Originally Posted by elle (Post 1126728)

please don't pour cold water on my [finally!] optimistic outlook.:laugh: i want that album out!

yeah Stevie and Christine both don't have families they need to spend the holiday with, but Dave Stewart has, and relatively young kids if i remember correctly. would he really go to Nashville (where people go to record music ;)) for a weekend with these women if it wasn't work related? he just came back from working on another project in Jamaica. i choose to think this is great news, and why SN was not really much around with FM in the studio (although i really don't understand that attitude if they are really a band - i guess they are really more just a business than a band these days, at least as far as SN is concerned :shrug:) - she was waiting for DS to be free so he can help her out. and i think the fact Christine is there with them has to be good news since she can help Dave make those songs more FM/band sounding.

Originally Posted by michelej1 (Post 1126744)

I don't think his 80s work is in conflict with Stevie's own style. For instance, there's nothing about "Here Comes the Rain Again" and Annie's (sometimes sinister) voice and phrasing that would make me think this man shouldn't work with Stevie and couldn't bring something charismatic out of her. Christine is a different story, though.

Michele

Originally Posted by WildHearted (Post 1126745)

What does Martina McBride have to do with it?

Originally Posted by michelej1 (Post 1126732)

Someone had Christine write GYOW on that autograph. That's funny. I'm sure Lindsey has been asked to write Don't Stop on things before.



I never thought they wouldn't get along. Just worried about what him working on her songs would sound like.

At any rate, I don't think that Stevie and Christine would be hanging out together socially in Nashville. Los Angeles, maybe, but not Nashville.

Michele

Originally Posted by MikeVielhaber (Post 1126746)

But it wouldn't make sense having Waddy on guitar.But it wouldn't make sense having Waddy on guitar. You don't have someone else on a guitar on a FM record.

Also there are 5 months until the tour starts. They aren't just going to slip a new album in right before it starts. They did it last year with the EP but we knew many months in advance that they planned to get some songs out in time for the tour. With a full album I think we'd already know about it if they were trying to get an album out before the tour and they probably would've waited to use the tour to promote their new album. As it is it's just a reunion tour.

Originally Posted by Petercorbasson (Post 1126757)

Waddy wouldn't be a stranger to a Mac record... he did play rhythm guitar on "Sugar Daddy" after all!

Originally Posted by BlueDenimLamp (Post 1126755)

Just because Waddy is there it doesn't mean he's going to be on the new record...

"You don't have someone else on a guitar on a FM record"

Here's another possibility: Stevie may finally be working on her next solo project, including songs she wrote after losing her mother. There was talk a couple years ago that she was interested in working on a country-inspired CD. If you consider her recent experience with Lady A, combined with a trip to Nashville with her favorite producer (Dave Stewart), Waddy and Christine, maybe that's what they're working on?

Originally Posted by BlueDenimLamp (Post 1126759)

Some how I missed that...Is it in the credits?...I know Waddy was a little upset Mick didn't ask him to join FM in addition to asking Stevie & Lindsey...

Originally Posted by Petercorbasson (Post 1126764)

According to Allmusic and Wikipedia he did... I don't have my vinyl copy on hand to check for sure though.