''Blue Again'' is a live album by the

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Blues Band, featuring

Rick Vito Richard Francis Vito (born October 13, 1949) is an American guitarist and singer. He was part of Fleetwood Mac between 1987 and 1991. Vito took over as lead guitarist after Lindsey Buckingham left the group. He is best known for his blues and ...

, released in 2008. It was recorded at The Sheldon Concert Hall in

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on 8 February 2008.

Background

The album represented a return to the

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music with which Fleetwood first found success, as a founding member of

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in the late 1960s. In the sleeve notes, he dedicated the album to his original Fleetwood Mac bandmates, Peter Green,

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and

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, and to the legacy of Fleetwood Mac. Around half the tracks on the album were Peter Green compositions. Fleetwood did not seek to copy the original Fleetwood Mac, rather to "pay it tribute by creating something both historically respectful yet new and invigorated."Jonathan Todd & James Soars, "Blue Again" sleevenotes, 2008. To this end, he recruited former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Rick Vito, who had played on the ''

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'' album in 1990, together with two relative unknowns, Lenny Castellanos and Mark Johnstone, to form the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band. The band subsequently undertook a tour of the

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, and later in 2008, Europe, including an appearance at the

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. The album was accompanied by a short bonus CD of studio recordings, including new versions of Green's "

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" and "The Supernatural", recorded in

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and

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Track listing

Live CD

#"Red Hot Gal" (

) – 5:34 #"Looking for Somebody" ( Peter Green) – 5:02 #"Fleetwood Boogie" (Vito) – 5:19 #"

Stop Messin' Round "Stop Messin' Round" is a song first recorded by English blues rock group Fleetwood Mac in 1968. It was written by the group's principal guitarist and singer Peter Green, with an additional credit for manager C.G. Adams. The song is an upbeat 12 ...

" ( Clifford Adams, Green) – 3:56 #"

Rattlesnake Shake "Rattlesnake Shake" is a song by British rock group Fleetwood Mac, written by guitarist Peter Green, which first appeared on the band's 1969 album ''Then Play On''. The track was one of the band's crowd-favorites in the late 1960s. Background D ...

" (Green) – 5:55 #"When We Do the Lucky Devil" (Vito) – 4:38 #"Love That Burns" (Green) – 6:03 #"Medley: Rollin' Man / Bayou Queen" (Green, Vito) – 5:06 #"

Black Magic Woman "Black Magic Woman" is a song written by British musician Peter Green, which first appeared as a single for his band Fleetwood Mac in 1968. Subsequently, the song appeared on the 1969 Fleetwood Mac compilation albums '' English Rose'' (US) and '' ...

" (Green) – 8:38 #"I Got a Hole in My Shoe" (Vito) – 4:10 #" Shake Your Moneymaker" (

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) – 7:49

Bonus CD

" (Green) tudio bonus track recorded in Hawaii– 3:15 #"Napili Nocturne" (Vito) – 3:38 #"The Supernatural" (Green) – 3:00 #"La Mer d'Amour" (Vito) – 4:20

Personnel

Live CD

– guitar, vocals *Lenny Castellanos – bass guitar, backing vocals *Mark Johnstone – keyboards, backing vocals *

– drums

Bonus CD

*Rick Vito – guitar, bass guitar, keyboards *Mick Fleetwood – drums *Produced by Mick Fleetwood and Rick Vito *Executive Producer – Mick Fleetwood, Jonathan Todd and William Reeve Pie *Bonus CD mixed by Rick Vito, Dennis Mays and Lynn Peterson

Charts

References

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