1 	Coming Your Way 	3:45
2 	Closing My Eyes 	4:51
3 	Fighting For Madge 	2:42
4 	When You Say 	4:31
5 	Show-Biz Blues 	3:51
6 	Underway 	3:04
7 	One Sunny Day 	3:13
8 	Although The Sun Is Shining 	2:25
9 	Rattlesnake Shake 	3:30
10 	Without You 	4:35
11 	Searching For Madge 	6:56
12 	My Dream 	3:31
13 	Like Crying 	2:25
14 	Before The Beginning 	3:30
	Bonus Tracks
15 	Oh Well - Pt. 1 	3:22
16 	Oh Well - Pt. 2 	5:39
17 	The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown) 	4:37
18 	World In Harmony 	3:26

Bass – John McVie
Drums – Mick Fleetwood
Guitar – Danny Kirwan
Guitar, Vocals – Jeremy Spencer, Peter Green

This year saw the reissue of two vintage albums by Fleetwood Mac: the hugely popular Rumours,and the last album to feature the band's founder, Peter Green, called Then Play On.

"I think it's one of the most beautiful records and exciting records ever made," Rolling Stone senior writer David Fricke says. He wrote the liner notes for the reissue.

"I think as a statement of searching — within blues, within rock, within the possibilities of the electric guitar — like I said, I think it's one of the best records ever made," Fricke says. "I've got three copies of it — I wouldn't be caught with anything less."

Then Play On was recorded in the spring and summer of 1969, and the story of the album is the story of a band at a turning point. The previous fall, Fleetwood Mac added 17-year-old guitarist and singer Danny Kirwan, giving the band a powerful three-man front.

"You had Peter Green playing the B.B. King-style Chicago blues, mainly; Danny Kirwan with his more melodic rock, as it turned into; and then Jeremy Spencer doing these remarkable Elmore James impersonations is what they were, really," says Peter Green's biographer, Martin Celmins. "And for all that package to be in one band was a huge draw. And the response they got from the audience was wild. You know, they were just the top live band." ---Tom Cole, npr.org

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A1 	My Heart Beat Like A Hammer 	2:55
A2 	Merry Go Round 	4:05
A3 	Long Grey Mare 	2:15
A4 	Hellhound On My Trail 	2:00
A5 	Shake Your Moneymaker 	2:55
A6 	Looking For Somebody 	2:50
B1 	No Place To Go 	3:20
B2 	My Baby's Good To Me 	2:50
B3 	I Loved Another Woman 	2:55
B4 	Cold Black Night 	3:15
B5 	The World Keep On Turning 	2:30
B6 	Got To Move 	3:20

Bass – Bob Brunning (tracks: A3), John McVie 
Drums – Mick Fleetwood
Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica – Peter Green
Vocals, Slide Guitar, Piano – Jeremy Spencer 

Fleetwood Mac began when Peter Green, guitarist of British blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, replaced their drummer Asynsley Dunbar with his friend Mick Fleetwood. Green became dissatisfied with the Bluesbreakers and formed a new band with Fleetwood, naming the band Fleetwood Mac after the rhythm section of their old band (McVie and Fleetwood). Soon after, the band recruited slide guitar player Jeremy Spencer, and they eventually released their first, eponymously titled studio album, in February of 1968. The record was largely a commercial success in Britain, where it stayed on the charts for nearly a year, though it barely made a mark in the United States.

Fleetwood Mac is a straight-up blues album, miles away from their later, more famous work with Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, and Lindsey Buckingham. With that being said, that doesn’t mean the band’s work here should be discredited, as they played their music with just enough originality and plenty of driving intensity. Three of the twelve songs on the album are old blues standards, but Green and Spencer clearly had a talent for songwriting, as their originals are often above the level of the cover songs. In fact, much of the appeal of the record would be lost if not for Peter Green, who has an oddly Hendrix-esque quality to his voice that accompanies the music quite well. He’s also a superb songwriter as well, better than slide guitarist Spencer, even, though his songs blend well enough into the overall flow of the album.

The best song on the record may be “Long Grey Mare,” which has a galloping guitar riff unlike any other and harmonica sections that are actually used in a way that compliment the song. The variety of the album of is pretty much split into two categories; fast and aggressive like the aforementioned song, and slow and glum like “Looking for Somebody,” another Green song which gets the somber part of blues just right, driven by piano and a slow, heavy bass beat. “Hellhound On My Trail” is another song that belongs in the latter category, a Robert Johnson song played solely on the piano by Green. You’d expect the two dynamics to get old, but being an older album, Fleetwood Mac is just over a half-hour long, perfectly fitted to its running-time as there is little, if any, filler.

