Pushkin

Lindsey Buckingham's signature fingerstyle guitar is perhaps as recognizable as the countless

classic songs he wrote, while he was in Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham is a self-taught guitar virtuoso

and songwriter who famously joined Fleetwood Mac in the mid-70s with his then-girlfriend

Stevie Nicks. The band had been around since 67 with various singers, guitarists and songwriters.

The only constant was the rhythm section, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVee.

But the band didn't blow up until Buckingham and Nicks joined, writing mega hits for their

insanely successful 10th and 11th albums, including the 20 times platinum, Rivers. A lot of

the songs were about Buckingham's romantic fallout with Nicks. In nearly half a century

later, tensions between the two are still very much alive. In 2018, Stevie Nicks supposedly

had Buckingham fired from Fleetwood Mac after he asked for some time away from the band

to work on his solo album. On today's episode, Bruce had them talk

to Lindsey Buckingham about that solo album. Buckingham also tells Bruce that he and

Nicks never really got closure from the breakup and how that affected their professional

relationship in the decades since.

This is Broken Record, line of notes for the digital age. I'm Justin Richmond.

Here's Bruce Hadlam with Lindsey Buckingham.

So tell me about this album.

Well, you know, I have had this ready to go for three years at least. I had actually

finished it right after Christine McVee and I did that duet album a few years back and

we had Christine and I had done a tour. It was my intention to put this current album

out back to back with that and do at least an American tour behind it before embarking

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