
ROCK ROYALTY Lindsey Buckingham gives a musical present with Gift of Screws
Kristen Buckingham
Credits
Release Date: Sep 16, 2008; Lead Performance: Lindsey Buckingham; Genre: Rock
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As a member of Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham is a rock potentate. As a solo
artist, he's an avant-garde aesthete, breaking down beguiling melodies
into sonic mushroom clouds. Gift of Screws finds him creating an insular world
of ghostly vocals and nervous guitars. On ''Time Precious Time,'' a
frenetically picked acoustic guitar ticks off the moments before an
emotional reckoning, while the jittery title track throws a cherry bomb
at Bush's war machine. Buckingham remains the master of type A chamber
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DOWNLOAD THIS: Listen to tracks from Gift of Screws on the musician's MySpace page
Posted Sep 12, 2008
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