Fleetwood Mac may not have been a landmark record, but it’s a rock-solid debut from a fresh-faced band who were playing blues rock the way that it should have been. It can be recommended to anyone with a passing interest in blues or ‘Mac, and it’s easily one of the highpoints of their long, tumultuous career. Take it for what it is and you’ll have a very enjoyable album in your hands. ---Lakes, sputnikmusic.com

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A1 	Got To Move 	4:35
A2 	I Held My Baby Last Night 	5:25
A3 	My Baby's Sweet 	3:28
A4 	My Baby's A Good 'Un 	5:07
A5 	Don't Know Which Way To Go 	6:37
B1 	Buzz Me 	3:45
B2 	The Dream 	6:30
B3 	The World Keeps On Turning 	3:58
B4 	How Blue Can You Get 	5:13
B5 	Bleeding Heart 	4:51

Mick Fleetwood  - Drums
Peter Green - Guitar, Vocals
John McVie - Bass
Jeremy Spencer – Guitar

Though they ultimately made their name as a blues-rock band, and Peter Green's admiration of artists like Jerry Garcia eventually found its way into their music, Fleetwood Mac began as a straight-ahead blues band. A bunch of Brits devoted to the music of Chicago and the Delta, Green and company couldn't help but put their own twist on the blues, but they were simultaneously reverential towards it. This is the situation presented in this 1968 live recording.

While the sound quality is less than stellar, it's good enough to make the guitar talents of Green and Jeremy Spencer obvious, as they work up effective solos over "Got To Move," "Vuzz Me" and others. Unlike their peers, who used blues as a vehicle to something larger and louder, Mac circa '68 stuck close to their roots and made it work. The live setting proved even more inspiring for the two guitarists, whose blistering lead work is the central focus throughout this album. ---allmusic.com

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Disc 1
01 Madison Blues
02 My Baby's Gone
03 My Baby's Skinny
04 Worried Dream
05 Dust My Broom
06 Got To Move
07 Worried Mind
08 instrumental
09 Have You Ever Loved A Woman?
10 Lazy Poker Blues

Disc 2
01 Stop Messin' 'Round
02 I Loved Another Woman
03 I Believe
04 The Sun Is Shining
05 Long Tall Sally
06 Willie & The Hand Jive
07 Tuti Frutti
08 Announcer band intros
09 Ready Teddy
10 I Need Your Love So Bad
11 I Believe
12 Shake Your Moneymaker
13 Ready Teddy
14 Announcer outro

Peter Green - guitar, vocals
John McVie - bass
Mick Fleetwood - drums
Jeremy Spencer - guitar, vocals
Paul Butterfield - harp (CD2, 1-5)

From Peter Green's stage comments, this is from one week into Fleetwood Mac's first U.S. tour and he sounds like he's having a really good time on the last night of a 3 show run with Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. This is presumed to be the last night because Peter Green makes a comment about how they'll be back in 2 weeks (not the following night). I think that they returned to the Carousel on the 22nd or 23rd of June. --- silveradoraremusic.blogspot.com

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01 - Need Your Love So Bad 03:57
02 - Comin' Home 02:42
03 - Rambling Pony 02:44
04 - The Big Boat 02:40
05 - I Believe My Time Ain't Long 02:59
06 - The Sun Is Shining 03:15
07 - Albatross 03:14                     play
08 - Black Magic Woman 02:51             play
09 - Just The Blues 05:41
10 - Jigsaw Puzzle Blues 01:38
11 - Looking For Somebody 02:54
12 - Stop Messin' Round 02:20

Bass – John McVie
Drums – Mick Fleetwood
Guitar – Danny Kirwen
Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica – Peter Green
Slide Guitar, Vocals, Piano – Jeremy Spencer 

With songs taken from Fleetwood Mac and Mr. Wonderful, Pious Bird of Good Omen serves as a worthy 12-track compilation of the band's early Peter Green days. Climbing to number 18 in the U.K., the album managed to catapult Fleetwood Mac's version of Little Willie John's "Need Your Love So Bad" into the English charts for the third time, resting at number 42. The album itself was released by Blue Horizon after the group's contract with them had expired, making it one of the best routes in which to explore their mingling of Chicago and British blues. "Albatross," "Black Magic Woman," and "I Believe My Time Ain't Long" are timeless Fleetwood Mac standards, representing some of the band's best pre-Rumours work. Anyone who isn't familiar with Fleetwood Mac's origins should use Pious Bird of Good Omen as a starting point in investigating the first wave of the band, which will almost certainly lead to further interests into albums such as English Rose, Then Play On, and Kiln House, and then into later albums like Bare Trees and Penguin, which reveal subtle yet effective changes in the band's blues sound. But even aside from its purpose as a collection, Pious Bird of Good Omen makes for a terrific laid-back stroll through some of the best British blues music ever made. ---Mike DeGagne, AllMusic Review

