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Stevie Nicks Blu Ray
Another twist in the saga of Stevie's "Live" Soundstage DVD
It hasn't technically been released commercially except through PBS - but Sears is now apparently selling Blu-Ray editions of the discs for $24.99. The discs began showing up on eBay over the week much to the surprise of everyone and many at first doubted it's authenticity, but it's been confirmed that yes, it's now available in the Blu-Ray format, but only at Sears (of all places). The cover and track listing are the exact same as what PBS was initially selling after the airing of the show in July, 2008 and there's no booklet inside.... It's been confirmed through various purchases that it is in fact - a Blu-Ray edition - so if you can't wait for the commercial release in March (I'm assuming it will now also be released in the Blu-Ray format in March along with the standard DVD format) then head on over to your local sears, or order it on-line.
TRACK LISTING:
STAND BACK 5:10
ENCHANTED 3:09
IF ANYONE FALLS 4:11
RHIANNON 8:05
CRASH INTO ME 5:37
SORCERER 5:07
THE ONE 3:55
GOLD DUST WOMAN 10:04
I NEED TO KNOW 2:25
CIRCLE DANCE 4:24
LANDSLIDE 4:12
SARA 7:15
FALL FROM GRACE 4:34
HOW STILL MY LOVE 8:27
EDGE OF SEVENTEEN 12:53
ROCK AND ROLL 4:16
Also... Sears has a "Best Of Soundstage" Blu-Ray disc that features one track from Stevie's show - "Gold Dust Woman" and also Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain". Incidentally, I don't recall Fleetwood Mac's Soundstage DVD being released in the Blu-Ray format... so this one track is a first - $24.99.
A compilation of outstanding live performances by todays premiere artists presented in pristine high definition.
Tracklist:
FOREIGNER: FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME 5:10
STEVIE NICKS: GOLD DUST WOMAN 9:58
STEVE WINWOOD: DEAR MR FANTASY 8:38
SHERYL CROW: EVERY DAY IS A WINDING ROAD 5:57
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS: REFUGEE 5:01
HEART: MAGIC MAN 5:25
GEORGE JONES: HE STOPPED LOVING HER TODAY 3:27
TRACE ADKINS: CHROME 3:10
REO SPEEDWAGON: TAKE IT ON THE RUN 4:04
CHRIS ISAAK: WICKED GAMES 4:39
IDINA MENZEL: DEFYING GRAVITY 3:56
IDINA MENZEL AND JOSH GROBAN: AWAKE 5:02
JEWEL: FOOLISH GAMES 4:25
JEWEL: HANDS 4:06
RINGO STARR AND THE ROUNDHEADS: PHOTOGRAPH 3:48
FLEETWOOD MAC: THE CHAIN 5:06
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
January sees new CD from Stevie Nicks
Bloomberg Arts and Cultural Reviewer Mark Beech has a stack of Advance Releases to go through over the holidays... One of them is a cd by Stevie Nicks. Could this be the Live Chicago Soundstage cd that's been bounced around as far as release dates goes and is expected in March, 2009? Or is this now back on the January release schedule? Or am I miss-reading this?signed confused.....
**UPDATE**
RAL250 (see comments) contacted Mark Beech who double checked with Stevie's Record Company (Warner Bros.) and the record company confimed with him that the release date is in fact March, 2009.
Thanks RAL250!
BloombergI’ll spend Christmas listening to Santogold’s “Santogold” (Downtown) -- a strange brew of synths and soul -- and “Welcome to Mali” (Because Music) by Amadou & Mariam, a world-music gem. There’s also a stack of advance releases. January sees new CDs from Stevie Nicks, Antony & the Johnsons, Kylie Minogue, Franz Ferdinand and Bruce Springsteen. Next year may be even better.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Stevie Nicks Talks Fleetwood Mac + Sheryl Crow Drama!!!!!!
December 12, 2008
Last night we had the extreme pleasure of chatting with Stevie Nicks, who in January will release a DVD titled Live In Chicago, featuring takes of many of her greatest hits with Fleetwood Mac and her stellar solo career. It's truly awesome.
In conjunction, Nicks is releasing a companion CD titled The Soundstage Sessions, offering live renditions of her lesser-performed cuts like "Beauty and the Beast," "Fall from Grace," and her covers of Dave Matthews Band's "Crash" and Bonnie Raitt's "Circle Dance."
