They mixed brisk Spencer songs and languid Green originals with blues classics by artists such as Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf and Robert Johnson. Both Green and Spencer immediately conjured up pure blues magic of their own from their slide guitars and passionate vocals. A long, successful journey had begun.Īlthough the original goal of Fleetwood Mac was to worship exclusively at the altar of their blues gods, the first three songs were originals. Singles and LPs were still different beasts in the 1960s so the band and producer chose a totally different set of songs for the debut LP, released in the UK in February 1968.

After a few months with a temporary bassist, four dedicated blues fans joined forcesPeter Green (guitar), Jeremy Spencer (guitar), Mick Fleetwood (drums) and John McVie (bass.) Christened 'Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac,' they spent a few weeks recording their debut album (compare that to the agonizingly long gestation period of over a year for the Rumours LP of the mid-1970s.) A 45 single was released in the fall of 1967 with modest success. Here is a look at the discs and the tribute concert.īlue Horizon Records / Fat Possum Recordsįor those passionate fans who believed Fleetwood Mac began when Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined in the mid-1970s, let's rewind the clock to 1967. Peter Green may be gone but his star has risen once again. He quietly slipped away when no one was watching. To add an unpredictable plot twist, Green passed in his sleep in the summer of 2020 at the age of 73. As those LPs were rereleased, the film of the 2020 All Star Tribute concert debuted on screens in February 2021 and the concert album arrived in April. First up for the 2021 Blue Horizon reissues was the band's first three albums, all fronted by Green. There is a treasure trove of archived blues albums by artists including Elmore James, B.B. At the same time, 2020 was also when Blue Horizon Records, the British blues label founded by Mike and Richard Vernon in the 1960s, was preparing to launch a series of reissues. The event may never have happened if it had been delayed by a few weeks. Although Mick Fleetwood had talked about a tribute concert to honor friend and British blues slide guitar giant Peter Green for years, Fleetwood was tenacious and succeeded in bringing together an all-star roster of close to 20 musicians on February 25, 2020, days before the world began to shut down and people were forced to sequester.

There are times when the stars align in a dramatic and symbiotic way.

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Peter green's fleetwood mac