01	This Is The Rock						02:50
	02	Station Man						05:51
	03	Blood On The Floor						02:47
	04	Hi Ho Silver						03:08
	05	Jewel Eyed Judy						03:19
	06	Buddy's Song						02:12
	07	Earl Gray						04:04
	08	One Together						03:27
	09	Tell Me All The Things You Do						04:15
	10	Mission Bell						02:34
	11	Child Of Mine						05:29
	12	The Ghost						04:02
	13	Homeward Bound						03:24
	14	Sunny Side Of Heaven						03:10
	15	Bare Trees						05:04
	16	Sentimental Lady						04:35
	17	Danny's Chant						03:18
	18	Spare Me A Little Of Your Love						03:47
	19	Dust						02:41
	20	Thought On A Grey Day						01:45

Kiln House
Date of Release Sep 1970


Fleetwood Mac's first album after the departure of their nominal leader, Peter Green, finds the remaining members, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Jeremy Spencer, and Danny Kirwan (plus McVie's wife, Christine) trying to maintain the band's guitar-heavy, blues-rock approach, with the burden falling on Spencer and Kirwan. They don't embarrass themselves, but none of this is of the caliber of Green's work. - William Ruhlmann

1. This Is the Rock - 2:45
2. Station Man - 5:49
3. Blood on the Floor - 2:44
4. Hi Ho Silver - 3:05
5. Jewel Eyed Judy - 3:17
6. Buddy's Song (Holly) - 2:08
7. Earl Gray - 4:01
8. One Together - 3:23
9. Tell Me All the Things You Do - 4:10
10. Mission Bell - 2:32


Big Walter Horton - Harmonica
Fleetwood Mac - Producer
Mick Fleetwood - Drums
Danny Kirwan - Guitar, Vocals
Christine McVie - Keyboards, Vocals
Jeremy Spencer - Guitar, Piano, Vocals
John McVie - Bass
Martin Birch - Engineer
Dinky Dawson - Sound Consultant

1987 CD Reprise 2-6408
1970 LP Reprise RS-6408
1987 CS Reprise M5-6408



Bare Trees
Date of Release Mar 1972


Arguably 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. 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. This is the one Fleetwood Mac album on which singer/guitarist Danny Kirwan is the dominant figure, writing five songs to Chistine McVie and Bob Welch's two apiece. 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. By comparison, Kirwan and Welch's best songs are all-time career highlights. Kirwan's "Dust" combines a gentle, gliding melody with resigned, melancholy lyrics and his most memorable chorus. Welch's "Sentimental Lady" was, of course, his first solo hit in its 1977 re-recorded version, but this original take is far superior, and one of the great lost pop songs of the early '70s. Outfitted with a terrific vocal melody, hooks galore, and an impressive tremolo guitar solo, "Sentimental Lady" is perhaps a little trite lyrically, but it's a heartfelt and lovable tune regardless, and the best thing Fleetwood Mac did in the years between "Albatross" and "Over My Head." The rest of the album is less magical, but the instrumental "Sunny Side of Heaven" and the downright funky "Danny's Chant" are impressive in their use of atmospheric arrangements and so point toward the subtle but effective production choices that would make Fleetwood Mac and Rumours among the most listenable albums of their time. Bare Trees isn't in that league, but it shows that after five years of false starts and failed experiments, Fleetwood Mac were finally on their way. - Stewart Mason

1. Child of Mine (Kirwan) - 5:09
2. The Ghost (Welch) - 3:58
3. Homeward Bound (McVie) - 3:20
4. Sunny Side of Heaven (Kirwan) - 3:10
5. Bare Trees (Kirwan) - 5:02
6. Sentimental Lady (Welch) - 4:35
7. Danny's Chant (Kirwan) - 3:16
8. Spare Me a Little of Your Love (McVie) - 3:44
9. Dust (Kirwan) - 2:41
10. Thoughts on a Grey Day (Mrs. Scarrot) - 2:03


