Music Review: Buckingham Nicks is a poignant blueprint for the classic

New York (AP) -There are two ways to review ‘Buckingham Nicks’, the long-awaited digital reissue of the 1973 album of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, their only recording project as duo. Imagine that you had never heard of them, that it was an obscure behavior in the 1970s that made one album, broke up and left the business. You may think of ‘Buckingham Nicks’ as a kind of curiosity, a taste of the Vintage Los Angeles singer-songwriter doll, with his folk style work, well-made melodies and serious feelings (‘ Do you always trust your first, initial feeling? The scale is modest and nothing will probably hit you as a lost classic, but you will probably take at least a handful of the ten songs – the drumming riffies on ‘crying in the night’ and ‘Stephanie’, the gripping refrain of ‘races are run’, The way Buckingham’s sensitive Tenor is filled by Nicks’ Husky Vibrato. You may be wondering what happened to the two hippie artists, who look out of the album cover naked, long-haired and uninhibition, as if the photographer had moved in without warning. But if you are in the big universe of Buckingham-Nicks Obsessives, encyclopedies about their exposition and reunions and musical sparring matches, you (or rediscover) will find a lot of clues and portents in Friday’s release. The competent acoustic pick that opens the instrumental “Stephanie” will remind you of Buckingham’s work on Fleetwood Mac’s “Never Going Back again.” The opening galop and a heavy bark of ‘Don’t Let Me Down again’ look forward to “second -hand news” and the slow build -up of “Lola My Lola” feels like a test run for “The Chain.” Buckingham and Nicks were in the middle of the 20s during the production of the album, and if they ever enjoyed a phase of easy, blissful love, they seemed to be over. ‘Crystal’, the only song that also appears on the breakthrough “Fleetwood Mac” album of 1975, is a rare expression of dedication or gratitude. Other tracks look closer to the hard lessons of Nicks’ future map topper, ‘dreams’. There is a good refrain of ‘long -distance winner’ – ‘yes, you are the winner/long -distance winner’, reflect on ‘Races are run’ and the reminder: ‘Racing is running, some people win/some people should always lose.’ Buckingham’s ‘Don’t Let Me Down Again’, in which the singer fears the departure of his lover, feels like a prequel for breaking ‘go your own way’. The reissue adds clarity to the sound of “Buckingham Nicks” that you do not get from the confusing, unauthorized downloads that appear online. And the album has a solid cast of sessional musicians, including Elvis Presley veterans Ronnie Tutt on drums and Jerry Scheff on Bass and La match Waddy Wachtel on guitar. But the arrangements anchor or strengthen the songs such as drummer Mick Fleetwood and bass guitarist John McVie, after Fleetwood’s fatal invitation to join Buckingham to join his orchestra, and Buckingham’s fatal insistence that his girlfriend come along. Give ‘Fleetwood Mac’ a listen if you haven’t lately, and the difference will grab you from the opening lane, Buckingham’s ‘Monday morning’ – an immediate jump in a future that Buckingham and Nicks just started thinking. ___ “Buckingham Nicks” by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks three stars out of five. With repetition: “Races are run” it over: “Django” for fans of: You know who you are.