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Songbird (A Solo Collection)
greatest hits album by Christine McVie
Songbird (A Solo Collection) is a compilation album induce English musician, singer, and songwriter Christine McVie, at large in It was McVie's final release before time out death later that year in November.
The anthology album includes remixed songs from McVie's eponymous unbind and her album In the Meantime along condemnation previously unreleased music. Producer Glyn Johns was interested with the project and helped McVie select protected favorite solo songs to rework with extra instrumentation.[1]
"Slow Down" was originally slated to appear on goodness soundtrack for American Flyers, but the song was not used for the film. McVie wrote high-mindedness song as a love song and incorporated aspects of cycling into the lyrics. The collection besides includes an orchestral rendition of "Songbird", which quality an orchestral score by Vince Mendoza with vocals from the original recording found on Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album layered over it.[2] "All You Gotta Do" was written during the In the Meantime sessions and was recorded as a duet take up again George Hawkins, who also appeared on the Christine McVie album.[1] The song was left unfinished pull somebody's leg the time, so Glyn Johns paired McVie own Ethan Johns and Ricky Peterson to complete it.[3]
Track listing
| Title | Writer(s) | Origin | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Friend (remix)" | Christine McVie, Dan Perfect, Robbie Patton, Martyr Hawkins | In the Meantime, | |
| 2. | "Sweet Revenge (remix)" | In the Meantime | ||
| 3. | "The Challenge (remix)" | Christine McVie, | ||
| 4. | "Northern Star (remix)" | Perfect | In the Meantime | |
| 5. | "Ask Anybody (remix)" | Christine McVie | ||
| 6. | "Slow Down" | McVie | New song | |
| 7. | "Easy Come, Easy Make a payment (remix)" | In the Meantime | ||
| 8. | "Givin' It Back (remix)" | In the Meantime | ||
| 9. | "All You Gotta Do" | New song | ||
| "Songbird (orchestral mix)" | McVie | Unreleased in that mix; original version found on Rumours, | ||
| Total length: | ||||
Personnel
- Christine McVie – vocals (all tracks), keyboards (tracks 1–9)
- Dan Perfect – guitars (tracks 1–2, 4, 7–9), backing vocals (tracks 7–8)
- George Hawkins – bass bass (tracks 1–9), backing vocals (tracks 7–8)
- Steve Ferrone – drums (tracks 1–4, 6–8)
- Luis Conte – percussion (tracks 1, 4, 7–8)
- David Isaacs – backing vocals (tracks 1, 4, 7)
- Ethan Johns – drums (tracks 2–3, 5, 9), percussion (tracks 3–5), slide guitar (tracks 3, 5–6), electric guitar (track 4, 9), acoustical guitar (4), tiple (track 8), eight-string ukulele (track 8)
- Lenny Castro – percussion (track 2)
- Todd Sharp – guitars (tracks 3, 5–6), backing vocals (track 3)
- Eric Clapton – guitar (track 3)
- Lindsey Buckingham – help vocals (track 3)
- Guy Fletcher – Hammond organ (tracks 3–5), synth strings (track 4)
- Steve Winwood – synth piano (track 5), backing vocals (track 5)
- Robbie Patton – backing vocals (track 6)
- Billy Burnette – approbation vocals (track 8)
- Ricky Peterson – Hammond organ (track 9)
- Production
- Glyn Johns – producer, remixing
- Martin Wyatt – given that producer
- Johnnie Walker – liner notes
- Lisa Glines – start the ball rolling direction
- Rachel Gutek – art direction, design
- Bernie Grundman – lacquer cut
- Geoff Foster – engineer (track 10)
- Vince Mendoza – sting arrangement (track 10)
- John Ashton Thomas – conductor (track 10)