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Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie Perform at Smart Financial Centre

On the heels of a sold-out critically acclaimed summer tour, longtime Fleetwood Mac members Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie announced the second leg of their North American tour. The pair will hit an additional 22 stops on this leg of the tour beginning in San Jose, CA and wrapping in Sugar Land, TX on November 16th at Smart Financial Centre.

Simply titled LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM/CHRISTINE McVIE, the 10-song album is available on CD, LP, and all digital and streaming services via Atlantic Records.

The collaboration began three years ago, when McVie rejoined Fleetwood Mac for the group's "On With The Show" tour. The pair went in to record new material prior to rehearsals for the tour and their natural creative chemistry was reignited. According to Buckingham, "We were exploring a creative process, and the identity of the project took on a life organically. The body of work felt like it was meant to be a duet album. We acknowledged that to each other on many occasions, and said to ourselves, 'what took us so long?!!'"

Working their natural singer songwriter skills together came easily for the duo. Said Christine McVie, "We've always written well together, Lindsey and I, and this has just spiraled into something really amazing that we've done between us."

Sessions for the album took place at The Village Studios in Los Angeles, which is where Fleetwood Mac recorded several of their classic albums, including Tusk. Buckingham and McVie were joined in the studio by fellow bandmates Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, who supplied much of the dynamic rhythmic engine.

"We bring out the best in each other," says Lindsey Buckingham of his longstanding musical connection with Christine McVie. "In a very real sense, that's always been the case. So in a way, it's amazing it took the two of us this long to figure that out and do something about it."

"There really have been decades of mutual respect between Lindsey and myself," says Christine. "We've had a lot of musical chemistry, and thankfully, not a lot of baggage. And now there's this new album we've made together that I hope and believe beautifully reflects all of the respect and chemistry we share."

Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie -- produced by Buckingham with Mark Needham and Mitchell Froom, and released by Atlantic Records -- is an altogether stunning song cycle that feels new and fresh, while at the same time conveying a deep sense of the shared history from this dynamic and accomplished duo already long connected in our hearts and minds as two links in "The Chain" of one the most enduring groups in all of rock history, Fleetwood Mac.

Yes, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie have known and admired each other going way back to the mid Seventies when he and Stevie Nicks first joined Christine, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie in Fleetwood Mac. But the origin story for this particular musical collaboration really began some three years ago when Christine McVie made the surprising and thrilling decision to rejoin the band that she did so much to help establish after more than a decade and a half away in self-imposed exile.

As part of the process of preparing to head out together for Fleetwood Mac's "On With The Show" World Tour, Buckingham and McVie kick-started the musical dynamic by exchanging some song ideas and demos and recording a few new tracks along with the band's legendary rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass.

"Before long, we were feeling a profound sense of reconnection," Buckingham recalls. "The music we were making somehow felt complete in itself, especially with the familiarity of Mick and John being the rhythm section there.

Sixteen years is a long time, and you might have expected that the creative moment had passed, and our paths were already defined. But it worked the opposite way. Because our individual journeys created an even better dynamic, and we had an interesting equation where one plus one ended up adding up to something else and something special."

For McVie, "there was something familiar going on when we started working together and something new too. The combination felt right. This was a way to work with old friends in a new way with true joy in the fact that we're all still here. I've always been well aware of Lindsey's genius. I clearly remember hearing his songs and Stevie's and thinking, well I had really better start upping my game. That's how good they were. I have always loved Lindsey's voice and his guitar playing, and as a producer, he has a unique way of bringing his genius not just to his songs, but to your songs too. Lindsey has a way of taking a good song and makes it great."

And now in the summer of 2017 as Buckingham and McVie prepare to head out on another significant first -- their first concert tour together in support of Lindsey Buckingham/ChristineMcVie -- both of the two distinguished singer-songwriters on either side of that / on the album cover seem genuinely happy and grateful to have this chance to make music together again.

"This has been one of the most joyful musical experiences of my life, and one that was a little unexpected," says Buckingham. "Making this album together and now heading out on tour, it's given me a chance to get to know Christine in a different way and become even better friends."

