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The last Fleetwood Mac album to feature Peter Green is an interesting bluesy jazzy mix. Of the former there's the traditional "Show-Biz Blues"**** the appropriately badass "Rattlesnake Shake"**** (which is followed by 2 instrumental jams), and country-blues mix "Like Crying" (woman's got the blues). "Coming Your Way"**** is a subtler Santana. Of the ballads, the minimalist but dramatic "Closing My Eyes" draws from classical guitar, "Although The Sun Is Shining" from Beatlesque folk. "My Dream" and "Underway" are surprisingly spacey jazz instrumentals, the former with some nice vibrato on that lead guitar. The album also features perhaps the best-known track of the early era, the heavy, riff-driven "Oh Well"*****, with a dramatic classical guitar coda left off the single version. Not the expert on Fleetwood Mac, but the variety of styles helps keep this one from the vault interesting, and even the silly la la la's on "When You Say" are rolled out in an ambitious harmony.
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