Fleetwood Mac — Tusk
Back in 2003, I wrote on my blog: “Mr. Johnson has never actually listened to all of ‘Tusk,’ but he is thinking of doing so.” It took me another five years before I did,...
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Fleetwood Mac — Rumours
What can I possibly say about one of the best, and best-selling, albums of all time? It was remarkable then, it’s remarkable now. Released in February, 1977, the winter of my junior year in...
Fleetwood Mac — Fleetwood Mac
This self-titled release from 1975 wasn’t their only self-titled release: their first album, from 1968, also carried only the band’s name. It’s a bit of a surprising decision — while they had been plodding...
Fleetwood Mac — Kiln House
I don’t know how it is that we have to keep reminding people that there was a Fleetwood Mac before Steve Nicks, before Lindsey Buckingham, even before Christine McVie. But apparently we do. So,...
Fleetwood Mac in Chicago
Looking through my new acquisitions shelf, I’m realizing that I have bought a lot of blues in the past several years. Hell, I’ve bought a lot of blues in the last several months. These...
Fleetwood Mac — [Peter Green’s] Fleetwood Mac
As a teenager in the years when Fleetwood Mac absolutely ruled the airwaves, when “Fleetwood Mac” and “Rumours” were absolutely inescapable, I was fully aware that there had been earlier records and earlier iterations...
Fleetwood Mac — Mr. Wonderful
Coming of age at the time when Fleetwood Mac was huge, I of course knew that there was a pre-Buckingham Nicks version of the band. Those earlier albums were all over the used record...
Ella Fitzgerald — Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cole Porter
I don’t have a lot to say about this one, primarily because we picked it out of the Forever Changes dollar bin last year entirely for the cover. I’m not a jazz guy, not...
The First Things — A Nation of Employees
This has to be one of the more obscure records in my collection — obscure enough that I had to create its entry in Discogs. I mentioned a cool kid named Pete Kates once...
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