CMT’s Crossroads program will bring together classic rock and contemporary country when Stevie Nicks joins Lady Antebellum in an upcoming episode, the country music channel announced yesterday. Nicks and her band Fleetwood Mac are preparing to embark on their first world tour since 2009, and are working up new songs for the shows. Meanwhile Lady [...]

Lindsey Buckingham’s solo tour wraps up at end of this month. One week before it winds to a close, though, the Fleetwood Mac co-founder will release Lindsey Buckingham: One Man Show, a live album that captures his recent performance in Des Moines. It’s a raw, unvarnished record, and it’ll only be available via iTunes for [...]

On Black Prairie’s first album, the musicians hardly sang at all, letting their instruments do most of the talking. A Tear In The Eye Is A Wound In The Heart takes things in a different direction, mixing the band’s bluegrass tunes with a handful of vocally-driven folk songs. Fiddle player Annalisa Tornfelt pulls double duty [...]

  Music supervisor Randall Poster (Moonlight Kingdom, The Royal Tenenbaums) was one of guys behind last year’s Rave On, a Grammy-nominated tribute to Buddy Holly. This year, he shifts his focus to Fleetwood Mac. Just Tell Me That You Want Me casts a wide net, with everyone from Marianne Faithfull to Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy taking [...]

Lindsey Buckingham’s summer tour has already been recognized by American Songwriter, but is something worth revisiting because of the musician’s July 27 sold-out performance on Franklin Theatre’s stage. The 75-year-old movie theater in downtown Franklin, Tenn (just outside Nashville), came back with live music in 2011 when its doors reopened after a four-year dormant period. [...]

May/June “On My Deathbed” winner Ashley McClosky reveals her prize picks. From Fleetwood Mac to Elvis Perkins, read Ashley’s blog on each pick that helped her win a Martin D-28 guitar.  Enter the current “On My Deathbed” Contest for your chance to win a Martin OO-DB Jeff Tweedy guitar!   Love Is Hell – Ryan Adams I feel like this album [...]

Randall Poster, the producer behind last year’s Buddy Holly tribute album Rave On, is back with another impressive cast of artists ranging from MGMT, Best Coast, The New Pornographers, Entrance Band, The Kills and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. His next target: Fleetwood Mac. The untitled album is set to be released on August 14 [...]

Born into a family of esteemed songwriters, Billy Burnette – whose father and uncle were two thirds of influential ‘50s rockabilly group The Rock and Roll Trio – has written songs for everyone from Roy Orbison and Tammy Wynette to Alan Jackson and Faith Hill. After years touring alongside Bob Dylan and John Fogerty, the [...]

Various Artists The Best of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum Live (Time/Life) Rating: Three songs into The Best of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum Live, the soul comes out, via one Rev. Al Green. He gives the performance of his life on “A Change is Gonna Come,” [...]

Lindsey Buckingham: Seeds We Sow (Eagle Rock Entertainment) Rating: In a year when longtime Fleetwood Mac mystic (and his former flame) Stevie Nicks released some of her worst songs to date (the underwhelming In Your Dreams), there’s something especially comforting about the ornate fingerpicking that opens Seeds We Sow, Lindsey Buckingham’s sixth solo album. “Had [...]

photo by Kristin Burns This is an extended version of the interview that appears in the September/October 2011 issue. When Stevie Nicks started her musical and romantic relationship with Lindsey Buckingham, both were still in high school. By the time the romance ended, the folk-pop duo were in one of the world’s hottest bands, which [...]