be one of those years where everyone will want to do the same thing. Whatever that is."
Buckingham Nicks
In addition to a tour, Fleetwood Mac fans have been long hoping that Lindsey and Stevie's 1973 LP Buckingham Nicks eventually will be released on CD. "We keep talking about that," says Buckingham. "It's been a victim of inertia. It's funny, I spent a lot of time with Stevie this year when she was finishing her album and we were getting along great. We have every intention of putting that album back out and possibly even doing something along with it, but I can't put any specifics on that."
Might they tour as a duo again? "I think that would be great!" says Buckingham. "I wouldn't do anything other than speculate at this point, but I think it would be tremendous fun and a different kind of thing for both of us. And it would certainly be something circular in that we'd be meeting up right where we started."
Source:
Rollingstone
By ANDY GREENE
STEVIE NICKS Confirmed for Sept 7th Buddy Holly Concert
September 6th marks the date that Listen To Me: Buddy Holly a tribute album is released in which Stevie's remake of "Not Fade Away" appears. On September 7th - Buddy's Birthday - will be officially declared Buddy Holly Day in Los Angeles. On this day Buddy will receive his first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That evening the celebration will moves to The Music Box in Hollywood for a special invitation-only concert and birthday party with special guest performances of Holly's music by many artists who have been influenced by and love Holly's music, as well as friends and family members from Holly's life.
The concert event will be filmed in HD for a PBS special airing in December 2011.
Artists confirmed include: Paul Anka, Michelle Branch, Chris Isaak, Lyle Lovett, Raul Malo, Graham Nash, Stevie Nicks, Boz Scaggs, Patrick Stump and more.
Lindsey Buckingham Belfast December 16th Waterfront Hall Auditorium
Waterfront Hall Auditorium - Belfast
Fri 16 Dec 2011, 19:30
Price Range: £375.00
Meet & Greet with Sound includes:
- Exclusive Meet & Greet with Lindsey Buckingham before or after the show (time tbc)
- Attendance at the Sound Check
- Front row ticket to see Lindsey Buckingham live in concert
- Photo opportunity
- Signing opportunity
- Official tour programme
- Commemorative VIP laminate
- Event Manager in attendance
Lindsey Buckingham - Sound Check
Waterfront Hall Auditorium - Belfast
Fri 16 Dec 2011, 19:30
Price Range: £225.00
Sound check includes:
- Exclusive opportunity to attend the Sound Check
- Ticket in the first three rows to see Lindsey Buckingham live in concert
- Official tour programme
- Commemorative VIP laminate
- Event Manager in attendance
Lindsey Buckingham in Dublin Ireland December?
From the looks of it we have a Ireland/UK leg of the Seeds We Sow Tour coming together. A December 15th date is showing up on Ticketmaster.ie first tweeted about by The Irish Times writer Jim Carroll. So far it's listed as not an actual show (yet) but as a "Soundcheck" and also a listing for a Meet and Greet:
Lindsey Buckingham - Sound Check
Olympia Theatre - Dublin
Thu 15 Dec 2011, 19:30
Price Range: €259.00
Sound check includes:
- Exclusive opportunity to attend the Sound Check
- Ticket in the first three rows to see Lindsey Buckingham live in concert
- Official tour programme
- Commemorative VIP laminate
- Event Manager in attendance
Lyndsey Buckingham - Meet & Greet
Olympia Theatre - Dublin
Thu 15 Dec 2011, 19:30
Price Range: €429.00
Meet & Greet with Sound includes:
- Exclusive Meet & Greet with Lindsey Buckingham before or after the show (time tbc)
- Attendance at the Sound Check
- Front row ticket to see Lindsey Buckingham live in concert
- Photo opportunity
- Signing opportunity
- Official tour programme
- Commemorative VIP laminate
- Event Manager in attendance
The December 19th London date that I've heard about could actually be true... Hope so! This will be a first for Lindsey and something fans in the UK and Ireland have wanted for a long time.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Lindsey Buckingham Seeds We Sow Review
by: Nick DeRiso
"You keep waiting for Lindsey Buckingham, the old rebel, to soften into middle-aged acceptance, to conform. This isn’t that record. Credit Buckingham for never trading true emotion for sentiment. Seeds We Sow is as hard eyed as it is musically ambitious — beginning with its abruptly confessional album-opening title track."
