CHRONICLE PAUL ALESSANDRINI MAGAZINE ROCK & FOLK January 1970 No. 36 Page 79 3rd Album 1969 33 rpm Ref: Reprise Record 6110 French press Fleetwood Mac, always bluesyment web. But we can not say that there is no progression. After a stage in which he appealed to the illustrious references (particularly Elmore James), his music has been refined. It is now more of a near perfect reproduction of the old standards, but to redefine without breaking, without shock, a musical material which is proven; we go towards personalization of this music. Also the musicians of Mac Fleetwood they not hesitate to walk away, without thereby losing sight, engine sway bluesy rhythm. The melody is less square, thick, is sweet without blandness, as in "Without You." No wonder then that every single new Fleetwood Mac rose to the top of the charts? It is always the same question: what does it take to pop music? Surely that offers Fleetwood Mac will delight those who want to be lulled into a music without excess, without violence, but that does not ignore the pace inherited from the old bluesmen.
