‘And she’s coming, singing soft and low…’ When I heard the lyrics, I thought: that’s me! They probably wrote it about Janis Joplin or someone like that but I was convinced it was about me.” (Farout reports)
“By 1968 I was in a band with Lindsey [Buckingham]. His family lived in the same gated community as us, and we would practise at his house. My mum and dad liked him,” Nicks shares.
But the two kids at the core of this tale wanted to escape the confines of their cosy upbringing, and Buffalo Springfield seemed to forecast that for them. You can’t hear a line like, “There’s something happening here” and not want to find out what that means as a teenager. So, Nicks and her new soulmate played it to death, formulating an understanding of the mystic nature of music in the process.
The next selection is a pivotal record for all those fans of Stevie Nicks’s work in Fleetwood Mac. Nicks’ picks Crosby, Stills & Nash’s self-titled 1969 record and says it is the “album that taught me how to sing harmony.” Such a vital column of Fleetwood Mac’s legend would not have been possible with Crosby, Stills and Nash.
I spent a whole summer singing along to this record. I loved the harmonies, and learned to sing all three of the parts. I knew that I wanted to be in a band with the same kind of harmonies.
