Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks (1973)

I just posted an album of demos by soon-to-be Fleetwood Mac stars Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, recorded in 1973. That same year, they released their only album as a duo, simply called "Buckingham Nicks."

I'm posting that album here, even though I haven't changed the album in any way, because the album has been out of print since mere months after it was released in 1973. The record company only printed up a limited run, believed to be about 35,000, and never promoted it in any way, so it was a rarity pretty much since the time it came out.

Since then, the album has been tied up in legal limbo, with disputes over who exactly has the legal rights to release it. Also, it's gotten caught up in personal disputes, with Nicks apparently in favor of releasing it and Buckingham against. Given that Buckingham was fired from Fleetwood Mac in 2018, it seems highly unlikely to me that people will get together enough to officially release this anytime soon.

If you like the "Rumours" era Fleetwood Mac, you really should check it out. It's a very good album. The song "Crystal" would be redone on the 1975 Fleetwood Mac album (just called "Fleetwood Mac), and "Don't Let Me Down Again" would be done in a live version on the 1980 Fleetwood Mac album "Live." But many of the other songs were strong enough to have been included on later Fleetwood Mac albums. Interestingly, it was the song "Frozen Love" that was a local hit in Alabama and caught the interest of Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood and led to him wanting to get the duo to join his band.

01 Crying in the Night (Buckingham Nicks)
02 Stephanie [Instrumental] (Buckingham Nicks)
03 Without a Leg to Stand On (Buckingham Nicks)
04 Crystal (Buckingham Nicks)
05 Long Distance Winner (Buckingham Nicks)
06 Don't Let Me Down Again (Buckingham Nicks)
07 Django [Instrumental] (Buckingham Nicks)
08 Races Are Run (Buckingham Nicks)
09 Lola [My Love] (Buckingham Nicks)
10 Frozen Love (Buckingham Nicks)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15291408/FleetwodMc_1973c_BuckinghmNcksBuckinghmNcks_atse.zip.html

I've used something very close to the official album cover. But that one uses a black and white photo, and I really hate black and white. I've colorized a lot of album covers myself, but in this case I found that someone else named Sam Taylor colorized it and posted that version on the Internet, so I've used that. There are also some very slight differences here and there due to having to add in the text and other bits from scratch.