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Lindsey Buckingham, of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Fleetwood Mac, comes to Carmel.

By Adam Joseph

Next Thursday, Buckingham will perform a one-man show at the Sunset Center featuring Fleetwood classics and tunes from his personal library. 


Though he’s most widely recognized for Fleetwood Mac hits like “Go Your Own Way” and “Dreams,” many of Buckingham’s solo efforts have gained acclaim, including Under the Skin, which was named one of the Top 50 albums of 2006 by Rolling Stone. The Los Angeles Times called his most recent effort Seeds We Sow (his third in five years), “a blend of midlife introspection and limousine-liberal hand-wringing.”


Though Buckingham’s solo work – including his newest – bring elements of Fleetwood Mac’s airy folk feel, they also reflect his expanding musical tastes inspired by bands like Phoenix, the Dirty Projectors and Arcade Fire.


 Full Article - Monterey County Weekly


LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM performs 7:30pm Thursday, May 10, at Sunset Center, San Carlos Street at Ninth, Carmel. $58; $68; $78. 620-2048.

Happy One Year Anniversary Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams"

On this day one year ago, May 3rd, Stevie Nicks released her critically acclaimed 7th solo album "In Your Dreams" her first album of new material in 10 years!.  A monumental occasion!  

A huge thank you to Stevie for a truly awesome album...and also a huge thanks to Dave Stewart for helping Stevie write and record in a new way... The results couldn't be better! It was well worth the 10 year wait!  One year out and I still think it's probably one of the best, if not the best things she's ever done!  

The one thing left to complete this evolution will be the release of the In Your Dreams Documentary on the making of the album... When that will be nobody seems to know yet... Last I heard they were searching for a distributor... Hopefully it won't be another 10 year wait.

LIMITED FAN EDITION... 
STILL AVAILABLE

If you missed your chance when the album was first released to pick up a version of the album with the added bonus track "My Heart".  You're in luck! The Warner Bros. store still has copies of the Limited Fan Edition that includes the extra track, PLUS the 16 x 20 Lithograph of the album cover (Photo by Kristin Burns) that comes with the package deal.  Price is $24.99 plus shipping.  All credit cards + Paypal welcome.

Warner Bros. Records Store

Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham plays Sunset Center May 10 in Carmel, CA

Singer/songwriter and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac fame performs Thursday, May 10, at the Sunset Center in Carmel.

By BETH PEERLESS Herald Correspondent

The contrast between indie singer/ songwriter Lindsey Buckingham and his role as guitarist/lead singer in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group Fleetwood Mac couldn't be more pronounced.

Yet Buckingham juggles both with enthusiasm, and embraces the changes that have gone down around his solo work. Away from major label Warner Bros. for the first time in 30 years, he released "Seeds We Sow" on his newly minted indie label Mind Kit.

Full Article - Monterey Herald

Tickets: $58, $68, $78, available at 620-2048, ticketsvcs@ sunsetcenter.org and www.sunset center.tix.com

aDealio Los Angeles: $25 to See Lindsey Buckingham at The Wiltern on May 4th

Limited Time offer via aDealio Los Angeles

$25 to See Lindsey Buckingham at The Wiltern on May 4 at 8 p.m. (Up to $62.50 Value)

Limit 8 per person. Redeem on day of show for a ticket at The Wiltern box office. Must show valid ID matching name on Groupon at The Wiltern.

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Documentary: FLEETWOOD MAC - DON'T STOP Airing on BBC4 May 4th

FLEETWOOD MAC - DON'T STOP
This 2009 Documentary originally aired on the BBC just ahead of Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed tour dates in the UK and Ireland.  

The Documentary takes a look back over the band's long career, from the early blues outfit led by Peter Green in the late 1960s, to their reincarnation in the 1970s with the line-up that went on to record the 40-million-selling album Rumours. Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks reveal the truth behind the successes, failures and relationships that have characterised their music and made them one of the most enduring acts in popular music.

