Stevie nicks the wild heart11/25/2023 There’s just no forcing magic, and there was nothing forced about this performance. Numerous commenters talk about how often they come back to the video, and all the SoundCloud version below are covers of her candid outtake, rather than her polished title track. That’s the version of the song people have latched onto. The whole thing was captured on video, and uploaded onto YouTube in 2008. But the internet changed all that.ĭuring a break from a 1981 Rolling Stone cover photo shoot, someone put on the demo track for “Wild Heart.” Stevie sang along, very free and easy, with her makeup artist Liza Jane and her backup vocalist and sister-in-law Lori Nicks joining in. (Don’t cry for Lindsey, though – he did some repurposing too, changing the song to “Can’t Go Back” from Fleetwood Mac’s Mirage album.) Stevie’s track didn’t get singled out for attention – not with “If Anyone Falls” and “Stand Back” on the same album – and it looked destined to fall through the cracks. She added new lyrics to the near-title track, and gave it new music to boot. Then Stevie took the song and repurposed it for her second album, The Wild Heart. “Wild Heart” started out as a collaboration with Lindsey Buckingham – his music, her words. We’ve discussed “Landslide,” her signature song that she brought to Fleetwood Mac now we’ll pay tribute to what she accomplished after she emerged from their shadow. Before Diana Ross, before Tina Turner, before Janis Joplin, before any other woman. She’s the first woman to be elected twice – once with Fleetwood Mac, and once for her solo career. Overall: it’s noticeable that a song written by someone else - Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - is the standout, but Bella Donna is worth buying, given the bonus CDs.Stevie Nicks’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a historic one. “There is a gate / It can be guarded / Well it is not heaven/ And it has a garden / So to the red rose / Goes the passion”. Lyrically, it’s a mixed bag with some songs that mean something, others sounding like Nicks had sniffed fairy dust off a unicorn’s head (which knowing what the Mac got up to, she may have done). The Wild Heart was her second solo album and it’s not quite as interesting, though clearly the musicianship is excellent. This re-release comes with remastered tracks, a CD of outtakes and demos and a live 1981 Los Angeles gig, which is good. The songs are the mix of rock, pop and country you’re familiar with and it’s a good album, the songs staying the right side of chilled Californian vibe / bland radio-friendly porridge divide. “When you’re touring with a band you hardly meet anyone,” Nicks says. We read one review that said Nicks “called in her old friends” but, in the sleeve notes, she says she didn’t know how to contact any of them and it was Iovine who brought them together. He drafted in people like Don Henley, Tom Petty’s guitarist Mike Campbell, the E Street Band’s Roy Bittan, and Benmont Tench, a founder of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, whose piano playing was brought in to early rehearsals - all players with character. In the excellent sleeve notes he says that he didn’t want session players, because, while talented musicians, they brought no personality to recordings. She teamed up with producer Jimmy Iovine (in more ways than one, as they started an affair on day one, according to the sleeve notes) and Iovine called in his contacts to create the sound. The album contains 10 songs composed by Nicks while on tour with Mac, and Tom Petty’s Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around, one of the stand-outs and the first single. You know the sound, so you know what these two remastered CDs contain.īella Donna was her first solo release and is the better of these two, presumably because she had a batch of songs written over the years to draw on. Stevie Nicks is the bonkers but brilliant singer with Fleetwood Mac, whose ethereal, scratchy voice is famous.
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