The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

I bought this as a gift for my sister.For a particular track.It arrived promptly in good order and she liked it. Although she did not notice that her favourite song was on it.

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NOT the Fleetwood Mac everyone's familiar with - no Buckingham, no Nicks, no Christine Perfect McVie. This was Peter Green's band that he formed with Mick Fleetwood and John McVie (possibly blues-rock's best rhythm section). Story goes that his modest nature prevented his using his own name, so he named the band after the rhythm section to deflect attention from himself. They came to be known as Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac anyway, probably to distinguish it from subsequent versions of the band after he left.Whatever - this very neatly summarizes the early story and certainly captures their best moments. Second and third guitarists Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan appear on some tunes, and they became worthy successors (along with Bob Welch a little later) after Green left, when the band made a half-dozen very worthy albums prior to The Great Arrival (i.e Buckingham-Nicks) which of course completely changed their fortunes - commercially if not artistically.This album shows 'PG's FM' as a dynamite blues band (well, mostly blues), which were part of that magic British blues revival of the mid sixties: Mayall, Savoy Brown, Ten Years After, the Stones, the Animals to name a few. Songs like Black Magic Woman (yes, THAT Santana song - Green composed it and recorded it first), the wonderful instrumental Albatross, the Green Manalishi, Man of the World, Oh Well (Parts 1 &2 as a single track), Rattlesnake Shake, Dragonfly - they're all here, making this a comprehensive collection of the best of early Mac. There is another compilation - Pious Bird of Good Omen - often held up to be the definitive early 'best of' - I prefer this one, as there's more songs, and it covers the entire Green period better. Available at a bargain price. Not to be missed. 500 stars.

Mondialement connus pour leurs albums grand public, Fleetwood Mac ont traversé le temps en changeant de style plusieurs fois. La troupe d'avant le départ de Peter Green n'a rien à voir avec celle qui a produit Rumours, pas seulement parce que à part deux artistes tous les autres étaient nouveaux. Peter Green, Kirwan et Spencer avaient le feu sacré du blues blanc, ce qui manquera complètement par la suite. Eh oui, Black Magic Woman, ce n'est pas Carlos Santana qui l'a composée... Bref, un très bon album de studio, bien remastérisé, pour les admirateur de ce style et de ce musicien inclassable. Pour tous les autres, l’écoute de cet album peut être surprenante, même déconcertante.