In a rare, exclusive interview, Stevie Nicks relives her rollercoaster ride in rock’n’roll: Fleetwood Mac, solo stardom, lost comrades, Lindsey, and Barbie! Also in the issue: Tom Waits becomes Tom Waits; Ian Gillan tells all; Steve Albini and Duane Eddy remembered; War fall out and fall in; Lead Belly: the truth! And: Nathaniel Rateliff; Linda Thompson; The Chameleons; Nancy Sinatra; Squeeze; Ani DiFranco; Sun Ra; Graham Gouldman and Steve Marriott Vs A.I.!
THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is Second Hand News: The Songs Of Stevie Nicks & Fleetwood Mac. Featuring Stevie Nicks, Primal Scream, The Twilight Singers, Vetiver, Dennis Brown, The Decemberists, Jonathan Wilson, Melvins and more!
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CONTENTS MOJO 369
COVER STORY: STEVIE NICKS The ultimate rock diva on Fleetwood Mac fame, solo stardom, the “lost years” of addiction, and owning the stage, still, at 76. Plus! Mick Fleetwood offers a hymn to her… and a eulogy for his storied band?
STEVE ALBINI Gone before his time: the Big Black/Shellac mainman, uncompromising ‘recorder’ of bands, and one of the crucial shaping forces of modern alternative rock.
TOM WAITS How the beatnik bard found himself, on the road between Tijuana, San Diego and Los Angeles, and became ‘Tom Waits’ on The Heart Of Saturday Night.
WAR As a splinter of the funk juggernaut prepare to play Chaka Khan’s Meltdown festival, MOJO corrals all the factions. “We were raw and real,” they tell Lois Wilson.
IAN GILLAN From Hounslow to the Lake Geneva shoreline, Deep Purple’s air raid siren recounts a hard rock life. “You’ve got to get outside of a formula,” he tells Mark Blake.
LEAD BELLY From a new book exploding the myths around folk and blues trailblazer Huddie Ledbetter, 90 years since the landmark show that revealed him to the world.
NATHANIEL RATELIFF The testifying frontman and soul-scouring songwriter on his long, slow slog from penury to the playoffs, and the key role of the much-missed Richard Swift.
THE CHAMELEONS Chiming guitars? Check. Tormented singer? Check. Ornery attitude to ‘the biz’? Check. The unlikely renaissance of the Great Lost Overcoat Band of the ’80s.
REVIEWED Johnny Cash / John Lennon / Linda Thompson / Shellac / Marc Almond / Dirty Three / Neil Young / Beak> / Aaron Frazer / Frank Zappa / Cigarettes After Sex / Derrick Harriott / Tom Verlaine / Lankum / Kasabian / Beachwood Sparks / Cassandra Jenkins / Pat Metheny / Jake Xerxes Fussell / Cluster / Madeleine Peyroux / James Vincent McMorrow / Redd Kross / Actress / Pond / Diamanda Galas / Guy Clark
PLUS Duane Eddy twangs no more / A.I. Steve Marriott and its discontents / Ani DiFranco remains defiant / Squeeze in the studio / Louis Armstrong unearthed / Cindy Lee and Mabe Fratti are Rising / Ron Sexmith’s Kinks kink / How To Buy… Sun Ra! / Fare thee well, Dennis Thompson, David Sanborn, Frank Ifield… / Win crazy-good in-ear headphones / Graham Gouldman confesses / Geoff Britton: Wings’ karate kid / And All Back To Nancy Sinatra’s!