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For all of the problems that Fleetwood Mac had, Stevie Nicks<\/a> was always going to be faithful to her band. <\/p>\n She was never going to be known as the schmuck that broke up the band when Rumours started to test everyone\u2019s patience, and even if there was room for her to grow as a solo artist, she wanted to keep the band as one of her top priorities all the time. But by the time that she broke free from the band, she did have a lot more bands that seemed to fit better with what she was trying to do.<\/p>\n Because when you look at Nicks\u2019s approach to music, she wasn\u2019t going to go along with Lindsey Buckingham for the rest of her life<\/a>. He was looking to make the perfect production every single time he made one of their records, but her songs were about something less tangible. Her tunes didn\u2019t need to make the most sense, but it only mattered whether the music felt right when she listened back to it.<\/p>\n And when she started off her solo career, Bella Donna needed to be right. If she was going to go solo, she needed to have a bit more muscle behind what she was doing. She had already fallen in love with everything Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had been doing<\/a>, and having them on her debut record was the perfect way of differentiating herself from the gigantic band behind her.<\/p>\n But when looking through her later records, she didn\u2019t want to be defined by everything that Petty was supposed to do. She had her own identity, and when looking through a lot of her later records, you could hear her trying out different spaces within her own voice. She wasn\u2019t afraid to work with some of the biggest names in music around that time, but when the country music boom started happening in the 1990s, she felt that The Chicks were one of the finest acts she had ever heard.<\/p>\n The biggest names in Nashville were already starting to become huge, but when looking through The Chicks\u2019 discography, they almost had a Crosby, Stills and Nash vibe<\/a> to the way that they sang together. Natalie Maines had a lot more on her mind than the typical puppy love that every other country singer was about, and Nicks felt that she could have fit right in if she had the chance to harmonise with them.<\/p>\n Compared to the harmonies that \u2018The Mac\u2019 had on all of their records, Nicks felt that there was a lot more room to grow with someone like Maines behind her, saying<\/a>, \u201cNatalie Maines is my favourite person to sing with, ever. I could happily be a part of The Chicks. Even though they\u2019re billed as country artists, they\u2019re very rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/strong><\/p>\n And considering what The Chicks had been known for, they were practically Nicks\u2019s musical daughters anyway. \u2018Wide Open Spaces\u2019 and \u2018Cowboy Take Me Away\u2019 could have easily been made with a few Nicks touches back in the day, and given their pitch-perfect version of \u2018Landslide\u2019, they were poised to be one of the biggest names in music history had some narrow-minded idiots not tried to silence them for having the gall to actually have an opinion in America.<\/p>\n That kind of treatment wasn\u2019t what they deserved by any means, but a song like \u2018I\u2019m Not Ready to Make Nice\u2019 is even further proof that they belonged in the same category as Nicks. They were willing to do anything and everything to become the biggest names in music, and nothing was going to stop them from making the music that they wanted to make. They were still country, but their mentality was rock and roll as all hell.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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