Fleetwood Mac - Producer
Bob Welch - Guitar, Vocals
Mick Fleetwood - Drums
Danny Kirwan - Guitar, Vocals
Christine McVie - Keyboards, Vocals
Jeremy Spencer - Guitar, Vocals
John McVie - Bass, Photography, Cover Photo
Martin Birch - Engineer
Peter Green - Guitar
Lee Herschberg - Remastering
Bob Hughes - Engineer, Remixing

1987 CD Reprise 2-2278
1972 LP Reprise 2080
CD Reprise 2278
1987 CS Reprise M5-2278











Kiln House

Format : Domestic CD
Released : 18 Sep 1970
Label : Reprise
Charts Peak : US #69, UK #39 (Oct 1970)

Mick Fleetwood
Danny Kirwan
John McVie
Jeremy Spencer
guest appearance by Christine McVie


Fleetwood Mac's first album after the departure of their nominal leader, Peter Green, finds the remaining members, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Jeremy Spencer, and Danny Kirwan (plus McVie's wife, Christine) trying to maintain the band's heavy, blues-rock approach, with the burden falling on Spencer and Kirwan. They don't embarrass themselves, but none of this is of the caliber of Green's work. (William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide)



A "Kiln House" selection introduced Fleetwood Mac
Reviewer: Anonymous, October 03, 2002

What piece defined Fleetwood Mac for myself? It wasn't off of Rumours. It wasn't off of the '75 self-titled album. It wasn't off of "Heroes are Hard to Find," "Bare Trees," nor even "Then Play On." Nope, "Oh Well" was the SECOND Fleetwood Mac piece which helped define the name "Fleetwood Mac" as progressive rock. The very first song on the radio which inspired me to equate Fleetwood Mac with progressive, non-bubble-gum style rock & roll was the musically upbeat "Tell Me All The Things You Do." Yet many current "Classic Hits" radio stations won't touch this fine piece of 1970 vintage progressive rock with a ten foot pole. Today's younger "calssic hits" listeners don't know what they are missing.



My favorite FM album. Last of the heavy guitar Mac
Reviewer: Jared Zelmer, Guitarist, Singer for ' Th Placidyls' July 06, 2002

I think this album is a great vehicle for Spencer and Kirwins' talents. My favorite Spencer song, 'Buddy's Song' is a great rocking/pop ode to Buddy Holly with some cool licks. Kirwin's music on 'Station Man' and 'Tell Me ...' just rock out. They are just heavy, heavy songs with extended interplay between Spencer and Kirwin. 'Earl Gray' is a strange instrumental, it's really unique, it leaves you expecting some chord progressions to resolve, but they never seem to.
The strongest facet of the album is Kirwin. The weakest part of Kirwin on this album is his lyrics, which typically are one verse (or phrase) continually repeated. Kirwin had an abstact take on song structures and had a totally individual guitar style. Its too bad he couldn't hold it together and keep his focus (You hear 'Life Machine' off of his 2nd solo album and can hear his goods still). I think he might have been better off in a team effort, instead of having to be completely responsible for cranking out new words and music instead of being a guitar player first (his best attribute) and songwriter second (which sometimes seems forced, in particular the solo albums).
Check out Dragon Fly (from around this era), its Kirwin at his best. Also, of 'The Chain' box set is a song called 'Trinity' its in the same vein as some of these songs (short lyric repeated twice with lots of jamming).
All in all, knowing this record makes Kirwin and Spencer both sad stories of lost talent.



Kiln House ROCKS! Peter Green ROCKS! NOT Stevie Nicks
Reviewer: loaf (xmixahlx@yahoo.com), January 19, 2002

Joe writes "Anything with a Fleetwood-McVie rhythm section is definitely worth a listen..." NOT SO reference the Lindsey Buckingham-Stevie Nicks era. Fleetwood and McVie somehow got thrown into "THE EAGLES' 2nd string band"...forget "pop hits" and stick with Greeny...

