I really did not believe that that was ever going to happen again.
I was in Phoenix and I worked for about six months, and then the Fleetwood Mac thing - the rumor that we were going to get back together - started to happen, and, of course, I didn't believe it. Then I started to work on the whole record. And then a year later, in '95, I wrote the song "Trouble in Shangri-La," so I had the beginning and the end. I went out on tour that summer, and then I came back and wrote the song "Love Is," the last song on Trouble in Shangri-La. But it had to go out I had to do interviews, and that was depressing. Stevie Nicks: Well, in 1993 I put out Street Angel, a terrible record because it was made during the eight years when I was taking Klonopin and Prozac, and it just sucked all my creativity out, and I just wasn't well enough to make a record.
Nicks spoke with Barnes & 's Bill Crandall and gave him the full - and we do mean full - story behind Trouble in Shangri-La, and the scoop on Fleetwood Mac's future plans, too.īarnes & : What took you so long? Taken together, they comprise one of her strongest albums yet - a crystallization of one of the most sultry and alluring voices in pop music.
The final result contains some of the songs that she couldn't get onto Fleetwood Mac albums, some of her friends' songs, and songs born out of the most miserable years of her life in the late '80s and early '90s.
Trouble in Shangri-La, Nicks's sixth solo affair and her first release after a seven-year hiatus, features an all-star cast - Macy Gray, Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, Buckingham, most of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, and, especially, Nicks's buddy Sheryl Crow, who co-produced five tracks on the album. But those songs - "Rhiannon," "Landslide," "Crystal," "Dreams," "I Don't Want to Know," and "Gold Dust Woman" - could have powered a greatest-hits album for the entire band. When she and high school sweetheart Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in the mid-'70s and revitalized the former British blues outfit with an infusion of California rock, she contributed a mere six songs to the revamped band's smash albums, 1975's self-titled release and 1977's Rumours. Nicks has written far more songs than her albums could accommodate. In other words, she speaks like she writes songs, which have always come straight from her heart and her life. Stevie Nicks talks fast and frankly, and leaves out very few details.