56 Songs Covered By Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

On Regular Albums

Fleetwood Mac (1967-1970) John McVie (Bass),Danny Kirwan (Guitar,Vocals)

Peter Green (Lead Guitar, Vocals), Jeremy Spencer, (Lead(slide) Guitar,Vocals)

 

Baby Please Set A Date

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

Live At The BBC Vol. 2

1969

Black Jack Blues

Nature Boy Brown

Fleetwood Mac

Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 2

1969

Blues With A Feeling

Little Walter

Fleetwood Mac

Live At The BBC Vol. 2

1969

Bobby's Rock

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 1

1969

Buddy's Song

Bobby Vee

Fleetwood Mac

Live At The BBC Vol. 1

1969

Can't Afford To Do It

Homesick james

Fleetwood Mac

The Original Fleetwood

1971

Can't Believe You Wanna Leave

Little Richard

Fleetwood Mac

Live At The BBC Vol. 1

1969

Coming Home

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

Mr. Wonderful

1968

Death Bells

Lightnin' Hopkins

Fleetwood Mac

The Vaudeville Years Of Fleetwood Mac 1

1970

Doctor Brown

Buster (J.T.) Brown

Fleetwood Mac

Mr. Wonderful

1968

Dust My Broom

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

Mr. Wonderful

1968

Everyday I Have The Blues

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

The Vaudeville Years Of Fleetwood Mac 1

1970

 

Got To Move

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac

1968

Great Balls Of Fire

Jerry Lee Lewis

Fleetwood Mac

Live In Boston, Vol. 3

1969

Hang On To A Dream

Tim Hardin

Fleetwood Mac

Live At The BBC Vol. 2

1969

Have A Good Time

Big Walter Horton

Fleetwood Mac

Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 2

1969

Hellhound On My Trail

Robert Johnson

Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac

1968

Homework

Otis Rush

Fleetwood Mac

Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 2

1969

Honey Hush

Turner

Fleetwood Mac

Live At The BBC Vol. 1

1969

I Can't Hold Out (Talk To Me Baby)

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

The Vaudeville Years

1969

I Held My Baby Last Night

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

Mr. Wonderful

1968

I'd Rather Go Blind

Etta James

Christine Perfect +

Chicken Shack (FM)

The Best Of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

2002

I'm Worried

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 1

1969

Jenny, Jenny

Little Richard

Fleetwood Mac

Live In Boston, Vol. 2

1970

Jumping At Shadows

Duster Bennett

Fleetwood Mac

Live In Boston, Vol. 1

1970

Keep A Knockin'

Little Richard

Fleetwood Mac

Live In Boston, Vol. 2

1970

Last Night

Little Walter

Fleetwood Mac

Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 1

1969

Love That Woman

Otish Rush

Fleetwood Mac

The Original Fleetwood

1971

Madison Blues

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 1

1969

Mean Mistreating Mama

Carr

Fleetwood Mac

Live At The BBC Vol. 2

1969

Mean Old Fireman

Crudup

Fleetwood Mac

The Original Fleetwood

1971

Mighty Cold

Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman

Fleetwood Mac

The Vaudeville Years Of Fleetwood Mac 2

1970

My Baby's Gone

David Honeyboy Edwards

Fleetwood Mac

Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 2

1969

My Baby's Sweeter

Little Walter

Fleetwood Mac

The Vaudeville Years Of Fleetwood Mac 1

1970

Need Your Love So Bad

Little Willie John

Fleetwood Mac

The Pious Bird Of Good Omen

1969

No Place To Go

Howlin' Wolf

Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac

1968

Oh Baby

Little Walter

Fleetwood Mac

Live In Boston, Vol. 3

1970

Red Hot Mama

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

Live In Boston, Vol. 2

1970

Rock Me Baby (Rockin'& Rollin')

