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May 5, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: The Lonesome Death of Bob Welch

Bob Welch was a very good guitar player He wrote plenty of great songs, worked well with Christine McVie; the two sharing the songwriting duties as Fleetwood Mac moved around a lot and tried to find itself in the wake of its blues musicians and shaman leader wandering off. Between 1971 and 1974 a lot […]
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February 24, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Time Casts Its Spell: When Silver Springs Became The Secret Weapon It Had Always Threatened To Be

Stevie Nicks is told that her song Silver Springs won’t make the cut. The band is making Rumours which – we all know now – does pretty well. She leaves it in the vault for 20 years, takes it out, dusts it off, decides it’s time to bring it to life. She runs it by […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Fleetwood Mac, FM, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Lindsey Buckingham, Rumours, Silver Springs, Stevie Nicks, Time Casts Its Spell, Time Casts Its Spell: Silver Springs Becomes A Secret Weapon, Time Casts Its Spell: When Silver Springs Became The Secret Weapon It Had Always Threatened To Be, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, When Silver Springs Became The Secret Weapon It Had Always Threatened To Be ·

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February 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

The Soap-Opera of Fleetwood Mac

The soap-opera of Fleetwood Mac has had me hooked since I was about 10 or 12. There was a doco – a bit  of late-night music-TV – that filled in all the blanks. I was already a fan, but I had no idea how the same band that sang Sara and Sweet Little Lies had jammed out an instrumental called Albatross.    My brother recorded […]
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December 9, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Some Albums That Got Me Into The Blues: The Starter Kit

I’m up watching a doco – Blind Willie’s Blues. I love blues. The best blues. The good blues. The true blues. But I hardly ever write about it. There’s a funny relationship between me and blues music. I do not go to blues-club meetings, there are a lot of local blues bands that have sent […]
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November 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Lindsey Buckingham: Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Buckingham Lindsey Buckingham Rhino I was so excited about this album I did something I don’t normally do and couldn’t keep up with if it became the norm: I wrote a gushing “preview” basically suggesting the greatness of the album and anticipating it after just one listen, also surveying the past solo catalogue.
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October 27, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: The Continuing Saga of Loving Fleetwood Mac

Some nights, listening to Fleetwood Mac is all I want to do and almost enough – why bother with any other music. They were a blues band and a musical soap-opera too, a stadium monolith, all those songs they sing at one another as much as at any audience – and then there’s the ‘lost […]
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October 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Silver Springs

Stevie Nicks gets told her song won’t make the cut. She leaves it in the vault for 20 years, takes it out, dusts it off, decides it’s time to bring it to life. She runs it by Lindsey. It’s got lyrics about how she would have loved him if he would only have let her. […]
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September 20, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

In Praise of ‘Lindsey Buckingham’

Lindsey Buckingham has a brand new solo album available. It’s called Lindsey Buckingham. By the time you read this I might have heard it four or five times – but as I’m writing this, I’m hearing it for the first time. I’m so excited about this. I have been for months. Lindsey Buckingham is one […]
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August 6, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

In Praise of Reading About Fleetwood Mac

In celebrating Bob Dylan’s 80th I thought of the dozens of great books I’ve read about him (and a few pretty average ones). I’ll never read them all. There are thousands. But maybe I’ve read 40-50. The Beatles have inspired the most books of any musician – apart from maybe Elvis Presley. And I’ve read […]
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May 26, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Listening To Tusk, Thinking It’s The Greatest

Five years old and listening to Tusk – thinking it’s the greatest album, well to be fair I really just love the title track. When the drums go bananas I think of Animal from The Muppet Show. He’s my absolute hero. Ten years old and listening to Tusk – thinking it’s the greatest album, well […]
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July 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Peter Green

Peter Green has died. He was 73. The creator of Fleetwood Mac. One of the fathers of the British blues boom – and sound – a tormented soul, a talented player, by default a brilliant bandleader, it wasn’t an easy road at all for Green and he was one of the first prominent “casualties” of […]
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June 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 104

Fleetwood Mac, Need Your Love So Bad [Single] (1969) A Facebook chum messages. Says he’s found a double-up in his collection and would I like to have it. It’s only Need Your Love So Bad by Fleetwood Mac. Of course I’d fucking love it! It arrives – and it plays just fine. Any tiny little […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [45], 1969, Album, Blues, British, Chris Moody, EP, Fleetwood Mac, Need Your Love So Bad, No Place To Go, Record, Single, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 104, Vinyl ·
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