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Kiln House is the fourth album by British rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1970. This is the first of the post-Peter Green Fleetwood Mac albums, and their last album to feature Jeremy Spencer. Christine McVie was present at the recording sessions and contributed backing vocals and cover art, although she was not a full member of the band until shortly after the albums completion.
Spencers retro 50s homages and parodies dominate the album, but Danny Kirwans more sincere songs are almost equally prominent. Buddys Song is credited to Buddy Hollys mother, but is basically the song Peggy Sue Got Married with new lyrics listing a number of Buddy Holly song titles.
The Fleetwood Mac of 1970, before Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined the group, was primarily a British blues band. Fleetwood Mac continues today as one of the most enduring and successful rock bands in history.
None of this may be as intense as the music they cut with Peter Green running the show, but in its relaxed way Kiln House represents the same virtuoso blues-rock outfit having a little fun while making a record think of it as roughly Fleetwood Macs equivalent to the Rolling Stones Between the Buttons. -William Ruhlmann,
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