I just reread the insert of Madison Blues and was amazed how much is mentioning the Rumours whatever it was/is to come. Not any info about Purple Dancer so much or if either of the live recordings might predate the studio one. The obsession some have with Rumours! Anyway, I think 'Jet' is pretty much reaching as to the three vocalists setting the stage for Rumours idea. Like some Beatles fans who claim no artists wrote or were allowed to write their own songs before them (Chuck Berry, Bo Diddly, and Fats Domino sure as @#%&! did), some Mac fans are clouded by Buckingham & Nicks' dramatic rise to the heights of mythic immortality. Kiln House and Station Man/Purple Dancer specifically as a warm-up to a full west-coast harmony-pop sound? Nuh-uh! Some of it does remind me of the folk-rock around in England then, in drawing on older musical themes ala Music From Big Pink/The Band a bit. Fairport did some really neat versions of earlier Everlys songs along with the stuff from old English ballads/poems. Like I wrote earlier I wish there had been more of the Jeremy-Danny-Christine line-up and the Madison Blues set is a major reason for changing my mind on that.
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