Lindsey Buckingham intended to put out a solo album years ago, but the Fleetwood Mac shows up. “They said, ‘Let’s do a studio album!’” Buckingham explains. Those songs lead to 2003’s Say You Will. The new solo album Gift of Screws ironically came from a period where Buckingham was less focused on music and more centered on his family. Click below for more on Buckingham, including what poet inspired the title of his new album and the status is of the Sheryl Crow/Fleetwood Mac collaboration.

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