Anyone checking out Kiln House would [i assume] be interested in the Peter Green/Blues era [known as the Original Fleetwood Mac] so here it goes

Check out the Fleetwood Mac Blue Horizon Box Set...yeah, it doesn't have Kiln House - which is too bad - but it does have 6 CDs worth of the band in their short-lived blues incarnation...the first 3 albums plus an incredible collection of LIVE IN CHICAGO tracks featured on the expensive Blues Jam in Chicago Record and an additional CD of miscellaneous/rare/unreleased tracks. Also worth every dime spent is the FLeetwood Mac BBC Sessions 2 CD Set and the LIVE IN BOSTON 3 CD set.

These 3 releases, plus Kiln House should give you an incredibly complete Fleetwood Mac Collection [minus additional live albums and bootlegs of course]...i spent $75 total for these twelve CDs and not once did i wish i could listen to Rhiannon or whatever that crap is called. WARNING!!!! Once you go Green you don't go back...so if you want to have Buckingham's or Nicks' baby, DO NOT listen to GREEN, cause those "other" records will find the trash can real quick...






Bare Trees

Format : Domestic CD
Released : 1972 Mar
Label : Reprise
RIAA Certification : Album - Platinum (1 million, 2/09/88)
Charts Peak : US #70 (May 1972)

Mick Fleetwood
Danny Kirwan
Christine McVie
John McVie
Bob Welch


On Bare Trees, Fleetwood Mac married the gritty electric blues-rock of their earlier incarnations to the classic pop sensibilities that would later become fully realized in 1975's Fleetwood Mac. Bob Welch's "Sentimental Lady" and Christine McVie's soulful "Spare Me a Little of Your Love" are highlights. Danny Kirwin revealed an ability to compose highly melodic material that didn't constrain the band's legendary musical chemistry. Rated: 1. (Rick Clark, All Music Guide, Volume 1, Number 1)



The great road album
Reviewer: Zebadiah al-Hejira, Tiger Milk Music January 29, 2003

I discovered the depth of this album by taking it on the highway - wintertime, as it happened. Aside from 2 songs each by Christine McVie and Bob Welch, this is Danny Kirwan's great moment. His instrumental "Sunny Side of Heaven" and voice-instrumental "Danny's Chant" are great as it is, and only attain further greatness on the highway. Particularly Christine's great hit, "Homeward Bound." She and Danny seem to be pushing each other musically to new heights; the song contains some of the Perfect Lady's best lyrics AND piano playing, not to mention a HOT guitar solo. Did I mention that this song features Mick's best drumming to date? Bob Welch gave us "Sentimental Lady" for the first time and also "The Ghost," which was nice but not up to the standard he'd later set. Danny Kirwan dominates the proceedings in a golden blaze. Sad to note what became of him afterwards.




Nope, The BEST Fleetwood Mac LP, ever....period.
Reviewer: Anonymous, September 26, 2002

So terribly tired of the condescension towards Danny Kirwan and his contribution to Fleetwood Mac, especially in what appears to be the "official" review in the table above, which talks of Danny's songs "not constraining the band's legendary ..."...what absolute hogwash! Bare Trees is the best Fleetwood Mac album ever because Danny's songs are the most appealing on the entire record. OK...Sentimental Lady is a "hit" but Danny's songs are the total standouts, the most imaginative, the most creative, the most essential. The later "pop" Mac, with "The Two Who Shall Remain Nameless", pales utterly in comparison. Gosh...the "sensitive" eighties hadn't happened yet..."recovery" wasn't yet a pop-culture catch-phrase ...too bad.....maybe Danny would still be making music.




This cd heloped me get through university
Reviewer: Futuregames1, June 15, 2002

On the whole, this is one of my favorite mac albums. It has Christine's love songs, Bob Welch's more etheral explorations, and Danny Kirwin's rootsier material. Standouts are Spare Me A Little Love and Sentimental Lady. I only wish they had put on an actual song instead of that poem.