Essential Oils -- are wrung --
The Attar from the Rose
Be not expressed by Suns -- alone --
It is the gift of Screws --
The General Rose -- decay --
But this -- in Lady's Drawer
Make Summer -- When the Lady lie
In Ceaseless Rosemary --
- Emily Dickinson
Songs for the original Gift Of Screws were recorded throughout the nineties, but when Warners execs listened to Buckingham's mixed and mastered CD, it was obvious how much more valuable these gems would be as Fleetwood Mac. So seven tracks were tweaked and Stevie'd for inclusion on 2003's Say You Will. Other Gift Of Screws tunes turned up on solo and group projects over the years, the title cut finally appearing as such in 2008, but here's the CD submitted to Warners, supplemented by four outtakes and demos (*), easily revertable to the official seventeen track CD with running sequence in first download. As said, remixes or remakes of many titles are available elsewhere, but they make a fine song cycle as the author intended. Shadow Of The West compiles twenty soundtrack contributions, live cuts, outtakes, demos and guest appearances from 1979 to 2012, as well as the clean, minimal mix of I Know I'm Not Wrong that was used on vinyl copies of Tusk and has not appeared since then, even on a deluxe edition CD set featuring no less than three demos showing stages of that song's evolution. Secret Screws has been assembled from CD, torrent, message board and YouTube, so bitrates are what they are.
Warner/Reprise 2001 (unreleased)
01 Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind
02 Miranda
03 Steal Your Heart Away
04 Red Rover
05 Come
06 She Smiled Sweetly
07 Down On Rodeo
08 Murrow
09 To Try For The Sun
10 Shuffle Riff
11 My Little Demon*
12 Deep Dense*
13 Gift Of Screws
14 Bleed To Love Her
15 Go Insane
16 Given Thing*
17 Gotta Get Away
18 Twist Of Fate
19 Wear You Down (Steve's Riff)*
20 Say Goodbye
21 The Singer Not The Song
Shadow Of The West
01 I Know I'm Not Wrong (Tusk original mix)
02 Demo #2 (Tusk demo)
03 Blue Monday (Mirage jam)
04 Goodbye Angel (Mirage outtake)
05 Teen Beat (Mirage outtake)
06 Holiday Road (live on WBCN Boston 03-26-93)
07 Eyes Of The World (Mirage demo)
08 Hold Me (Mirage w/ Lindsey lead vocal)
09 Time Bomb Town (Back To The Future OST)
10 I've Been Loving You Too Long (Mirage jam)
11 I Want You Back (Mick Fleetwood's Zoo)
12 Magnet And Steel (Walter Egan)
13 The Spinning Of The World (John Stewart)
14 Walls (Tom Petty)
15 On The Wrong Side (With Honors OST)
16 Peacekeeper (non-Mac alternate)
17 Stephanie (live in Fort Worth 08-24-12)
18 She Acts Like You (This Is 40 OST)
19 Shadow Of The West (Law And Order)
20 The Farmer's Daughter (Fleetwood Mac Live)
Secret Gift Of Screws
Shadow Of The West
4 comments:
takes me back to the Mac days--thanks, reservatory
terrific music, some kind of "white album", i've been listening to it with pleasure many times over.
All in all, maybe his best solo album?
Thank you so much for this!
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