Lil' Son Jackson

Fleetwood Mac

Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 2

1969

Shake Your Moneymaker

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac

1968

Someday Soon Baby

Otis Spann

Fleetwood Mac

Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 2

1969

South Indiana-1

Walter Horton

Fleetwood Mac

Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 1

1969

Stranger Blues

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

Live In Boston, Vol. 2

1970

Sugar Mama

Sonny Boy Williamson

Fleetwood Mac

Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 2

1969

Sweet Home Chicago

Robert Johnson

Fleetwood Mac

Live At The BBC Vol. 2

1969

Tallahassee Lassie

Freddy Cannon

Fleetwood Mac

Live At The BBC Vol. 2

1969

That's Wrong

Walter Horton

Fleetwood Mac

Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 2

1969

The Big Boat (w. Eddy Boyd)

Eddy Boyd

Fleetwood Mac

The Best Of Fleetwood Mac

1969

The Sun Is Shining

Elmore James

Fleetwood Mac

The Pious Bird Of Good Omen

1969

Tutti Frutti

Little Richard

Fleetwood Mac

Live In Boston, Vol. 3

1970

When Will I Be Loved

Everly

Fleetwood Mac

Live At The BBC Vol. 1

1969

World's In A Tangle

Jimmy Rogers

Fleetwood Mac

The Essential Fleetwood Mac, Vol. 1

2006

Worried Dream

King

Fleetwood Mac

The Original Fleetwood

1971

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History of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (1967-1970)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fleetwood Mac are a British and American rock band formed in 1967 in London.

The only original member present in the band is its eponymous drummer, Mick Fleetwood. Despite band founder Peter Green naming the group by combining the surnames of two of his former bandmates (Fleetwood, McVie) from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, bassist John McVie played neither on their first single nor at their first concerts. The keyboardist, Christine McVie, has, to date, appeared on all but two albums, either as a member or as a session musician. She also supplied the artwork for the album Kiln House.

The two most successful periods for the band were during the late 1960s British blues boom, when they were led by guitarist Peter Green and achieved a UK number one with "Albatross"; and from 1975 to 1987, with more pop-orientation, featuring Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four U.S. Top 10 singles (including Nicks' song "Dreams", which was the band's first and only U.S. number one) and remained at No.1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world. To date the album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the ninth highest selling album of all time.

The band enjoyed more modest success in the intervening period between 1971 and 1974, with the line-up including Bob Welch, and also during the 1990s which saw more personnel changes before the return of Nicks and Buckingham in 1997, and more recently, the departure of Christine McVie.

History

Formation and early years (1967-1970)

Fleetwood Mac were formed in 1967 in London when Peter Green left the British blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Green had replaced guitarist Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers, and received critical acclaim for his work on their album A Hard Road. After he had been in the Bluesbreakers for some time, Green asked if drummer Mick Fleetwood could replace Aynsley Dunbar. Green had been in two bands with Fleetwood�"Peter B's Looners" and the subsequent "Shotgun Express" (which featured a young vocalist named Rod Stewart). John Mayall agreed and Fleetwood became a member of the band.

The Bluesbreakers now consisted of Green, Fleetwood, John McVie and Mayall. Mayall gave Green free recording time as a gift, in which Fleetwood, McVie and Green recorded five songs. The fifth song was an instrumental which Green named after the rhythm section, "Fleetwood Mac".

Green contacted Fleetwood to form a new band. The pair desperately wanted McVie on bass and even named the band 'Fleetwood Mac' as a way to entice him. However McVie opted for steady work with Mayall rather than the unknown of a new band. In the meantime Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood teamed up with talented slide player Jeremy Spencer and bassist Bob Brunning, who was in the band on the understanding that he would leave if and when McVie agreed to join. The Green, Fleetwood, Spencer, Brunning version of the band made its debut on 13 August 1967 at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival. Within weeks of this show, John McVie agreed to become the bassist for the band.

