We now know for sure why those mysterious lyric snippets Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham posted on their social media pages and what the Buckingham Nicks billboard that appeared in Los Angeles recently were teasing.
The famed singer/songwriters have confirmed that the long-unavailable duo album they released as a duo in September 1973, Buckingham Nicks, will be reissued for the first time on September 19. The album originally arrived about a year or so before Nicks and Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac.
Buckingham Nicks can be pre-ordered now, and will be available on vinyl, CD, and via digital formats. Several different vinyl versions of the album will be released. These include a Rhino High Fidelity edition cut from the original master recordings and pressed on 180-gram vinyl.
The album also will be issued on several colored-vinyl variants that will be sold exclusively by Amazon (custard), Books A Million (violet), and independent record shops (baby pink). A baby-blue colored LP will be available at general retail stores.
The Rhino High Fidelity vinyl version of Buckingham Nicks will be sold exclusively at Rhino.com and internationally at select Warner Music Group outlets. Only 5,000 copies of this edition of the LP, each individually numbered, will be produced. In addition, a special version of the LP packaged with two replica 7-inch vinyl singles will be available, limited to 2,000 copies. The 7-inch discs will feature the original single mixes of “Crying in the Night” backed with “Stephanie” and “Don’t Let Me Down Again” backed with “Races Are Run.”
A remastered version of Buckingham Nicks’ lead track, “Crying in the Night,” has been released as an advance digital single. The song was written and sung by Nicks.
More About the Buckingham Nicks Album
Nicks met Buckingham in high school in 1966, when she was a senior and he was a junior. When they recorded the Buckingham Nicks album, they were romantically involved and were both members of a band called Fritz.
The duo recorded Buckingham Nicks at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles with producer Keith Olsen. A number of respected session musicians contributed to the album, including guitarist Waddy Wachtel, bassist Jerry Scheff, and drummers Jim Keltner and Ron Tutt. The 10-track collection featured nine original songs and a cover of the jazz instrumental “Django,” written by John Lewis.
Buckingham Nicks was released on September 5, 1973, but received no commercial attention.
Fast forward to late 1974. Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood was played the Buckingham Nicks tune “Frozen Love” when he visited Sound City while scouting studios for his band’s next album, and he was impressed by what he heard. Shortly after that, guitarist Bob Welch left Fleetwood Mac, and Mick reached out to Lindsey and invited him to join the band. Buckingham told Fleetwood he’d only agree to join the group as a package deal with Nicks. The rest, as they say, is history.
In the new liner notes for the album, Nicks reflected on the music she and Buckingham created as a duo.
“[We] knew what we had as a duo, two songwriters that sang really well together,” she recalled. “And it was a very natural thing, from the beginning.”
Lindsey added about their album, “[I]t stands up in a way you hope it would, by these two kids who were pretty young to be doing that work.”
More About How Nicks and Buckingham Teased the Reissue
On July 18, Nicks and Buckingham both posted separate lyric snippets from their 1973 song “Frozen Love” on their social media pages. The posts prompted fans to speculate about a possible reunion between the duo, as well as a Buckingham Nicks reissue.
A few days later, a billboard featuring the photo from the Buckingham Nicks cover, Stevie’s and Lindsey’s names, and the date September 19 appeared on Sunset Boulevard in L.A.
No word about a possible reunion between Nicks and Buckingham has been announced. Buckingham was fired from Fleetwood Mac in early 2018 after Nicks insisted that she could no longer work with her former beau. Since then, Stevie has not seemed open to working with Lindsey again.
Buckingham Nicks Track List:
- “Crying in the Night”
- “Stephanie”
- “Without a Leg to Stand On”
- “Crystal”
- “Long Distance Winner”
- “Don’t Let Me Down Again”
- “Django”
- “Races Are Run”
- “Lola (My Love)”
- “Frozen Love”