As one of our greatest singers ever -- and a rock star of the highest order -- Stevie couldn't have been sweeter, funnier or more down to earth.
We talked about her recent 60th birthday (she took her mom and her friends to see a production of the play Wicked, of course), the upcoming Fleetwood Mac tour (she can't wait), as well as the drama surrounding Sheryl Crow's involvement in the Mac.
As you may remember, last March Crow announced that she would be joining Mac, saying, "We definitely have plans for collaborating in the future, and we'll see what happens. I think that's going to be next year."
Although it appears to fly in the face of what Lindsey Buckingham told us, Stevie told us that Crow was, in fact, invited to go on the Mac's first trek in nearly five years. (Look for the rest of the interview in the next issue of Rolling Stone.)
Heres what Stevie had to say:
"What happened is that it was absolutely discussed and [Sheryl] absolutely was invited to join the band. The reason was I wanted another woman in the band, because I missed Christine so bad that it was just really hard for me to be in the boys club. What happened was, really... everybody thinks it was just because Sheryl got really excited and told the world about it a little bit too early. That wasn't what it was. I started explaining to Sheryl what it was going to be like to be in this band. It's all-encompassing, and for somebody with a new baby...for a woman in her forties with a new baby, and as loving and as nurturing as Sheryl Crow is... if you know her, you know that she just is a caretaker. We had a conversation at the beginning of this year. I said, 'I rented a studio,' and it was around Mother's Day. 'You need to come in and we need to play music for two days, because we should. It's not an audition for us, it's not an audition for you, it's just us to play music. We'll set it all up and we'll be on a stage and have great monitors, and all your pianos and everything will be set up. We're just going to rock for two days, go out to dinner and hang out. We need to do that.'
She had all these really important plans, because it was her first Mother’s Day, and she was also on the road, so she had to escape out of that for three days. I said, 'You have to do it, you have to come.' That was on a Thursday. She said to me, 'Are you trying to talk me out of this by telling me how difficult this is going to be for me?' I said, 'I'm not. I'm just being truthful with you. Imagine this, when we went on the Say You Will tour, we thought it was forty shows. It was 135 shows. Nobody knew that, but that’s what it was. And that was for an unhappy tour.'
'So it is kind of like joining the army. Personally, it's going to be very hard for you. I'm not trying to talk you out of it, I'm just trying to let you know what it is.' So she said, 'Okay, I'm going to think about it,' and she called us back two days later. We were in the car, on speaker, and she said, 'I think I'm going to have to pass.'
I said, 'Honey, as Stevie, your friend,' who spent three solid years with her working on Trouble in Shangri-La in ’98, ’99, and 2000, I said, 'I think you're making the right decision. As Stevie Nicks, I'm disappointed. But as your friend, I think this is the right decision.'
Sheryl Crow passed on Fleetwood Mac, and I want that out there, because people seem to be getting different stories about this. That’s what happened."
There you have it!!!
In conjunction, Nicks is releasing a companion CD titled The Soundstage Sessions, offering live renditions of her lesser-performed cuts like "Beauty and the Beast," "Fall from Grace," and her covers of Dave Matthews Band's "Crash" and Bonnie Raitt's "Circle Dance."
As one of our greatest singers ever -- and a rock star of the highest order -- Stevie couldn't have been sweeter, funnier or more down to earth.
We talked about her recent 60th birthday (she took her mom and her friends to see a production of the play Wicked, of course), the upcoming Fleetwood Mac tour (she can't wait), as well as the drama surrounding Sheryl Crow's involvement in the Mac.
As you may remember, last March Crow announced that she would be joining Mac, saying, "We definitely have plans for collaborating in the future, and we'll see what happens. I think that's going to be next year."
Although it appears to fly in the face of what Lindsey Buckingham told us, Stevie told us that Crow was, in fact, invited to go on the Mac's first trek in nearly five years. (Look for the rest of the interview in the next issue of Rolling Stone.)