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Album Review: Lindsey Buckingham "Seeds We Sow" 4 (out of 5)
Lindsey Buckingham "Seeds We Sow"
Download: In Our Own Time; That’s the Way Love Goes
RATING: 4 (out of 5)
BY DARRYL STERDAN
QMI Agency (Canadian Press)
syndicated across Canada in all major publications
Buckingham gone to seed? Not a chance. Like its predecessors, the Mac daddy’s superb sixth solo CD is a DIY affair, with LB layering his precise needlepoint fingerpicking and high-whispery vocals atop beatboxes, sparse instrumentation and home-studio sonics. Add some sharp folk-rock cuts about karma and you’ve got the best album Mac didn’t make this year. What up wit dat?
RATING: 4 (out of 5)
BY DARRYL STERDAN
QMI Agency (Canadian Press)
syndicated across Canada in all major publications
CHART UPDATES:: Fleetwood Mac & Stevie Nicks
AUSTRALIACHARTS FOR THE WEEK AUGUST 29, 2011
(Previous week in parenthesis)
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART:
# 92 (84) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"
TOP 50 CATALOGUE CHART:
# 8 (6) Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of"
# 18 (32) Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits" # 30 (25) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"
# 33 (-) Stevie Nicks "Crystal Vision, The Very Best Of" (Chart re-entry)
TOP 40 DVD CHART:
# 22 (22) Fleetwood Mac "The Dance"IRELAND
CHARTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 25, 2011
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART:
# 73 (94) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"
TOP 10 DVD CHART:
# 9 (-) Fleetwood Mac "Live in Boston" (Chart re-entry)
UK
CHART FOR THE WEEK SEPTEMBER 3, 2011
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART:
# 97 (72) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"
TOP 40 CATALOGUE CHARTS:
# 7 (16) Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours"
THE NETHERLANDS
WEEK ENDING AUGUST 27, 2011
TOP 50 CATELOGUE CHARTS:
# 18 (13) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"
Saturday, August 27, 2011
ALBUM REVIEW - LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM: SEEDS WE SOW
The Mac maverick goes his own way, again. Lush and reflective... by Piers Martin
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For almost four decades, on and off, Lindsey Buckingham has been the driving force behind one of the world’s biggest bands, Fleetwood Mac.
He is the charismatic architect of Rumours and Tusk, whose songs are familiar to millions, yet it’s often the case that many Mac nuts, particularly outside the US, would be hard-pushed to name one of the guitarist’s five solo albums, let alone pick a highlight from any of them.
That doubtless says more about the fairweather nature of the band’s conservative fanbase, though to his credit, Buckingham, one of the more gifted players of his generation, has never appeared to crave attention even though he’s spent his career in the spotlight. Cast as a maverick when he indulged various eccentric recording methods for 1979’s landmark Tusk, the tag has stuck.
As a solo artist, Buckingham is, at the age of 61, enjoying a fine run of form. Seeds We Sow is his third album in five years, following 2006’s Under The Skin and 2008’s Gift Of Screws, records which the Californian singer-songwriter discovered were welcomed by a new audience who’d been enchanted by Fleetwood Mac’s surprisingly harmonious 2003 reunion and tour after 16 years apart. Their comeback set, Say You Will, from that year, was solid enough, its best song a tumbling, guitar-speckled Buckingham number called “Red Rover”. In concert, too, his solo rendition of “Big Love” illustrated the range of his exquisite fretwork and power of his star-crossed vocal. Comparison with Stevie Nicks’ latest solo effort is unnecessary, so let’s just say Buckingham’s passion for his craft is obvious.
Lindsey Buckingham set for Lorain Palace in fall
The Morning Journal
Lindsey Buckingham, who earned a spot in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with Fleetwood Mac, winning countless awards defined the sound of rock for the last three decades, will be coming to the Lorain Palace Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6.
His concert is part of Time Warner Cable Music: Sessions series.
“It’s our working relationship with the Live Nation (promotion company),” Lorain Palace general manager John Handyside said about his local venue landing a top-tier booking such as Buckingham.
“That’s what we’re hoping, that this will be a successful test of bringing in A-list attractions for the future.”
Buckingham is regarded as the predominant musical force behind such Fleetwood Mac albums as “Rumours” and the innovative “Tusk.” He has created a critically acclaimed body of solo work that yielded the hits. Trouble,” “Go Insane” and “Holiday Road.”
Buckingham’s sixth solo album, “Seeds We Show,” showcases Buckingham’s full arsenal of skills — from the soft melodic pop-rock tinge of “End Of Time” and the album’s most rocking track, “One Take,” to the touching “When She Comes Down” and the lullaby feel and hushed tones of “She Smiles Sweetly.
Tickets are $29.50 to $75, available online a www.LorainPalace.com and www.livenation.com. Loge seating (with food) is $250 for four.
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