Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham Reissue Their Album 'Buckingham Nicks' For The First Time

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham have once again joined forces to reissue their pre-Fleetwood Mac album, Buckingham Nicks, for the first time.

Buckingham Nicks has been long overdue for a re-release, having been out of print for nearly five decades. While it’s being released on vinyl once again, the album is also being made available on CD and will be available on streaming services—both for the first time—on Friday, 19 September.

Rumours surrounding Nicks and Buckingham reuniting surfaced last week.

A day after Mick Fleetwood posted a video of himself listening to the Buckingham Nicks song, Frozen Love, on his Instagram, Nicks and Buckingham shared lyric excerpts from the song, prompting speculation of a potential reunion between the pair.

On 17 July, Nicks posted a white image on social media with text in cursive font, which read: “And if you go forward…” Half an hour later, Buckingham shared the line’s second half: “I’ll meet you there.”

That’s the final line of Frozen Love, from the Buckingham Nicks album – the sole album unveiled by the pair before either of them joined Fleetwood Mac, which was released in September 1973.

The album was a commercial failure. However, Mick Fleetwood heard it and was impressed with what he heard. Fleetwood Mac needed a new guitarist, but Buckingham wouldn’t join without Nicks. Then came some uber-successful albums and divorces that played out in the public eye.

Buckingham Nicks opens with the Stevie Nicks-led song, Crying In The Night, which you can listen to now ahead of the album’s official re-release date.

The album contains ten remastered tracks and will be released on CD, digitally, multiple vinyl editions, and on streaming services. The forthcoming release has been sourced from the original analog master tapes, per Rhino.

The vinyl releases will arrive with new Rhino High Fidelity liner notes, written by veteran music journalist David Fricke.

Nicks recalled in the liner notes, “[We] knew what we had as a duo, two songwriters that sang really well together. And it was a very natural thing, from the beginning.”

Buckingham added, “But it stands up in a way you hope it would, by these two kids who were pretty young to be doing that work.”

You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.