Bare Trees<\/i>, more than any other Fleetwood Mac album, is a Danny Kirwan creation. Kirwan takes responsibility for six of the 10 songs on the album, and such extended exposure shows Kirwan\u2019s strengths and accents his weaknesses. <\/p>\n
Kirwan has always been an excellent and underrated guitarist. His crisp, clear style and ability to write catchy melodies served Fleetwood Mac well over the years. Kirwan\u2019s main problem is that he is a weak lyricist, though it’s not enough to sink this effort.<\/p>\n
\u201cSunny Side Of Heaven\u201d shows Kirwan\u2019s guitar playing at his best. This instrumental soars into the upper ranges and produces a sound that few guitarists have been able to copy. Yet \u201cChild Of Mine\u201d and \u201cDanny\u2019s Chant\u201d show Kirwan\u2019s\u00a0 guitar-lyric tug of war. \u201cDanny\u2019s Chant\u201d has a weird vocal, which drives attention away from some of Kirwan\u2019s best Fleetwood Mac guitar playing. <\/p>\n
\u201cThoughts On A Grey Day\u201d probably is the best all around song on Bare Trees.<\/i> It finds an introspective Kirwan, which is a good counterpoint to the rest of the album\u2019s music. \u201cDust\u201d contains lyrics by poet Rupert Brooke and the title track, which opens the album, has the usual fine guitar but get bogged down with more poetry read by the elderly poet herself. <\/p>\n
Bob Welch adds two songs to Bare Trees.<\/i> There is an early incarnation of \u201cSentimental Lady\u201d which would undergo a more pop revision during his solo career, while \u201cThe Ghost\u201d is an interesting, if out of place, alternative rock-type song. <\/p>\n
Chistine McVie continues her musical evolution on Bare Trees. <\/i>\u201cHomeward Bound\u201d is a commendable rock effort that looks ahead to her brilliant work with the later Fleetwood Mac. \u201cSpare Me A Little Of Your Love\u201d is a generic pop love song and is one of her weaker efforts. <\/p>\n
Kirwan was fired shortly after Bare Trees<\/i> was released. His musical output and contributions to Fleetwood Mac\u00a0 have been largely forgotten over the years as the group has moved on to superstardom, and he deserves better than that. Sure, he was not a genius, but was an excellent musician who could produce very good and at times brilliant material. <\/p>\n
Bare Trees<\/i> shows Danny Kirwan as he was, Fleetwood Mac as it was and as such is still worth a listen now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":28918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5794],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-40421","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-fleetwood-mac","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40421"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}