Heres what Stevie had to say:
"What happened is that it was absolutely discussed and [Sheryl] absolutely was invited to join the band. The reason was I wanted another woman in the band, because I missed Christine so bad that it was just really hard for me to be in the boys club. What happened was, really... everybody thinks it was just because Sheryl got really excited and told the world about it a little bit too early. That wasn't what it was. I started explaining to Sheryl what it was going to be like to be in this band. It's all-encompassing, and for somebody with a new baby...for a woman in her forties with a new baby, and as loving and as nurturing as Sheryl Crow is... if you know her, you know that she just is a caretaker. We had a conversation at the beginning of this year. I said, 'I rented a studio,' and it was around Mother's Day. 'You need to come in and we need to play music for two days, because we should. It's not an audition for us, it's not an audition for you, it's just us to play music. We'll set it all up and we'll be on a stage and have great monitors, and all your pianos and everything will be set up. We're just going to rock for two days, go out to dinner and hang out. We need to do that.'
She had all these really important plans, because it was her first Mother’s Day, and she was also on the road, so she had to escape out of that for three days. I said, 'You have to do it, you have to come.' That was on a Thursday. She said to me, 'Are you trying to talk me out of this by telling me how difficult this is going to be for me?' I said, 'I'm not. I'm just being truthful with you. Imagine this, when we went on the Say You Will tour, we thought it was forty shows. It was 135 shows. Nobody knew that, but that’s what it was. And that was for an unhappy tour.'
'So it is kind of like joining the army. Personally, it's going to be very hard for you. I'm not trying to talk you out of it, I'm just trying to let you know what it is.' So she said, 'Okay, I'm going to think about it,' and she called us back two days later. We were in the car, on speaker, and she said, 'I think I'm going to have to pass.'
I said, 'Honey, as Stevie, your friend,' who spent three solid years with her working on Trouble in Shangri-La in ’98, ’99, and 2000, I said, 'I think you're making the right decision. As Stevie Nicks, I'm disappointed. But as your friend, I think this is the right decision.'
Sheryl Crow passed on Fleetwood Mac, and I want that out there, because people seem to be getting different stories about this. That’s what happened."
There you have it!!!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
30 Songs To Whittle Down
Additional interview footage of Lindsey and Stevie appeared on Entertainment Tonight, tonight. It was brief... Stevie mentioned that they had 30 songs they were looking at as possible set-list contenders...
Access Hollywood will have bits of the same interview on tonight... Apparently this part of the interview focuses on the Buckingham Nicks Album Cover... Stevie proclaims "I'm not a stripper!"
Access Hollywood will have bits of the same interview on tonight... Apparently this part of the interview focuses on the Buckingham Nicks Album Cover... Stevie proclaims "I'm not a stripper!"
Fleetwood Mac - 45 Shows So Far....
Fleetwood Mac Stars Reveal Reunion Details
Entertainment Tonight
(click link for video or to the right in the Video Wall)
ET riffs with Fleetwood Mac stars Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, who give us the 411 on the Mac's highly anticipated "Unleashed" reunion tour.
One unique aspect about the tour is that the group is not releasing a new album but instead performing songs that they enjoy singing.
"We are not supporting a new album," Lindsey says. "We thought it would be very appropriate to go in and really just look at the body of work that we have and put together something that we would enjoy playing. And not put ourselves in the pressure of trying to redefine ourselves with new material."
It's been five years since the legendary supergroup last rocked out on the road, and their 2009 "Unleashed" tour coincides with the reissue of their signature 1977 album, Rumours -- one of the best-selling albums of all time,
featuring hits such as "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way" and "You Make Loving Fun."
Stevie tells ET that the theme of the tour is to bring back the songs Fleetwood Mac fans know and love.
"This is our life," she says. "These are our beautiful songs that we worked so hard on, that you love. And for this one time, we're going to play all this for you."
(click link for video or to the right in the Video Wall)
ET riffs with Fleetwood Mac stars Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, who give us the 411 on the Mac's highly anticipated "Unleashed" reunion tour.
One unique aspect about the tour is that the group is not releasing a new album but instead performing songs that they enjoy singing.
"We are not supporting a new album," Lindsey says. "We thought it would be very appropriate to go in and really just look at the body of work that we have and put together something that we would enjoy playing. And not put ourselves in the pressure of trying to redefine ourselves with new material."
It's been five years since the legendary supergroup last rocked out on the road, and their 2009 "Unleashed" tour coincides with the reissue of their signature 1977 album, Rumours -- one of the best-selling albums of all time,
featuring hits such as "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way" and "You Make Loving Fun."Stevie tells ET that the theme of the tour is to bring back the songs Fleetwood Mac fans know and love.
"This is our life," she says. "These are our beautiful songs that we worked so hard on, that you love. And for this one time, we're going to play all this for you."
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