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1. You Got to Reap
2. Just the Blues
3. She's Real            
4. Back Slack            
5. Be Careful
6. Ten to One
7. Blues Is Here to Stay
8. You Are My Love
9. Third Degree
10. Thank You Baby
11. She's Gone
12. I Can't Stop Loving You

Eddie Boyd, vocal, piano 
Peter Green, guitar 
John McVie, bass 
Mick Fleetwood, drums

If you want the REAL deal, then this is it. Be transported to a barrelhouse atmosphere as Peter Green hooks up again with Eddie Boyd, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie to give the deepest feeling to what true blues is all about. The solos are sensitive and full of so much feeling they make you ache. If you are tired of hearing posers and rockers trying to play the blues, then you will not be disappointed in this little known classic. There is not one single ho-hum on it. Just real classic genuine blues as it should be - and -here- played. Enjoy. ---amazon.com

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CD 1
Black Magic Woman
Albatross
Long Grey Mare
No Place To Go
Merry-Go-Round
Watch Out
My Baby's Good To Me
Looking For Somebody
Coming Home
Worlds In A Tangle
If You Be My Baby
Worried Dream
Trying So Hard To Forget
Need Your Love Tonight
I Loved Another Woman
Love That Burns

CD 2
Dust My Broom
Rollin' Man
Lazy Poker Blues
I Believe My Time Ain't Long
Shake Your Moneymaker
Cold Black Night
Got To Move
Stop Messin' Around
Rockin' Boogie
Talk With You
Doctor Brown
Jigsaw Puzzle Blues
Like Crying
World Keep On Turning
My Heart Beat Like A Hammer
Need Your Love So Bad

This double-CD set may well mislead listeners on two counts. On the one hand, there will be some neophyte listeners expecting to hear the silky pop/rock strains of the Lindsey Buckingham/Stevie Nicks-era Fleetwood Mac. This is, indeed, the original version of the band organized in 1967 by virtuoso blues guitarist/singer Peter Green, in which the latter shared the spotlight with fellow guitarist Jeremy Spencer, and they got no closer to pop/rock than renditions of Howlin' Wolf and B.B. King material. But even for listeners aware of the history of the band represented here, the "essential" will probably require some qualification -- Sony/BMG's license on Fleetwood Mac's early library only encompasses the two years of recordings (1967-1969) that they made for Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label; those recordings, especially the debut album and the singles "Black Magic Woman" and "The Green Manalishi," were hugely popular in England but were little more than cult items in America; most pointedly, they did not include the somewhat more diverse music that this version of the group cut for Warner Bros. in 1969-1971, at the tail-end of Green's tenure with the band. So even those listeners expecting the bluesy side of the group's history may be a little disappointed by the absence of anything here from that portion of their history that was widely distributed -- at Blue Horizon, the group tended to plays and record nothing but blues, which ultimately limited even Green's creativity.

Having said that, however, it should also be conceded that this set is probably the best overview of the group's Blue Horizon output that one is ever likely to find, containing virtually the entire debut album (a classic in any context) as well as the hit singles they generated, and filled out with the less-inventive but still worth hearing second album, all in state of the art sound. And unlike the six-CD Complete Blue Horizon Sessions set, this double-disc compilation contains only the finished, released masters, cleanly edited with no false starts and other digressions. So even if one already owns Blue Horizon box, this is a worthwhile acquisition. And the makers have also thrown in a handful of superb live tracks -- featuring Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy, and Otis Spann from the group's Blues Jam in Chicago album. The annotation is surprisingly thorough, though whoever designed this set should have gone up one font in the type-face, for the benefit of the older listeners to whom this release will primarily appeal. Would-be American purchasers should also note that, because Sony's license on this material is limited to Europe, this set is an import to the United States and, thus, tends to be a bit pricier than the conventional domestic issues in the label's "Essential" series. ---Bruce Eder, allmusic.com

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01. Drifting (Peter Green) - 3:22
02. Leaving Town Blues (Green) - 2:53
03. Watch Out (Green) - 3:22
04. A Fool No More (Green) - 4:34
05. Mean Old Fireman (Arthur Crudup) - 3:44
06. Can't Afford To Do It (James A.Williamson) - 2:00
07. Fleetwood Mac (Green) - 3:48
08. Worried Dream (B.B.King) - 5:22
09. Love That Woman (Lafayette Leake) - 2:26
10. Allow Me One More Show (Jeremy Spencer) - 2:58
11. First Train Home (Green) - 4:05
12. Ramblin' Pony No.2 (Green) - 2:55

Extra tracks on re-release (2004)
13. Watch Out [Take 1 Incomplete - Previously Unreleased] 
14. Something Inside Of Me 
15. Something Inside Of Me [Take 2/Previously Unreleased]
16. Something Inside Of Me [Take 3/Previously Unreleased]
17. One Sunny Day 
18. Without You 
19. Coming Your Way [Take 6/Previously Unreleased] 


- Peter Green – vocals, guitar, harmonica
- Jeremy Spencer – vocals, slide guitar
- John McVie – bass
- Mick Fleetwood – drums
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- Bob Brunning – bass (12)

The Original Fleetwood Mac is a compilation album by blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac, first released in 1971. It consists of various outtakes recorded by the first incarnation of the band in 1967-68. The album was re-released in 2004 with four extra tracks.

