EVER-GREEN SETS

Although we continue to mourn the recent passing of Peter Green, the gods of synchronicity at least offer us one small consolation, in the form of a lavish, and richly deserved, deluxe edition of his final album with Fleetwood Mac, 1970’s Then Play On (BMG).

It’s spread over four sides of vinyl, doubling its size from the first time around; first by splitting the original 14 track U.K. pressing over three sides (the original U.S. edition dropped two tracks) and then appending both sides of the band’s last couple of singles across side four. Remembering that two of those tracks, “Oh Well” parts one and two, were also added to later pressings of the LP (replacing two more of the original’s contents), it really is the whole thing in one place.

The immediate consequence of such benevolence, however, is to open out the sound way