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Neal Preston

“When I was 17 I remember listening to Go Your Own Way [from Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumours] and feeling like that song was written for me. Her music represented this edgy freedom. I could listen to her music and feel the danger, even though I was a straight-up kid. She was a poet, she was beautiful and sensual, but she was also clearly the leader of the band. At the time it was a man’s world and she was the only woman competing in it. I wanted to emulate her.

“Landslide [from Fleetwood Mac’s self-titled 1975 album] is one of the greatest songs of all time. What I like about it is the vulnerability, not only in the words, but in the way she sings them. And also the simplicity. It’s very difficult to write a simple, memorable melody with that kind of lyric that everyone understands.[continued]

Stevie Nicks is the epitome of Californian rock excess. While in Fleetwood Mac she sold millions and snorted half of Colombia. Solo, she sold millions and got addicted to painkillers. Unsurprisingly, she has advice for Amy Winehouse.

She still looks like a heroine from romantic fiction—long blonde hair, pale skin, big, dark, peculiarly innocent eyes staring out from under a fringe. She’s wearing a flowing chiffon top, black, fake snakeskin pants and ballet pumps. Except for the lack of heels, the look is classic Stevie Nicks, small enough for a gust of wind to blow over. [continued]

By Donnie Moorhouse
The Republican (Springfield MA)
April 23, 2008

UNCASVILLE, Conn.—While it may not have been as it was billed, the "Very Best of Stevie Nicks," the Sunday night performance at Mohegan Sun Arena turned out to be the least of Stevie Nicks. The singer recited her biggest hits during a too short 13-song set in front of a sold-out crowd.

Except for a few occasions, most notably a relatively earnest version of "Rhiannon," many of Nicks' offerings were more recited than rendered with any passion. If it was the "best," it was only in relative sense.

By Thomas Kinter
Hartford Courant
April 22, 2008

Stevie Nicks has seen more than her share of ups and downs over the last two decades, but the music she made with Fleetwood Mac and as a solo act has seen its popularity endure and given her any number of second chances. The 59-year-old singer's show Sunday night at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville played on that still-considerable nostalgia. [continued]

The Republican
April 21, 2008
By Donnie Moorhouse

UNCASVILLE, CT—While it may not have been as it was billed, the "Very Best of Stevie Nicks," the Sunday night performance at Mohegan Sun turned out to be the least of Stevie Nicks. The singer recited her biggest hits during a too short 13-song set in front of a sold out crowd. [continued]

Stevie performed in concert at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT, on Sunday night. There was no opening act at this performance. As expected, she reprised the set list from Saturday night's show in Reading, PA, but sang the songs well, according to fan reports.

Animated and occasionally silly, Stevie spoke to the crowd during the breaks, sharing some interesting, if not familiar, background to her songs, and reminisced about her dad and her unremarkable life of waitressing and cleaning houses during the Buckingham Nicks era.

The summer leg of the tour begins on June 5 in Biloxi, MS.