Album Review #126: Out Of The Cradle (Lindsey Buckingham)

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
OUT OF THE CRADLE
1992-REPRISE
Produced By LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM & RICHARD DASHUT

1. Instrumental Introduction To:
2. Don't Look Down
3. Wrong
4. Countdown
5. All My Sorrows
6. Soul Drifter
7. Instrumental Introduction To:
8. This Is The Time
9. You Do Or You Don't
10. Street Of Dreams
11. Spoken Introduction To:
12. Surrender The Rain
13. Doing What I Can
14. Turn It On
15. This Nearly Was Mine
16. Say We'll Meet Again

Lindsey Buckingham's third solo album, and his first after leaving Fleetwood Mac, is loaded with songs that would've made the Mac hitmakers again in the 90's. Recorded mostly as just a trio, the album is layered and perfected, as polished as it could be. People forget just how good he is as a guitarist...it's all over the wall here. His playing soars, using inventive sounds on some tracks and stunning acoustic work on others. "Wrong" and "Countdown" should have been hits. This is catchy and professional stuff. A very underrated album.

Buckingham hadn't done a solo album in 8 years, and it would be another 14 years before his next. He's always worth listening to, and Out Of The Cradle is as good as he gets.

This is album #126 in an ongoing series.