There are many versions of this, one of Stevie Nicks’s darkest and most inscrutable songs. This is the first demo, from the “coffee plant demos,” and it features Lindsey Buckingham’s banjo, bass, electric guitar, and backup vocals; the way the two of them yell the song’s title at the fade comes close to rocking out, despite the drum machine. Stevie recorded harder rocking versions in 1983 (an outtake from The Wild Heart) and 2001 (on Trouble in Shangri-La), but she sings them with little of the emotion and wonder that characterizes the Buckingham Nicks vocal. Best of all, though, are the live versions from Alabama in January 1975 with the Buckingham Nicks band, which are preceded by Lindsey’s electrified version of the Modern Jazz Quartet’s “Django,” and end with the kind of rave-up we wouldn’t see again until the live Fleetwood Mac versions of “Rhiannon.”
24 сен 2024
