Kirwan's "Dust" combines a gentle, gliding melody with resigned, melancholy lyrics and his most memorable chorus. By comparison, Kirwan and Welch's best songs are all-time career highlights. Impressively, all three writers get off a small masterpiece on side two McVie's "Spare Me a Little of Your Love" sounds like a dry run for the string of hits she would start writing with 1975's Fleetwood Mac, and it's her first really good pop song. This is the one Fleetwood Mac album on which singer/guitarist Danny Kirwan is the dominant figure, writing five songs to Christine McVie and Bob Welch's two apiece. Low-key but less narcoleptically mellow than 1971's sleepy Future Games, Bare Trees is a singer/songwriter album in the traditional early-'70s style, backed up with just enough musical muscle to keep from sounding like weedy soft rock in the manner of Bread or Cat Stevens. Like Lindsey, Danny had the chops with layering techniques, and the ability to know what's right and wrong in the studio." The final track on the album, "Thoughts on a Grey Day", is a poem read by an elderly woman, Mrs Scarrott, who lived near the band's communal home in southern England.Īrguably the first consistently strong album Fleetwood Mac ever recorded - all the way back into the Peter Green/Jeremy Spencer era, the Mac's albums had previously consisted of individual moments of brilliance in a sea of uninspired filler - 1972's Bare Trees is also the album where the band finally defines its post-blues musical personality. Fleetwood was particularly impressed with Kirwan's contributions to the album. "Trinity", another Kirwan song, was an outtake from the album that was subsequently released in 1992 on the 25 Years – The Chain box set. "Danny's Chant" features the use of wah-wah guitars, while the lyrics for Kirwan's composition "Dust" were taken from a poem by Rupert Brooke. His "Sunny Side of Heaven" was an instrumental, which, at the time, was mixed in with some radio station sign-offs. Five of the ten tracks were penned by Kirwan.
The latter track was also covered by Johnny Rivers on his studio album New Lovers and Old Friends in 1975, the same year that Fleetwood Mac broke through in the United States with their self-titled album. "Spare Me a Little of Your Love" became a staple of the band's live act from 1972–1977. The album features the original version of "Sentimental Lady", which was later re-recorded by its composer Bob Welch (with Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, and Lindsey Buckingham backing him) for his solo album French Kiss. In the wake of the band's success in the mid-1970s, Bare Trees peaked at #70 and achieved Gold status in 1976 and certified platinum in 1988 for selling over a million copies. This is their last album to feature Danny Kirwan, who was fired during the album's supporting tour.
"Bare Trees" is the sixth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in March 1972. Originally Mastered By – Bobil (tracks: 1 to 4), Rasputin (tracks: 5 to 10) Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
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