REVIEW - STEVIE NICKS: IN YOUR DREAMS (REPRISE) "Poetic, majestic, delicious" ★★★★/5

Nicks, the eccentric Fleetwood Mac vocalist, is back with her first album in a decade to prove that her strange, iconic voice is everything it ever was, even at the age of 63.

The first single from the album Secret Love was originally written in 1976 for Mac’s masterpiece Rumours.

Put together with new songs such as the one she was inspired to write when a group of British soldiers were killed in Iraq, it forms a real thing of beauty. Poetic, majestic, delicious.

By Simon Gage
Express.co.uk

EURYTHMICS co-founder Dave Stewart must be one of the hardest-working rockers in the business.

With half the new Stevie Nicks album bearing his name and a new Joss Stone offering coming later this month you cannot help but wonder how he found time to round up the talent and lay down the tracks for this new project.

Including songs he wrote with Bob Dylan and collaborations with Stone and Nicks and Martina McBride, it’s a high-quality, bluesy, American-flavoured affair with Dave himself sounding like the veteran music man he really is.

By Simon Gage
Express.co.uk

STEVIE NICKS In Your Dreams (Reprise) ★★★★✩ "In Stevie's world, it's always Avalon or Camelot, fair maids and dashing knights"

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London Evening Standard

STEVIE NICKS In Your Dreams (Reprise)
★★★★✩

The pop world goes through its phases but it's good to find that Miss Nicks stays resolutely the same. In Your Dreams has on its cover a photograph of Stevie in flowing skirt leading a pure white horse through a forest, the sun flaring behind them. In Stevie's world, it's always Avalon or Camelot, fair maids and dashing knights. The soft rock is still in place, this time masterminded by our very own Dave Stewart. But what has always set Stevie apart continues to do so: that sexy, sassy voice is never drowned in a flood of cheap, hippy sentiment. Thus, songs such as Wide Sargasso Sea, Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream), Secret Love and the title track are borne along on undercurrents of sex and memories of wild times.

PETE CLARK

BBC Radio 4 with Kirsty Lang - Re-listen to her interview with Stevie Nicks

Earlier today Kirsty Lang interviewed Stevie Nicks on her show Frontrow... It's available on the BBC Radio 4 site to replay... 

Singer and songwriter, Stevie Nicks, discusses the influences behind her latest solo album of new material, In Your Dreams, her collaboration with Dave Stewart and her on-going relationship with her fellow band members in Fleetwood Mac.

Good interview!  The one major point she makes during the interview was that there are 4 editors working at this very moment on the documentary surrounding the filming of the album In Your Dreams... So it's still being processed.

She speaks about Lindsey and that he likes her new album and was touched to be asked to be on it (Soldier's Angel).  She also talks about Walter Reed and what she does for the Soldiers she visits.  Speaks about her lost years to Klonopin and how pissed off she is about and looking back at what she wrote during that period of time calling it crappy and shallow... Is asked a Twitter question about whether or not she sees Christine McVie or not now that she's out of Fleetwood Mac (She doesn't really answer that one)... All in all it was brief, but good, but seemed edited as Kirsty referred to Twitter questions sent in, meaning more than the one she asked... 

LISTEN NOW!

Stevie Nicks interview with Kirsty Lang - Frontrow BBC Radio 4 - 22/06/2011

First NEW Lindsey Buckingham Track Due Next Week!

According to a tweet by @brianoneal just a short time ago, the first track from Lindsey's new album "Seeds We Sow" will get some sort of release through Topspin, which is a technology-focused direct-to-fan marketing, management and distribution platform.  According to their facebook page, they help artists manage their catalogs, connect with fans and generate demand for music.

Cool!  So this could be the release of the first single "In Our Own Time"...

Album Review: Steve Nicks - In Your dreams ★★★ "Her voice remains a thing of beauty -- fragile and tough"

By John Meagher
Friday June 24 2011
Irish Independent

Okay, it's not Rumours -- Fleetwood Mac's breakup masterpiece from 1977 -- but Stevie Nicks' seventh album, and first in a decade, suggests her mojo is still very much intact.

Her voice remains a thing of beauty -- fragile and tough, often in the course of the same song. And it's this quality that makes Secret Love shine. The lead single was reportedly demoed for the aforementioned Rumours, before being discarded.

Several of the songs have been co-written with Eurythmics' Dave Stewart and a handful are really quite something, including the rousing, emotive For What It's Worth.

Burn it: Secret Love; For What It's Worth

Available in Ireland Today!  itunes

Stevie Nicks initially asked Dave Stewart to produce a Fleetwood Mac Album Prior to cutting "In Your Dreams"

Dave Stewart talks new album, The Blackbird Diaries, Stevie Nicks, Joss Stone, more...

Musicradar.com

Let's talk a bit about Stevie Nicks' album, In Your Dreams. I understand she sent you a collection of poems and you turned up at her door with a guitar intent on making a record with her.

"Well, kind of, but not exactly. Actually, she asked me if I'd be interested in producing a Fleetwood Mac album, and I said, 'I don't know.' Anyway, we started talking and I sent her the chords to a song called Everybody Loves You. I said, 'What do you think about this for you, and not Fleetwood Mac?' And she sent it back to me with her singing on it, and it was great. From there, yeah, she sent me a collection of her poems and lyrics. It was this huge, thick book. At that point, I knew we had something going.

"She's a totally focused person, very devoted to her music and the song she writes. She's made this her life, and because of that she's eliminated a lot of other elements from her existence, which she acknowledges. At one point, this doctor prescribed her these drugs, and when they didn't work, he kept upping the dose and upping the dose. Basically, Stevie feels as though she lost 10 years of her life. But she's very set on reclaiming that time and making it count. She's an incredible person."

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