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Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House Audio CD

A fair review of the Fleetwood Mac "Kiln House" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Fleetwood Mac reviews here, or go back to the Fleetwood Mac tabs.

Fleetwood Mac Band: Fleetwood Mac
Title: Kiln House
Rating:
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: This Is the Rock 2: Station Man 3: Blood on the Floor 4: Hi Ho Silver 5: Jewel Eyed Judy 6: Buddy's Song 7: Earl Gray 8: One Together 9: Tell Me All the Things You Do 10: Mission Bell

The Green-less Mac "Get It Together In The Country"
" Rudderless? Quite. A reviewer in Music Hound's book "Rock: The Essential Album Guide" is quoted as labeling Fleetwood Mac's 1970 album "Kiln House" as a "rudderless album drifting aimlessly in search of a tunesmith. Stylistically this thing is all over the place! In search of a tunesmith? No! This Mac album is as tuneful as any of their albums, maybe even more so in some ways. After all the jovial Jeremy Spencer is leading the Mac here with his love of '50s rock and roll, and his songs are definitely fun. Daniel Kirwan turns in some killer rockers on "Kiln House," probably the heaviest he ever got on a Mac album. Even though the two sides don't mix together very well it makes for some great individual moments. It definitely makes "Kiln House" one of the most unique of any Fleetwood Mac albums that's for sure! It's probably a miracle that "Kiln House" was made in the first place, takes a whole lot of courage to soldier on after your star player leaves your band. But Fleetwood Mac remained brave, and for that they deserve a hand.

"Kiln House" is a good album, but poorly sequenced and that is where it tends to suffer. If you own the CD may I suggest programming the album with the following track sequence:

1. This Is The Rock
2. Hi Ho Silver
3. Buddy's Song
4. Blood On The Floor
5. Earl Gray
6. Station Man
7. Jewel Eyed Judy
8. One Together
9. Mission Bell
10. Tell Me All The Things You Do

"This Is The Rock" opens "Kiln House" perfectly and should remain the album's opening cut. However "Mission Bell" should not have been the album's closer, it leaves a sense of hanging. Danny Kirwan's freak out "Tell Me All The Things You Do" makes for a much better closing cut with it's air of finality due to it's heaviness and length. "Station Man" with it's fade up intro would have made a much better opening cut for side two and would have followed the fade out to the instrumental "Earl Gray" really good from side one. "One Together" and "Mission Bell" were sequenced one after the other on my 8-track tape copy I used to have back in the early '80s, so I've always associated them as being close together in nature.

"Kiln House" was a very brave album for Mac in the midst of some great turmoil. At three stars, I would rate it as a GOOD album, not great. For the fact that it is a very personal album for some, including me, I'd say three and a half stars, good to very good. Definitely worth checking out and recommended! .


"Kiln House CD"
The transition from analog to digital was well done. Having owned the original Vinyl recording, I'm very happy to have received one of the cd's that was recorded in the early 80's. Fleetwood Mac was also in transition when this album came out and the years following, this CD was quite hard to obtain, as there were some arguments over who "Fleetwood Mac" was. All an All very satisfied with the CD and gratified to have been once again reunited with the music there in.


Back In The Day...
It may still be!. Back in the day, we used to say Kiln House was the best Fleetwood Mac album ever.


Kiln House
For those listeners who appreciate the vintage Fleetwood Mac, Kiln House is the one to get, along with Bare Trees.


Best Mac of the Pac
Given that the band had just lost Peter Green -- the best combination singer/lead guitarist in rock music history, save perhaps Stevie Ray Vaughn -- it is simply stunning that the band could recover and record a subtle masterpiece like "Kiln House. No time to do this magnificent album justice here, but suffice to say I am a pretty hard core fan of the Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac (up through "Bare Trees" -- when the last of the terrific trioka of original guitarist/singers, Danny Kirwan, left the band) and this is may favorite Mac attack. " It is totally different than anything that came before or after it in the Mac discography. Jermey Spencer had to come to the fore, and he did -- big time. But not with the Elmore James-inspired slide-guitar blues that had previously been his forte. Instead, you get the melodic, Buddy Holly-ish Spencer on "Mission Bell," "One Together" and "Buddy's Song," and the harder, Elvis-loving Spencer on "This is the Rock" and "Hi Ho Silver. " He even chips in with a hilarious send-up of a maudlin country tear-jerker with "Blood on the Floor. " Danny Kirwan also had to step it up, and did, with superb rockers like "Jewel-Eyed Judy" and "Tell me All The Things You Do," and the beautiful, moody instrumental "Earl Gray" (named for the English brand of tea, I suppose) which is about the only other number Mac ever did that is somewhat in the mode of the incomprable "Albatross" from the band's U. S. "English Rose" album. Sadly, Jeremy left the band after this ablum, and Danny lasted only two more records. After another three or so rather aimless albums with constantly changing personel (only Bob Welch's song "Hypnotized" really made much of a mark from these records) it was on to the dreaded superstardom of the Buckingham-Nicks era, and the complete bastardization of the band's proud musical legacy.
So Mick, when are we going to get a deluxe edition of this lost masterpiece? .


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