Time (Fleetwood Mac album)

Time is the 16th studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1995. This album features 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). Lindsey Buckingham, who had left Fleetwood Mac in 1987, makes an appearance as a backing vocalist on one track, but Time is the first and only Fleetwood Mac album since 1974's Heroes Are Hard to Find not to feature any contribution from Stevie Nicks. The album also featured drummer Mick Fleetwood's first lead vocal on the seven-minute "These Strange Times", produced by Duran Duran producer John Jones, and written with Beach Boys co-writer Ray Kennedy. The band did not tour following the album's release in October 1995, but had (without Christine McVie) toured from July to December 1994, and again from April to September 1995.

Within a year this band line-up had split, with Mason, Bramlett and Billy Burnette all leaving the band. Bramlett and Burnette recorded the Bekka & Billy album together in 1997, the same year Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks rejoined Fleetwood Mac.

The album peaked at No. 47 in the UK, but failed to chart on the US Billboard Top 200 (the band's first album to do so).

Personnel

 * Fleetwood Mac
 * Bekka Bramlett – vocals
 * Dave Mason – guitars, vocals
 * Billy Burnette – guitars, vocals
 * Christine McVie – keyboards, vocals
 * John McVie – bass guitar
 * Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion; vocals and guitars on track 13


 * Additional musicians
 * Michael Thompson – guitars on tracks 2, 5, 8, 10 and 12
 * Steve Thoma – keyboards on tracks 3, 4 and 9
 * Lindsey Buckingham – backing vocals on track 6
 * Fred Tackett – trumpet on track 8
 * John Jones – keyboards, bass, guitar on track 13
 * Lucy Fleetwood – backing vocals on track 13


 * Production
 * Producers: Fleetwood Mac and Richard Dashut; John Jones and Ray Kennedy (track 13)
 * Additional engineers: Alan Sanderson, Charlie Brocco, Allen Sides, John Jones, 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 Recorders, 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 Archives

Charts

 * Singles chart