Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours

by Pete Smyser

Overview

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is one of the handful of genuine blockbusters in pop/rock history, selling over 40 million copies around the world in 20 years, which means that most musicians have heard it at least once, even if they were not influenced by it. Keeping that in mind, it would seem that Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours -- a track by track re-recording of the album by contemporary artists -- had the potential to be a collection of diverse reinterpretations of familiar songs. Instead, it's a bunch of adult contemporary and adult alternative pop/rock artists primarily sticking to the original arrangements. Some groups do shake it up a bit -- Matchbox 20 recasts "Never Going Back Again" in minor chords, the Goo Goo Dolls rock up "I Don't Want to Know" -- but for the most part, the interpretations follow the original recording. That's not necessarily a bad thing -- Elton John's "Don't Stop," Shawn Colvin's "The Chain" and Duncan Sheik's "Songbird" are all pleasant -- but it doesn't make the album particularly interesting, either. Of course, it would have been hard to record a new version of Rumours that betters the original, but this tribute is so predictable that it's a little numbing. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	03/13/1998
Label:	Atlantic Mod / Lava/Atlantic
UPC:	0075678305429
Rank:	149024

Tracks

1. Second Hand News  - Lindsey Buckingham  -  Tonic
2. Dreams  -  Corrs  - Stevie Nicks
3. Never Going Back Again  - Lindsey Buckingham  -  Matchbox Twenty
4. Don't Stop  - Elton John  - Christine McVie
5. Go Your Own Way  - Lindsey Buckingham  -  Cranberries
6. Songbird  - Christine McVie  - Duncan Sheik
7. The Chain  - Lindsey Buckingham  - Shawn Colvin  - Mick Fleetwood  - Christine McVie  - John McVie  - Stevie Nicks
8. You Make Loving Fun  -  Jewel  - Christine McVie
9. I Don't Want to Know  -  Goo Goo Dolls  - Stevie Nicks
10. Oh Daddy  - Christine McVie  -  Tallulah
11. Gold Dust Woman  - Stevie Nicks  -  Sister Hazel

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Pete Smyser   Primary Artist,Guitar
Shawn Colvin   Primary Artist,Vocals
The Corrs   Primary Artist
Sister Hazel   Primary Artist
The Cranberries   Primary Artist
Elton John   Primary Artist,Organ,Piano,Vocals
Duncan Sheik   Primary Artist
Tallulah   Primary Artist,Vocals
Goo Goo Dolls   Primary Artist
Jewel   Primary Artist,Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Matchbox Twenty   Primary Artist
Tonic   Primary Artist
John Swana   Guest Artist,Flugelhorn
Caroline Corr   Vocals (Background)
Emerson Hart   Guitar,Vocals
Dan Lavery   Bass,Vocals (Background)
Jeff Russo   Guitar,Vocals (Background)
Jett Beres   Bass
John Leventhal   Multi Instruments
Ryan Newell   Multi Instruments
Jim Ridl   Piano
Matt Serletic   Piano,Fender Rhodes
Mark Trojanowski   Drums
Mark V.   Loops,Sequencing
Alfreda Gerald   Vocals (Background)
Sharon Corr   Violin,Vocals (Background)
Simon Hale   Conductor
Andrew Copeland   Vocals
Brian Mitchell   Organ
Tom Hurst   Percussion
Ken Block   Vocals
Mike Malinin   Drums
John Rzeznik   Guitar,Vocals
Oliver Leiber   Guitar
Brian Yale   Bass
Byron Landham   Drums
Davey Johnstone   Guitar,Vocals (Background)
Charlie Morgan   Percussion
Paul Ebersold   Wurlitzer
John Mahon   Percussion,Vocals (Background)
Paul Doucette   Drums
Andrea Corr   Vocals,Tin Whistle
Chris Von Sneidern   Guitar (Acoustic)
Chuck Prophet   Guitar
Bob Birch   Bass
Kevin Shepard   Drums
Paul Butler   Clarinet,Clarinet (Bass)
Ted Lis   Saxophone,Sax (Tenor),Sax (Baritone)
Kyle Cook   Guitar,Vocals (Background)
David Revelli   Drums,Percussion
Lenny Castro   Percussion
Penny Ray   Vocals (Background)
Robby Takac   Bass,Vocals (Background)
Rick DePofi   Horn
Darryl Hall   Bass
Bruce Kaphan   Pedal Steel
Guy Babylon   Sampling,Keyboards
Adam Gaynor   Guitar,Vocals (Background)
Steve Young   Recorder
Matthew Brubeck   Cello
Shawn Pelton   Drums
Rob Thomas   Vocals
Billy Trudell   Vocals (Background)
Norm   Loops
Dan   Loops,Sequencing