"I'm a band person," McVie says. "As a solo artist, I'm not as driven as most. Then I retired for sixteen years -- regrettably, perhaps. Yet then again, maybe there was a reason, the universe making me realize what making music means to me. I did not reunite for some matter of convenience. Lindsey -- and everyone in Fleetwood Mac --really has been my big, beautiful, crazy family, and I missed them, I missed making music with them. I missed their company. And I missed their faces, the way you do with family. That's why I've returned to music and rejoined the circus. Like the last song on this album says, it was time this carnival begins again."

 

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM/CHRISTINE MCVIE

SONG BY SONG WITH LINDSEY AND CHRISTINE

 

SLEEPING AROUND THE CORNER

"This song is one I wrote and recorded myself a few years back, but the moment I played it for Christine, she said, "Yes, please." So I reworked `Sleeping Around The Corner' a bit and added Christine's voice which, of course, makes everything better. -- LINDSEY

"This song is a total killer. As soon as Lindsey played it for me, what I actually said was, "What the hell is this? And can we please nick it for our album? And so we did." -- CHRISTINE

 

FEEL ABOUT YOU

"Love is a big subject for me. I have always written a lot of love songs. Very often the songs are about other people's lives, and I use them to step into someone else's shoes and sing what I imagine they're thinking. Why so many love songs? I suppose it's because I like songs that make people feel good, and what can make us feel better than love?" -- CHRISTINE

"This song changed a lot from how it started when Christine first sent it to me. As rock stars go, Christine is unusually collaborative -- almost egoless, really -- so she is always open to any input you throw at her because she really just wants to make each song the best it can be." -- LINDSEY

 

IN MY WORLD:

"What a great and heartfelt song by Lindsey this is. When you work closely somebody, you do begin to influence one another. And on `In My World," it's almost like Lindsey is leaning over just a bit to my side of writing. When I heard where this song was heading, I thought, "Crikey, this could be a hit." ­ CHRISTINE

"Christine has always been known as the hit songwriter within Fleetwood Mac, so when she hears a hook, you had better listen to her." -- LINDSEY

 

RED SUN

"I was actually on an African island when I started writing that. I was walking along the beach at sunset, and thinking about a young woman might be thinking, wishing she were with a man she loved somewhere across the world. That's where it started and it ended with Lindsey helping it make it a great song." -- CHRISTINE

"I love that song with its sense of romance and mystery. Musically, it feels like everything that Chris does and every choice she makes is inherent to the center of her being." ­ LINDSEY

 

LOVE IS HERE TO STAY

"I would say that `Love Is Here To Stay' is a love song, but a very real, grown up love song." -- LINDSEY

"I suspect Lindsey was writing about his wife, and I immediately found this song really moving. When you have huge musical gift like he does, then add in that kind of genuine sentiment, it's a powerful combination. And Lindsey sings especially beautifully on this one." -- CHRISTINE

 

TOO FAR GONE

"Lindsey brought in this kind of great, raunchy guitar track that he thought was just another riff, but I said, `Let me take that back to my room and see what I can do with it.' And when I played him, `Too Far Gone,' thankfully, Lindsey loved It." -- CHRISTINE

 

LAY DOWN FOR FREE

"Yes, that title sounds a tad provocative, but let me assure you that "Lay Down For Free" is not about prostitution, except perhaps a little in the artistic sense." ­ LINDSEY

"That's another killer song from Lindsey -- really good and rocky." ­ CHRISTINE

 

GAME OF PRETEND

"For me, `Game Of Pretend' is a rather personal song, written about someone in my life, not a boyfriend, but a good friend who really helped me figure things out when I really needed that help." -- CHRISTINE

"In some way, `Game Of Pretend' reminded me of `Songbird.' It's that magic of Chris and the piano. Originally, we cut this one with a more full band, but we needed to get down to the center of what the song was about. This song shows Christine's heart and her vulnerability. It also shows off her wonderful voice that is somehow even better now." ­ LINDSEY

 

ON WITH THE SHOW

"The last two songs on this album somehow reflect how it all began -- with Christine's return to Fleetwood Mac. `On With The Show' is a song I wrote about that reconnection just as it was just getting going." -- LINDSEY

"That song says it all about how hard it was to get the five of us back together, and yet how much it's meant and still means." -- CHRISTINE

 

CARNIVAL BEGIN

"It's a song about beginning again that feels very close to home to me now." -- CHRISTINE

"We end our album with a new beginning -- which feels just about right for us." -- LINDSEY

 


 

 

 


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