LOS ANGELES — Stevie Nicks is at work on a brand new album full of “memories of mine of fantastic men.”
“I have seven songs, and they are autobiographical real stories where I’m not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life,” the 76-year-old rock icon stated. “They are not airy, fairy songs that you are wondering who they are about but you don’t really get it.”
Nicks shared particulars in regards to the upcoming LP — her first assortment of recent songs in practically a decade and a half — in a speech final week on the Pollstar Awards, a live-music business occasion on the Beverly Hilton the place she was inducted into the commerce journal’s corridor of fame.
The Fleetwood Mac singer and songwriter stated she’s calling the album “The Ghost Record” as a result of it grew out of the latest Los Angeles wildfires.
“I was sitting in a hotel for 92 days,” she informed the viewers of music-biz insiders, “and at some point during that last part of the 92 days, I said, ‘You know what? I feel like I’m on the road, but there’s no shows. I’m just sitting here by myself because everybody else is at the house doing all the remediations and everything, and it’s just me sitting here.’ And I thought: You need to go back to work. And I did.” (Nicks spoke at January’s FireAid profit live performance about firefighters saving her practically century-old dwelling in Pacific Palisades.)
Nicks introduced Monday that she’ll tour this yr beginning in August, alternating solo dates and gigs with Billy Joel, with whom she performed Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium in 2023. Her most up-to-date LP was 2014’s “24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault,” which provided new recordings of orphaned tunes she’d written as way back as 1969; “In Your Dreams,” her final album of originals, got here out in 2011.
Final yr she launched a single referred to as “The Lighthouse” that she wrote in regards to the Supreme Courtroom overturning Roe v. Wade. After touring with Fleetwood Mac minus Lindsey Buckingham in 2018 and 2019, Nicks has expressed doubt that the band will play once more following Christine McVie’s dying in 2022.
