Exploring Songs on An Evening With Fleetwood Mac Tour's Setlist!

Did they make you cry? Make you break down? Shatter your illusions of mortality?

They may now be in their 70s, but Fleetwood Mac are still performing with the vigor and zest that pushed them to the forefront of the music scene more than half a century ago.

They're currently on the road promoting An Evening With Fleetwood Mac: a concert tour that celebrates hits and rarities from their entire discography.

The North American Tour kicked off in October at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is scheduled to conclude November 12 in Edmonton, Alberta.

The tour's lineup consists of four of Fleetwood Mac's core five – Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie – as well as newcomers Mike Campbell (Heartbreakers) and Neil Finn (Crowded House). It's the band's first tour without Lindsey Buckingham since 1994's Another Link in the Chain Tour.

Fleetwood Mac are kind of KNOWN for their internal feuding. No one in the group will come out and say Buckingham was necessarily "fired," but Mick Fleetwood said this to Rolling Stone:

"Words like ‘fired’ are ugly references as far as I’m concerned. Not to hedge around, but we arrived at the impasse of hitting a brick wall. This was not a happy situation for us in terms of the logistics of a functioning band. To that purpose, we made a decision that we could not go on with him. Majority rules in term of what we need to do as a band and go forward."

An Evening With Fleetwood Mac was announced as a farewell tour, but in the words of Christine McVie: "you take farewell tours one at a time. Somehow we always come together, this unit. We can feel it ourselves."

They've been playing cuts from Rumors, Tango in the Night, Mirage, English Rose, Then Play On and others, highlighting songs like "Rhiannon," "Don't Stop," "Everywhere" and "Landslide."

Cue up our Setlist Playlist on Spotify and keep reading for a closer look at some of the songs Fleetwood Mac are playing on this tour!

"The Chain"

Arguably one of Fleetwood Mac's most popular songs, "The Chain" was recorded in 1976 and was featured on the band's legendary 11th studio album, Rumors.

It's the only song on the album accredited to all five members; the others were worked on individually by the band's main writers, Buckingham, Nicks and Christine McVie.

Rumors has been cited by many as one of the most evocative expressions of a band's internal crumbling. During the writing and recording process, Buckingham and Nicks were ending their relationship, as were John and Christine McVie and Fleetwood and his wife, Jenny Boyd.

"The Chain" has become a staple in the band's live shows, and almost always serves as their opening number. It's their third most-played song, having been played live 953 times.

Fleetwood Mac, "The Chain"

"Everywhere"

This track off 1987's Tango in the Night was written and sung by Christine McVie.

It was the fourth single released off the album, following "Big Love," "Seven Wonders" and "Little Lies" and preceding the other two singles "Family Man" and "Isn't It Midnight." The song debuted at No. 14 on the U.S. top 20 charts upon its initial release and has since been covered by various artists.

"Everywhere" has an accompanying music video that's a visual depiction of Alfred Noyes' poem, "The Highwayman."

Fleetwood Mac, "Everywhere"

"Gold Dust Woman"

"Gold Dust Woman" is the 11th and final track on Rumors.

The song is widely speculated to be a reference to the band's heady heyday during the Rumors writing process, but Nicks refutes that idea, saying it's actually not about drugs at all.

"I wrote ‘Gold Dust Woman’ before we started Rumours, and there weren’t that many drugs around back then," she said.

"It’s about groupie-type women who would stand around and give Christine and me dirty looks. But as soon as one of the guys came in the room, they were overcome with smiles. We recorded seven takes of that song and kept take 4 as the master."
Fleetwood Mac, "Gold Dust Woman"

"Rhiannon"

This song was written and sung by Stevie Nicks for the band's eponymous album in 1975, and was subsequently released as a single the following year. It has become one of Nicks' most notable works.

"Rhiannon" chronicles the story of an old Welsh witch called Rhiannon, who Nicks read about in the novel Triad: A Novel of the Supernatural.

"It's just about a very mystical woman that is finds it very, very hard to be tied down in any kind of way," she said.

"...and she's uplifting all through the song. That's what I wanted to get and that's what the band got really well, was that uplifting of wings kind of a feel... You know when you feel like you see a seagull and she's like lifting up? Well, that's, that's Rhiannon. Rhiannon...yeah. She's moving up."
Fleetwood Mac, "Rhiannon"

There are still plenty of opportunities to catch Fleetwood Mac live before the tour comes to a close! Tickets can be found on Live Nation, and you can see the remaining dates on their website.

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Last updated: 16 Apr 2024, 17:03 Etc/UTC