Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
ASIN: B000002KOO
Track Listing:
1. Coming Your Way
2. Closing My Eyes
3. Show-Biz Blues
4. My Dream
5. Underway
6. Oh Well
7. Although The Sun Is Shining
8. Rattlesnake Shake
9. Searching For Madge
10. Fighting For Madge
11. When You Say
12. LIke Crying
13. Before The Beginning
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential recording
Before they set sail for California and a new life as consummate pop
songsmiths, Fleetwood Mac were pedigreed British blues rockers with
roots in Britain's seminal John Mayall's Blues Breakers and their
hearts orbiting Chicago and the Mississippi Delta. One of the few
surviving albums from that ill-fated, earlier Mac, Then Play On
captures them at a potent turning point: the original two-guitar
quartet, with founder Peter Green's sinuous leads complemented by
Jeremy Spencer's shimmering slide guitar, had been augmented by
third guitarist Danny Kirwan, a Green protégé. Buttressed by Mick
Fleetwood's muscular yet restrained drumming and John McVie's
steady-as-a-heartbeat bass lines, this edition of the band reveled
in moody, compelling guitar showpieces that savor texture and line
over sheer speed or volume. Accordingly, the lyrics don't benefit
from close study, but the guitars surely do--and when the quintet
launches into the best-remembered track here, the classic "Oh, Well"
(which reunites the separate electric and acoustic sections
originally released as two sides of a single), it's understandable
that Green, in his day, was mentioned comfortably in the same breath
with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. --Sam Sutherland
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