Gift of Screws Release Date September 16, 2008

According to Amazon.com Lindsey's "Gift of Screws" will be released on September 16, 2008. No track listing is available yet or the album art work.... After reading that he was looking for a distributor for the album - the Amazon listing shows that it's being released through Warners, whether he's resigned with Warners for anything more then this release it's unclear.

Lindsey Buckingham Isn't Screwing Around

Monday, Jul 7, 2008

Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham has announced dates for a six-week fall tour of the U.S. with one Canadian stop thrown in.

The 27-city Gift of Screws Tour kicks off September 7 at The Mountain Winery in Saratoga, Calif., and wraps October 19 at Nokia Theatre Times Square in New York City.

Other stops include Moore Theatre in Seattle (September 9), Royce Hall Auditorium in Los Angeles (September 14), The Joint in Las Vegas (September 20), The Pageant in St. Louis (September 29), Murat Egyptian Room in Indianapolis (October 5), Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City, N.J. (October 11), and Berklee Performance Center in Boston (October 17).

Further details, including ticket onsale dates, will be available at LindseyBuckingham.com in the coming weeks.

In March, Buckingham released Live at The Bass Performance Hall in CD and DVD formats. The disc documents a performance on the singer's 2006-2007 tour in support of his last solo project, Under The Skin.

Buckingham is reportedly working out distribution details for a new album due later this summer.

Stevie Nicks - Jones Beach Photos 2008 Tour

Jones Beach Amphitheater - June 28, 2008

Photos by: Wayne Herrschaft

Lindsey Buckingham maps summer road trip

Lindsey Buckingham has lined up a headlining tour this fall as the Fleetwood Mac singer/guitarist continues to work out distribution details for his next solo album.

Buckingham, who mounted his first solo tour in almost 14 years last spring behind his 2006 release, "Under the Skin," will kick off the fall trek Sept. 7 in Saratoga, CA.
The 27-date outing includes a lengthy West Coast leg through much of September before heading on to the Midwest and eventually ending in the East. Details are included below.

Buckingham's most recent studio set, "Under the Skin" follows 1992's "Out of the Cradle." The singer said he was inspired to get to work on his latest solo effort after reuniting with Fleetwood Mac for 2003's "Say You Will."

The musician told Billboard.com earlier this year that he's planning another solo album for release later this summer, one that he recorded with members of his touring band along with Fleetwood Mac bandmates Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.

The forthcoming album "has a little more of a rock feel to it" than "Under the Skin," Buckingham said. "It's just another group of tunes that hopefully will translate to stage, and hopefully we can get some more [solo] dates this summer." The singer has also told various interviewers in recent months that he hopes Fleetwood Mac will mount a tour behind a new studio album next year.

Earlier this year, Buckingham released "Live at the Bass Performance Hall," a live DVD documenting the musician's performance last year at the Fort Worth, TX, venue. The package is available in a bonus set that includes more than 45 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage, and an accompanying audio CD with the same track listing as the DVD.


September 2008
7 - Saratoga, CA - Mountain Winery
9 - Seattle, WA - Moore Theatre
10 - Portland, OR - Newmark Theatre
12 - Lake Tahoe, CA - Harrah's Casino
13 - San Francisco - Venue to be announced
14 - Los Angeles, CA - Royce Hall @ UCLA
16 - San Diego, CA - Humphrey's Concerts By the Bay
18 - Phoenix, AZ - The Orpheum Theatre
19 - Anaheim, CA - The Grove of Anaheim
20 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint
22 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
24 - Denver, CO - Opera House
26 - Tulsa, OK - Brady Theatre
28 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theatre
29 - St Louis, MO - Pageant

October 2008
1 - Cleveland, OH - House of Blues
2 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues
4 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theatre
5 - Indianapolis, IN - Eygptian Theatre
8 - Toronto, Ontario - Music Hall
10 - Reading, PA - Sovereign Performing Arts Center
11 - Atlantic City, NJ - Trump Taj Mahal
14 - Northampton, MA - Calvin Theatre
15 - Ridgefield, CT - Ridgefield Play House
17 - Boston, MA - Berklee Performing Arts Center
18 - Glenside, PA - Keswick Theater
19 - New York, NY - Nokia Theatre

Shots of Holmdel, NJ show.

Pics from the last show... Holmdel, NJ - June 29, 2008.

Photos Courtesy of: john214x (the ledge)

Nicks lacks spark

Nicks lacks spark
By Bill Thompson
June 26, 2008

Stevie Nicks brought a treasure trove to National City Pavilion Thursday night.

It included a handful of legendary songs (“Rhiannon,” “Dreams,” “Gold Dust Woman” and “Edge of Seventeen”), a dazzling array of shawls, vintage video that chronicled her career since she joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975, and photographs that paid homage to her late father, Jess.

She also brought a talented 10-piece band and more than 30 years of experience as a big-time rock star.

What she didn’t bring, however, was a spark; that certain something that sets a concert apart from a rote reading of greatest hits.

The majority of the 3,000-plus fans didn’t seem to mind. They stood and cheered from the first notes of “Stand Back,” yelped when she went into her patented twirling dervish moves (made even ... twirlier ... by silhouette lighting), and waited patiently during extended instrumental breaks while she changed from a black dress to a white one, then a different white one.

Folks love their Stevie, and it’s not surprising. She’s the real deal, a bona-fide Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer-songwriter who was at the core of one of the most popular bands of all time.

But that’s precisely the reason she should be held to a higher standard. Even though Nicks turned 60 last month (she’s closer to the edge of seventy than seventeen), she’s still in fine voice. But the stage show settled for ritual -- an interminable trip across the front of the stage to shake hands with every member of the front row of the audience while a security guard held her from behind -- instead of a passionate performance of those classic tunes, which had women in the crowd high-fiving each other despite the lackluster delivery.

Nicks has settled for a comfortable niche instead of searching for that inner vixen that helped to fuel the phoenix that was Fleetwood Mac in its heyday. In a way, it’s understandable. She’s worked hard, and if the rumors are close to true, lived hard as well. She deserves to enjoy her success.

But it would be great to see some of the fire in her eyes that you hear in her voice on songs such as “Silver Springs” and “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.”

Ironically, it was during the simplest song of the night that Nicks allowed a peek behind the scripted banter. After dedicating “Landslide” to her father, she sang loud and clear accompanied by longtime compadre Waddy Wachtel on acoustic guitar, as the photos of her life flashed across the background.

Moments like those are what gives one hope that she will dig deeper to uncover her treasures next time around.