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Nicks or McVie.....

Which singer do the fine people of Audiogon prefer? In the past, personally, I always preferred the sound of Stevie Nicks. It was in the early 2000’s that the show South Park lured my mind into thinking Stevie Nicks sounded like a billy goat. Having mostly cleared my mind of such nonsense, McVie is still my preferred set of female vocals. Fleetwood Mac is a fine institution regardless of who happens to be on lead vocals.
wturkey
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bdp24
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Just today I learned the musicians who appear on the 1973 Buckingham Nicks album include Jim Keltner and Ron Tutt on drums and Jerry Scheff on bass. Damn it, another album I must now acquire.
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wturkey OP
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The Buckingham Nicks album was unknown to me as well. Will definitely have to check it out. 
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By the way: Many years later Keltner, Tutt, and Scheff also appear on Elvis Costello's King Of America album, to my taste his best.
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ripleydog
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Love them both, disparate styles or no. Always interesting to me how such different talents integrate so smoothly into the 'sound' of the band. wonderful interplay between members. Do I have a preference? Christine McVie
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xcool
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If I have to pick one, it would be Christine McVie.   I really like her slightly raspy voice, and I love most of her writings in Fleetwood Mac.

Stevie Nicks has probably one of the most unique singing style/voice in rock.   It could be an acquired taste for some people, and I find it to be fatiguing at times.   But she's a fabulous backing vocalist on many of the Fleetwood Mac songs with McVie in the lead.

I'm not dismissing Stevie Nicks at all, and I do really like her voice.  I think having them both together is what made Fleetwood Mac such a successful band.

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