Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham have revealed that the rumours — er, rumors — are true: They are reissuing their elusive 1973 album, “Buckingham Nicks,” on streaming and other formats after decades of it being hard to find.
The duo recorded the album together before joining Christine and John McVie and Mick Fleetwood in the legendary group Fleetwood Mac. Commercially unsuccessful when it first came out, it’s been unavailable to find for 30-plus years until now.
The record label Rhino announced in a news release on July 23 that the album “has been sourced from the original analog master tapes for its long-awaited return to vinyl, as well as hi-res digital files for its CD and digital release,” which will be on Sept. 19.
The single “Crying in the Night” is available to hear digitally on July 23 ahead of the full album’s release in September, according to Rhino.
The album will also be sold on compact disc, and a vinyl version will be limited to 5,000 copies, according to Rhino. The label is also releasing a special version featuring two replica 7-inch singles of the original single mixes of “Crying In The Night” and “Stephanie,” and “Don’t Let Me Down Again” and “Races Are Run,” that will be limited to 2,000 copies, according to Rhino.
Nicks, 77, and Buckingham, 75, had been teasing the reissue of their album with cryptic messages on Instagram. On July 17, Nicks posted a graphic of the line “And if you go forward…” which is a lyric from the song “Frozen Love” on the “Buckingham Nicks” album.
On the same day, Buckingham posted the other half of the “Frozen Love” lyric on Instagram with a graphic of “I’ll meet you there.”
A billboard also appeared on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles with an image of the “Buckingham Nicks” album cover and the date Sept. 19.
The 10-track album features folk-rock songs like “Crystal” and California-inflected tunes like “Don’t Let Me Down Again.”
The reissue marks the latest chapter in an often-tempestuous relationship between Nicks and Buckingham. The two dated in the early 1970s and then famously broke up while recording the legendary album “Rumours” with Fleetwood Mac, which became known for its interband romantic relationships almost as much as its music.
The two then each left Fleetwood Mac within a four-year span between 1987 and 1991 before reuniting for a tour later in the 1990s. Buckingham was then kicked out of the band in 2018 following a backstage incident.
Following Buckingham’s departure, he and Nicks didn’t speak again until a celebration of life for former Fleetwood Mac bandmate Christine McVie, who died in 2022 at 79.
“The only time I’ve spoken to Lindsey was there, for about three minutes,” Nicks told Rolling Stone in October 2024.
A thaw between the two appeared to be happening when Nicks and Buckingham recently began following each other on Instagram. Now they have reissued their long-lost album.
“(We) knew what we had as a duo, two songwriters that sang really well together. And it was a very natural thing, from the beginning,” Nicks recalls in the Rhino High Fidelity liner notes of the “Buckingham Nicks” reissue, according to the news release.
The track listing for the album is as follows:
Side One
1. “Crying In The Night”
2. “Stephanie”
3. “Without A Leg To Stand On”
4. “Crystal”
5. “Long Distance Winner”
Side Two
1. “Don’t Let Me Down Again”
2. “Django”
3. “Races Are Run”
4. “Lola (My Love)”
5. “Frozen Love”
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