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sing with your Mother several times. What’s that like for you? Well for one thing, hello - this is Bonnie Bram- lett! But it really must be weirder for her, be- cause I came from her. And everybody tells we look just alike and I take that as a huge compli- ment. But she’s my hero, ya know? I love every chick singer but still my Mom rules. And so does my Dad.


Tell me just a little bit about your time with Fleetwood Mac - with Mick and the gang. Well, it’s funny you’d say Mick and the gang, because he and I were like peas and carrots. And I’ve known Billy (Burnette) all my life. I had a crush on him when I was a kid. He did a record a couple of years ago after having a quintuple bypass, bless his heart. But he still looks like a kid. Everybody thinks he’s had plas- tic surgery but he hasn’t had any. Our family has got it too, knock on wood, we stay young lookin’ until we wither away. But Billy is like that, and young at heart, and Mick is too. But basically my part in that was - after they did that “Don’t Stop Thinkin’ About Tomorrow” campaign for Bill Clinton, Stevie announced that she was leaving - she wanted to quit for a bit. So the guys still wanted to rock, because they just don’t know what to do without being on the road and playing, right? So everyone was calling me her replacement, and they were saying that in the media - and I was saying, “No I’m not. What are you thinking?” There’s no re- placing Stevie Nicks. That’s just stupid! And I could never find it in my heart to sing her sig- nature songs like “Rhiannon.” The guys wanted me to, but I thought that was like babysitting someone’s kid without asking. In America Ste- vie has such a cult following that we kind of stayed out of America for a while. In Europe and Australia and the Orient they just accepted me - it was all about Mick and John to them. And America is all about Stevie. Let’s call a duck a duck. But I totally enjoyed being in Fleetwood Mac, it was amazing. And Mick was


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just getting sober, so yay! Prior to this I was in his hiatus band called The Zoo, and during that time Mick was - whew! He never did no drugs around me and I appreciated it, but he was hy- poglycemic and really.... but with Fleetwood Mac he was sober and it was a great experience. I mean they are such good musicians! Nobody lays it down like Mick Fleetwood. He sits right behind the beat Buffalo. It’s like walking a tight wire and he’s your net. You can’t fall when Mick Fleetwood is playing with you.


Is it true you have a new album in the works? Yeah, I’ve got this double record ready to go, but I can’t find nobody to back me for it, so its just sitting there.


Really? Yeah. Don’t think I don’t cry about it, because I do. But I just don’t know exactly what avenues to take to get somebody to invest in me. I know what it is, Michael. Wanna know what it is?


What? It’s genre. They say I am too eclectic. I don’t care, I’m 47 years old and I need to do what’s in my heart. You wanna call it scattered, call it scattered, I don’t care. I don’t sit around one sided all day long. I know how to not cuss in front of old people and kids, and I know how to ride as hard and long as a man can on any bus, and I can drive it too. So I’ve got different things in my heart, and my fans ask me when are you gonna give us a record - I just need somebody else to see to it. I’m always doing somebody else’s record. I’m always making somebody else more fulfilled than myself, and I know that’s stupid, but I wish I knew how to get the music out to people. But I’m making them wait too long now, and it’s just because I can’t afford to do it. Everybody’s like, don’t tell peo- ple you can’t afford it, and I’m like “I don’t give a shit!” I’m not keeping secrets here, that’s why I’m a writer. But I don’t wanna be one that never shows their songs to nobody. (Laughs)


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