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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
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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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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