Fleetwood Mac - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: 1969

First off, sadly, I have to report that Peter Green died a few days ago, on July 25, 2020, of natural causes. He was 73 years old. He was a true musical giant in my opinion, one of the greatest lead guitar players of all time. He will be missed, even though most of his musical reputation rests on his years with Fleetwood Mac, from 1967 to 1970.

Only four of the 12 songs on it are officially released. Three more are from "On Air," but that's a dubious "grey market" release. However, I think you'll find there's very little sound quality difference between the released ones and the rest. 

 

The three "On Air" sourced songs are by Chicken Shack, the blues band Christine McVie was in shortly before she joined Fleetwood Mac. I've only included songs from this band where McVie was the lead vocalist.  

 

All of the BBC performances come from just three sessions, and probably the released and unreleased versions ultimately come from the same recorded versions.

There are four songs not from the BBC. Two of these ("San-Ho-Zay" and the "Blue Suede Shoes" medley) come from a Dutch radio show. I'm not a stickler that all songs on a BBC compilation have to actually come from the BBC - I figure other radio or TV show appearances are fair game as well. 

There's nothing wrong sonically with the bonus track, "Albatross." The only reason it's a bonus track is because I have another version of the band playing the song on an earlier album in this BBC series. There are remarkably few instances of the band playing the same song twice on the BBC, so any duplicates are downgraded to bonus tracks.

This album is 40 minutes long, not including the bonus track.

 

UPDATE: On September 26, 2025, I redid the mp3 download file. I'm not sure why, but I had a couple of songs out of chronological order between this album and Volume 4. So I moved some songs from here to there, and from there to here.  

 

01 San-Ho-Zay [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Blue Suede Shoes - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Blue Suede Shoes (Fleetwood Mac)
03 Can't Believe You Wanna Leave (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Blues with a Feeling (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Tallahassee Lassie (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Early Morning Come (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Heavenly (Fleetwood Mac)
08 I'd Rather Go Blind (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
09 Hey Baby (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
10 Get like You Used to Be [Edit] (Christine McVie & Chicken Shack)
11 Man of the World (Fleetwood Mac)
12 Jumping at Shadows (Fleetwood Mac)
13 Linda [Edit] (Fleetwood Mac)

Albatross [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)

 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/N1MxEjZV

 

alternate:  

 

https://bestfile.io/en/mW0PYTajKJFlKOo/file

I'm not sure exactly when or where the cover art photo is from. But given their appearance, and especially the inclusion of Danny Kirwan (who joined in 1968), I think it's likely it's from 1969.

 

In 2025, I improved the detail of the image with the use of the Krea AI program.