25-07-2025
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham Confirm Rumored Project: 'A Very Natural Thing'
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham Confirm Rumored Project: 'A Very Natural Thing' originally appeared on Parade.
Billboards don't lie.
The release of the - album that fans recently saw promoted on a billboard on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles was confirmed on July 23.
The rare 1973 album titled Buckingham Nicks, featuring Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks before they went on to join Fleetwood Mac, will be released on Sept. 19 with newly remastered sound on CD and digitally for the first time.
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It will also be available in two different limited-edition vinyl versions, including one with bonus replica 7-inch singles.
The duo of Buckingham and Nicks, formerly of the San Francisco group Fritz, recorded the self-titled album for Polydor in 1973. Mick Fleetwood discovered them when engineer Keith Olsen played him a few cuts off Buckingham Nicks to demonstrate the sound capabilities of Sound City in Van Nuys, Calif. Fleetwood was impressed not only by the sound of the studio, but by Olsen and the guitar player.
The song Olsen played Fleetwood that day was 'Frozen Love,' which is included on the reissue of Buckingham Nicks, along with 'Crying in the Night,' the first track from the reissue that was released to streaming services on July the Rhino High Fidelity liner notes, written by noted music journalist David Fricke, Nicks spoke about her partnership with Buckingham. '[We] knew what we had as a duo, two songwriters that sang really well together. And it was a very natural thing, from the beginning,' she said.
Buckingham added that although they were inexperienced when the recorded the album, 'it stands up in a way you hope it would, by these two kids who were pretty young to be doing that work.'
Not long after Fleetwood first heard Buckingham Nicks, then-Fleetwood Mac singer-guitarist Bob Welch left the band. Fleetwood reached out to Buckingham to fill the spot, but he would only take the gig if his partner, Nicks, was part of the deal. On New Year's Eve 1974, Buckingham and Nicks officially joined the band, launching not only the group's most successful chapter, but one of the best-selling recording acts in music history.
It remains to be seen if the re-release of Buckingham Nicks will lead to the duo reuniting to promote the album or Buckingham rejoining Fleetwood Mac.
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham Confirm Rumored Project: 'A Very Natural Thing' first appeared on Parade on Jul 23, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 23, 2025, where it first appeared.
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