Andrew Bird and Madison Cunningham on Why They Covered the Rare, Pre-Fleetwood Mac ‘Buckingham Nicks’ Album: ‘It Was Appealing That It Was Inaccessible to a Lot of People’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Is “Buckingham Nicks,” the 1973 album that Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks recorded just before joining Fleetwood Mac, a classic album, a lost album, or both?
The LP falls into an odd category shared by possibly no other in the world: a record made by superstars that has never been issued on CD or in any digital form, let alone re-released on vinyl.
Bootlegs abound, certainly, but more than 50 years have gone by now without any legitimate chance to hear it, except for picking up a copy of the original, which was never manufactured in the mass quantities that a Mac album would have been.
The most inexplicable part of all: It’s a great album. Enter “Cunningham Bird” — that is, great-in-their-own-right singer-songwriters Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird, who have joined forces to record their own version of the ’73 album, top to bottom, set to come out Oct.
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