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01. Stop Messin' Round (Peter Green/Clifford Adams) – 2:18
02. I've Lost My Baby (Jeremy Spencer) – 4:14
03. Rollin' Man (Green/Adams) – 2:52
04. Dust My Broom (Elmore James/Robert Josea) – 2:50
05. Love That Burns (Green/Adams) – 5:00
06. Doctor Brown (J.T.Brown) – 3:43
07. Need Your Love Tonight (Spencer) – 3:26
08. If You Be My Baby (James/Josea) – 3:50
09. Evenin' Boogie (Spencer) – 2:39
10. Lazy Poker Blues (Green/Adams) – 2:33
11. Coming Home (Elmore James) – 2:37
12. Trying So Hard To Forget (Green/Adams) – 4:44

Personnel:
- Peter Green – vocals, guitar
- Jeremy Spencer – vocals, slide guitar, piano
- John McVie – bass
- Mick Fleetwood – drums
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- Christine Perfect – keyboards, female vocals
- Duster Bennett – harmonica
- Steve Gregory – alto saxophone
- Dave Howard – alto saxophone
- John Almond – tenor saxophone
- Roland Vaughan – tenor saxophone

Although it made number ten in the U.K., Fleetwood Mac's second album was a disappointment following their promising debut. So much of the record was routine blues that it could even be said that it represented something of a regression from the first LP, despite the enlistment of a horn section and pianist Christine Perfect (the future Christine McVie) to help on the sessions. In particular, the limits of Jeremy Spencer's potential for creative contribution were badly exposed, as the tracks that featured his songwriting and/or vocals were basic Elmore James covers or derivations. Peter Green, the band's major talent at this point, did not deliver original material on the level of the classic singles he would pen for the band in 1969, or even on the level of first-album standouts like "I Loved Another Woman." The best of the lot, perhaps, is "Love That Burns," with its mournful minor-key melody and sluggish, responsive horn lines. Mr. Wonderful, strangely, was not issued in the U.S., although about half the songs turned up on its stateside counterpart, English Rose, which was fleshed out with some standout late-'60s British singles and a few new tracks penned by Danny Kirwan (who joined the band after Mr. Wonderful was recorded). --- Richie Unterberger, allmusic.com

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Volume One
01. Watch Out
02. Ooh Baby
03. South Indiana (take 1)
04. South Indiana (take 2)
05. Last Night
06. Red Hot Jam
07. I'm Worried
08. I Held My Baby Last Night
09. Madison Blues
10. I Can't Hold Out
11. I Need Your Love
12. I Got The Blues

Volume Two
01. World's In A Tangle
02. Talk With You
03. Like It This Way
04. Someday Soon Baby
05. Hungry Country Girl
06. Black Jack Blues
07. Everyday I Have The Blues
08. Rockin' Boogie
09. Sugar Mama
10. Homework

Fleetwood Mac: 
Jeremy Spencer (vocals, guitar, slide guitar); 
Danny Kirwan (vocals, guitar); 
Peter Green (vocals, guitar); 
John McVie (bass guitar); 
Mick Fleetwood (drums).

Mentors: 
Otis Spann (vocals, piano); 
David Honeyboy Edwards (guitar); 
Buddy Guy (guitar); 
Walter "Shakey" Horton (harmonica); 
J. T. Brown (tenor saxophone); 
Willie Dixon (acoustic bass); 
S.P. Leary (drums).

This set, recorded at Chess Record's Ter-Mar complex in Chicago, pairs Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac with some of the Windy City's blues legends including Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, Buddy Guy, and David "Honeyboy" Edwards. Put together on short notice, and recorded in one day, the sessions have something of a ramshackle feel, but the energy of the performances transcends any shortcomings on this date. Dixon oversaw the proceedings, and can be heard during the between-song banter giving directions and chastising Walter "Shakey" Horton for missing his cues.

Since the Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac was so directly influenced by Chicago blues, the session acts as a kind of stylistic homecoming for the band. Bassist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood contribute driving rhythms while guitarists Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer lend both rhythms and the occasional lead. Green's stunningly fluid guitar work is at the fore, as usual. But the real treat is picking out the Chess players--Otis Spann's piano on "I Got the Blues," J.T. Brown's tenor sax on Elmore James's "I Can't Hold Out," or Guy and Edwards, who go toe-to-toe with Green on "Red Hot Jam," one of the session's indisputable highlights. ---allmusic.com

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