Technical Credits

Duncan Sheik   Performer,Producer
Lou Giordano   Engineer,Producer
Greg Archilla   Mixing,Engineer
John Vanore   Engineer
John Leventhal   Engineer,Producer
George Gershwin   Composer
Rob Mounsey   Arranger,Programming
Ryan Hewitt   Mixing,Engineer
Ryan Williams   Mixing Assistant
Lindsey Buckingham   Composer
Matt Serletic   Producer
Phil Ramone   Mixing,Engineer,Producer
Burton Lane   Composer
Shawn Colvin   Performer
Sister Hazel   Group,Arranger,Performer
Simon Hale   Producer,String Arrangements
Dolores O'Riordan   Producer
The Corrs   Group,Performer
Bill Cutler   Mixing Assistant
Christian McBride   Composer
John McVie   Composer
Mick Fleetwood   Composer,Producer,Art Direction,Executive Producer
Mike Plotnikoff   Mixing,Engineer
Mike Ross   Engineer
Norman Kerner   Mixing,Engineer,Producer
Oliver Leiber   Producer,Programming
Daniel Presley   Mixing,Engineer,Producer
Tadd Dameron   Composer
Paul Ebersold   Mixing,Arranger,Engineer,Producer
Stephen Marcussen   Mastering
Ted Jensen   Mastering
Kevin Weaver   Associate Executive Producer
Chris Lord-Alge   Mixing
The Cranberries   Performer
Elton John   Performer
Steve Hall   Mastering
Pete Smyser   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Peter Rafelson   Producer,Programming
Jack Joseph Puig   Mixing,Producer
Christine McVie   Composer
Craig Bishop   Assistant Engineer
Crash   Guitar Technician
Joe Ferla   Mixing,Engineer
Marc Hunt   Assistant Engineer
Fred Remmert   Engineer
Rudy Haeusermann   Assistant Engineer
Paul James   Composer
Herbert Worthington III   Photography
Bob Perkins   Liner Notes
Tony Adams   Drum Technician
Chris Carroll   Assistant Engineer
Scott Carlson   Executive Producer
Tallulah   Performer
Al Sanderson   Assistant Engineer
Simon Obarzanek   Photography
Jason Flom   Executive Producer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
DuBose Heyward   Composer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
Scott Young   Assistant Engineer
Rob Chiarelli   Mixing
Jewel   Performer
Richard A. Whiting   Composer
Rick DePofi   Assistant Engineer
Kay Swift   Composer
Matt Martone   Mixing Assistant
Matchbox Twenty   Group
Michael Mangini   Loop Master
Davey Johnstone   Producer
Bruce Fairbairn   Producer
Matt Still   Engineer
Guy Babylon   Engineer,Producer,Remixing
Harold Adamson   Composer
Steve Young   Engineer
Tonic   Performer
Stevie Nicks   Composer
Goo Goo Dolls   Performer
Glenn Carty   Assistant Engineer
Lynn Kowalewski   Art Direction
Bill Wittman   Mixing
Stuart Grusin   Digital Editing
Matt Silva   Engineer
Carl Stubner   Executive Producer