Airing on BBC4 Friday, May 4, 2012 9:00pm

Airing on BBC4 Saturday, May 5, 2012 1:25am

Excerpt 1

Excerpt 2 | Excerpt 3

REVIEW

Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop lacked the caustic edge of the Rock Family Trees film about the band from 1995. That contained some great stuff about the fake Fleetwood Mac launched by their former manager Clifford Davis, true confessions from ex-guitarist Bob Weston about his affair with Mick Fleetwood's wife, and the one about addled guitar hero Peter Green wandering around with pieces of cheese in his hair. But inevitably director Matt O'Casey's new film had the advantage of being able to bring the story up to date, notably in a bittersweet coda reflecting on the still-unbridged chasm between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

For all the doggedness of founding father Mick Fleetwood, who increasingly resembles a castaway from a tropical island - funnily enough, he now lives in Hawaii, along with original bassist John McVie - the Mac became the biggest band of their era because of Buckingham and Nicks. Of all the inter-band traumas, theirs was the most spectacular, intense and creative, and it still bites both of them hard to this day.

Nicks, in particular, wasn't pulling any punches. It hurt her when Buckingham wrote "Go Your Own Way" about her, and it still does: "Ladylike, prudish Stevie, which I am, was very offended by him saying 'shacking up is all you want to do', because I was not in any kind of shacking up mood. I was not shacking up with anybody."

By all accounts Buckingham has always been a gifted but bloody difficult band-mate - "one of those people that will go up on the cross to make a point, and die," as Nicks put it - but marriage and children have given him some equilibrium. Yet his history with teenage sweetheart Stevie is still a weeping scab. "Maybe in 10 or 15 years when Lindsey and I are 75, we'll be friends again, when Fleetwood Mac is a distant memory," she said wistfully. But like the Flying Dutchman, maybe the Mac can never stop.

Written by: Adam Sweeting

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Charts: Fleetwood Mac US | UK | Australia | New Zealand | Canada | Netherlands + Stevie Nicks

Fleetwood Mac Catalogue Album and digital track sales move south this week in the US.

USA - Week ending April22, 2012

Top 200 Albums Chart:

Rumours drops off Billboards Top 200 Albums chart this week after re-entering the chart last week at #162.

Top 200 Catalogue Albums & Top 200 Digital Catalogue Albums:

During the sales period in the US running from April 16th through April 22nd Rumours fell 39% dropping from #33 to #134 this week.  Sales for the period were 1,864 vs 3,046 the previous week.  Total sales in the US since November, 1991 = 2,950,328.  

On the Top 200 Catalogue Digital Albums list Rumours moves from #11 to #51 with total digital sales of 1,208 vs 2,491 the previous week. Greatest Hits drops 2% to #189 from #158 last week on sales of 1,519 vs 1,550 the previous week. Total accumulated sales since November, 1991 = 4,542,005.  Greatest Hits on the Top 200 Catalogue Albums list moves from #114 down to #132 on digital sales of 702 vs 740 the previous week.

Top 200 Digital Catalogue Tracks:

Edge of Seventeen drops below the top 200 running this week and therefore does not chart.  The song would have had to sell at least 3,926 units for the week to make the chart. Landslide on the other hand, holds on, but dropping in sales significantly by 31%.  Sales for the week were 4,512 vs 6,576 the previous week.  The song lands at #155 on this weeks listing vs #85 last week.  It too will likely drop out of the top 200 by next week.  Total digital sales for Landslide = 856,260.

USA - April 22, 2012
TOP 200 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 134  (33) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 189 (158) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 200 CATALOGUE DIGITAL ALBUMS CHART
# 51   (11) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 132 (114) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 200 CATALOGUE DIGITAL TRACKS CHART
# 155 (85) Fleetwood Mac - Landslide

UK  - May 5, 2012
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 82 (68) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS - April 28, 2012
# 7 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

IRELAND - April 26, 2012
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 80 (55) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

THE NETHERLANDS - April 28, 2012
TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 45 (44) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

AUSTRALIA - April 30 2012
TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 34 (34) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

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