Doing the Dance of Life
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM IS ONCE AGAIN PLAYING to live audiences on his latest American tour, which is somewhat miraculous given what he’s been through over the last few years. In 2018, he was fired from Fleetwood Mac. The band’s enormous success over 45 years was in no small part due to Buckingham’s work as singer, songwriter, guitarist and arranger. Then in 2019, during triple bypass surgery his vocal cords were damaged by the insertion of a breathing tube.
Today, Buckingham says he’s feeling great and is readying the release of his self-titled solo album (due out September 17), his first since 2011. The material on Lindsey Buckingham had been prepared prior to his split from Fleetwood Mac.
“When I finished that duet album [2017’s ] with Christine and toured it, then it was my idea to put this current album out back-to-back with that and do just a short American tour before going back out with Fleetwood Mac. There was some resistance from certain people to allow me to do that, which was disappointing. So it had been finished that long ago. But I do have to say that perhaps the themes that I was touching on, with all that’s happened in the last three years, does inform the material in a way, which makes it way more visceral for me now for sure.”