Fleetwood Mac's first album, Fleetwood Mac, was a no-frills blues album and was released on the Blue Horizon label in February 1968. In fact there were no other players on the album (except for the song "Long Grey Mare", which was recorded when Bob Brunning was in the band). The album was successful in the UK, hitting no.4, though it did not have any singles on it. The band soon released two singles "Black Magic Woman" (later a big hit for Santana) and "Need Your Love So Bad".

The band's second album, Mr. Wonderful, was released in August 1968. Like the first it was an all-blues album, but this time they made a few changes. The album was recorded live in the studio with miked amplifiers and PA system, rather than plugged into the board. This method provided the ideal environment for producing this style of music, and gave it an authentically vintage sound. They also added horns and featured a friend of the band on keyboards, Christine Perfect of Chicken Shack.

Shortly after the release of their second album Fleetwood Mac added guitarist Danny Kirwan, then just eighteen years old, to their line-up. Green had been frustrated that Jeremy Spencer had little desire to contribute to Green's songs. A mature and accomplished self-taught guitarist, Kirwan's signature vibrato and unique style added a new dimension to an already complete band. With Kirwan the band released their first number one single in Europe, "Albatross". Around this time they released their second American album, English Rose, which contained half of Mr. Wonderful, new songs from Kirwan, and their third European album called The Pious Bird of Good Omen, which was a collection of singles, B-sides, and a selection of some work the band did with Eddie Boyd.

When the band went to the United States in January 1969 they recorded many songs at the soon-to-close Chess Records Studio, with some blues legends of Chicago including Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy and Otis Spann. These would prove, however, to be Fleetwood Mac's last all-blues recordings. Along with their change of style the band was also going through some label changes. Up until this point they had been on Blue Horizon. With Kirwan in the band, however, the musical possibilities were too great for them to stay on a blues-only label. The band signed with the Immediate Records label and released "Man of the World", another British and European hit single. For the B-side Spencer fronted Fleetwood Mac as "Earl Vince and the Valiants" and recorded "Someone's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite", typifying the more raucous rock 'n' roll side of the band. Immediate Records was in bad shape and the band shopped around for a new deal. Even though The Beatles wanted the band on Apple Records (Mick Fleetwood and George Harrison were brothers-in-law), the band's manager Clifford Davis decided to go with Warner Bros. Records (Reprise), the label they have stayed with ever since. Their first album for Reprise, released in September 1969, was the well-regarded Then Play On. The American release of this album contains the song "Oh Well", featured consistently in live performances from the time of its release through 1997 and then again starting in 2009. Then Play On, which was the band's first rock album, featured only the songs of Kirwan and Green. Jeremy Spencer, meanwhile, recorded a solo album (he was backed by the rest of the band) which consisted of many 1950s-style rock and roll songs.

In July 1969 Fleetwood Mac opened for Ten Years After at the Schaefer Music Festival at New York City's Wollman Rink. They re-appeared at the festival in 1970.

Fleetwood Mac were an extremely popular band in Europe at the time. However, Peter Green, the frontman of the band, was not in good health. He had taken LSD in Munich, which contributed to the onset of his schizophrenia.[1]

German author and filmmaker Rainer Langhans mentions in his autobiography that he and Uschi Obermaier met Peter Green in Munich, where they invited him to their "High-Fish-Commune". They were not really interested in Peter Green. They just wanted to get in contact with Mick Taylor: Langhans and Obermaier wished to organise a "Bavarian Woodstock". They wanted Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones to be the leading acts of their Bavarian open air festival. They needed the 'Green God' just to get in contact with The Rolling Stones via Mick Taylor.

Green's last hit with Fleetwood Mac was "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" (first recorded at the Boston Tea Party in February 1970 and later recorded by Judas Priest). Green's mental stability deteriorated, and he wanted to give all of the band's money to charity. Some other members of the band did not agree, and subsequently Green decided to leave the band. His last show with Fleetwood Mac was on 20 May 1970. During that show, the band went past their allotted time, and the power was shut off. Mick Fleetwood kept drumming.

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