Then Play On (Expanded Remastered Edition) Fleetwood Mac

• 1 Coming Your Way (Remastered) 03:45
• 2 Closing My Eyes (Remastered) 04:51
• 3 Fighting For Madge (Remastered) 02:42
• 4 When You Say (Remastered) 04:32
• 5 Show Biz Blues (Remastered) 03:51
• 6 Underway (Remastered) 03:05
• 7 One Sunny Day (Remastered) 03:11
• 8 Although The Sun Is Shining (Remastered) 02:25
• 9 Rattlesnake Shake (Remastered) 03:30
• 10 Without You (Remastered) 04:35
• 11 Searching For Madge (Remastered) 06:56
• 12 My Dream (Remastered) 03:31
• 13 Like Crying (Remastered) 02:25
• 14 Before The Beginning (Remastered) 03:27
• 15 Oh Well - Pt. 1 (Remastered) 03:24
• 16 Oh Well - Pt. 2 (Remastered) 05:39
• 17 The Green Manalishi (with The Two Prong Crown) (Remastered) 04:37
• 18 World In Harmony (Remastered) 03:26
• Total Runtime 01:09:52

Info for Then Play On (Expanded Remastered Edition)

Spanning the Mac’s early years between 1969 and 1972, the box set will collect Then Play On (1969), Kiln House (1970), Future Games (1971) and Bare Trees (1972), chronicling the band’s early blues and rock ‘n’ roll sound. The box set release will also be accompanied by an extended reissue of Then Play On, the band’s third studio album and their debut on Frank Sinatra’s Reprise Records.

Fleetwood Mac’s first record with guitarist and songwriter Danny Kirwan, Then Play On would also prove to be their last with the inimitable Peter Green, the band’s blistering front-man who went his own way following an ill-fated stay at a commune outside Munich in the Spring of 1970.

Likewise, the final album in the set would prove to be Kirwan’s last, with the band’s ever changing roster and fluctuating sound beginning to edge towards the pop and folk that would be defined by the arrival of American darlings Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham two years later.

"This Peter Green-led edition of the Mac isn't just an important transition between their initial blues-based incarnation and the mega-pop band they became, it's also their most vital, exciting version. The addition of Danny Kirwan as second guitarist and songwriter foreshadows not only the soft-rock terrain of "Bare Trees" and "Kiln House" with Christine Perfect-McVie, but also predicts Rumours. That only pertains to roughly half of the also excellent material here, though; the rest is quintessential Green. The immortal "Oh Well," with its hard-edged, thickly layered guitars and chamber-like sections, is perhaps the band's most enduring progressive composition. "Rattlesnake Shake" is another familiar number, a down-and-dirty, even-paced funk, with clean, wall-of-sound guitars. Choogling drums and Green's fiery improvisations power "Searching for Madge," perhaps Mac's most inspired work save "Green Manalishi," and leads into an unlikely symphonic interlude and the similar, lighter boogie "Fighting for Madge." A hot Afro-Cuban rhythm with beautiful guitars from Kirwan and Green on "Coming Your Way" not only defines the Mac's sound, but the rock aesthetic of the day. Of the songs with Kirwan's stamp on them, "Closing My Eyes" is a mysterious waltz love song; haunting guitars approach surf music on the instrumental "My Dream"; while "Although the Sun Is Shining" is the ultimate pre-Rumours number someone should revisit. Blues roots still crop up on the spatial, loose, Hendrix-tinged "Underway," the folky "Like Crying," and the final outcry of the ever-poignant "Show Biz Blues," with Green moaning "do you really give a damn for me?" Then Play On is a reminder of how pervasive and powerful Green's influence was on Mac's originality and individual stance beyond his involvement. Still highly recommended and a must-buy after all these years, it remains their magnum opus." (Michael G. Nastos, AMG)

Peter Green, vocals, guitar, harmonica, six string bass, percussion, cello on "Oh Well, Pt. 2"
Danny Kirwan, vocals, guitar
John McVie, bass
Mick Fleetwood, drums, percussion
Jeremy Spencer, piano on "Oh Well" (Pt. 2)
Christine Perfect, piano
Sandra Elsdon, recorders on "Oh Well (Pt 2)"

Produced by Fleetwood Mac

Digitally remastered

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