“Time” is an album by British/American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1995. This album featured a unique line-up for the band featuring the addition of former Traffic guitarist Dave Mason and country vocalist Bekka Bramlett, daughter of Delaney and Bonnie, to the line-up. It is the only Fleetwood Mac album since 1974 to feature neither Stevie Nicks nor Lindsey Buckingham as full band members. The band undertook a worldwide tour in support of the album from July to the end of December 1994, and again from April to September 1995.
Within a year this line-up had collapsed with Mason, Bramlett and Billy Burnette all leaving the band, but Bramlett and Burnette recorded the Bekka & Billy album together in 1997, the same year Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks rejoined Fleetwood Mac.
Recorded at perhaps the most confusing period of FM history, Time is a curiousity. There is very little here that sounds like "classic" Fleetwood Mac, yet the album is very listenable and a generally good effort. What may not be known is that by the time this album was put together, Christine McVie had followed Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks... out of the group. Her 5 songs are stellar and her vocals never better but clearly they were recorded apart from the rest of the album (probably earlier) and do not contain Burnette, Mason, or Bramlett on them. Still getting half a Christine solo album is reason enough to buy this CD. The rest of the songs appear to have been recorded without C. McVie, with the exception of piano and backing vocals on "Nothing Without You". Burnette has some worthy contributions but does not have much material displayed. His interaction with Bramlett is great. Bramlett is a fair singer and seems to be an interpreter only. Dave Mason has only 2 songs on the album, "Blow by Blow" is harsha and dry, while the other one is very groovy. Fleetwood and McVie shine througout and tie the album together slightly. But overall this is a CD of tracks tossed together. On the upside the production and recording is much cleaner than Tango or Behind the Mask.
Tracklisting:
01 - "Talkin' to My Heart" (Billy Burnette, Deborah Allen, Rafe VanHoy) – 4:54
02 - "Hollywood (Some Other Kind of Town)" (C. McVie, E. Quintela) – 5:43
03 - "Blow by Blow" (Dave Mason, John Cesario, Mark Holden) – 4:24
04 - "Winds of Change" (Kit Hain) – 4:26
05 - "I Do" (McVie, Quintela) – 4:25
06 - "Nothing Without You" (Delaney & Bekka Bramlett, D. Gilmore) – 3:06
07 - "Dreamin' the Dream" (B. Bramlett, Burnette) – 3:43
08 - "Sooner or Later" (McVie, Quintela) – 5:40
09 - "I Wonder Why" (Dave Mason, Frankie Previte, Tom Fuler) – 4:28
10 - "Nights in Estoril" (McVie, Quintela) – 4:45
11 - "I Got It in for You" (Burnette, Deborah Allen) – 4:08
12 - "All Over Again" (McVie, Quintela) – 3:32
13 - "These Strange Times" (Mick Fleetwood, Ray Kennedy) – 7:04
Fleetwood Mac
Bekka Bramlett – vocals
Dave Mason – guitars, vocals
Billy Burnette – guitars, vocals
Christine McVie – keyboards, vocals
John McVie – bass
Mick Fleetwood – percussion, drums; vocals & guitars on track 13
Additional personnel
Michael Thompson – guitars on tracks 2, 5, 7, 10 & 12
Steve Thoma – keyboards on tracks 3, 4 & 9
Lindsey Buckingham – backing vocals on track 6
Fred Tackett – trumpet on track 8
John Jones – keyboards on track 13
Lucy Fleetwood – backing vocals on track 13
Production
Producers: Fleetwood Mac & Richard Dashut; John Jones & Ray Kennedy (track 13)
Additional Engineers: Alan Sanderson, Charlie Brocco, Allen Sides, Jimmy Hotz (track 13), David Eike, Tom Nellen, Richard Huredia, Dave Shiffman
Recording and Mixing: Ken Allardyce; John Jones (track 13)
Recorded and Mixed at Ocean Way Recording, Hollywood
Additional Recording at Sunset Sound, Hollywood
Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Precision Mastering, assisted by Don Tyler
Cover Concept by Mick Fleetwood
Art Direction and Design by Gabrielle Raumberger and Frank Chi
Photography by Lance Staedler, Bonnie & Dale McRaven, John McVie Family Arch
Released: October 10, 1995
Genre: Rock
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Producer: Fleetwood Mac, Richard Dashut
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