OK, skip the awful title and possibly, too, the cover, but as tributes go, Ian McNabb’s Fleetwood McNabb is pretty solid. McNabb is arguably better known, in America anyway, as the prime force behind the Icicle Works, still sometimes touring under the name, give or take the availability of various ex-members. Aside and away from that, he has an enduring solo career with dozens of releases. We’ve seen him here before, his covers set of 2018, Respectfully Yours, getting a Covers Classic polish. Always, it seems, a fan of the Mac, through their myriad shape-shifts, Fleetwood McNabb is a tad different from many tributes to the band, in that it starts in the ’60s British Blues Boom and travels all the way to almost the last extant incarnation. So South London to Malibu, and all points between. Including the bits few recall or even know about.
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