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on 8 February 2008.

Background

The album represented a return to the

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music with which Fleetwood first found success, as a founding member of

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in the late 1960s. In the sleeve notes, he dedicated the album to his original Fleetwood Mac bandmates, Peter Green, John McVie and

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, and to the legacy of Fleetwood Mac. Around half the tracks on the album were Peter Green compositions. Fleetwood did not seek to copy the original Fleetwood Mac, rather to "pay it tribute by creating something both historically respectful yet new and invigorated."Jonathan Todd & James Soars, "Blue Again" sleevenotes, 2008. To this end, he recruited former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Rick Vito, who had played on the ''

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'' album in 1990, together with two relative unknowns, Lenny Castellanos and Mark Johnstone, to form the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band. The band subsequently undertook a tour of the

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, and later in 2008, Europe, including an appearance at the Notodden Blues Festival in

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. The album was accompanied by a short bonus CD of studio recordings, including new versions of Green's "

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" and "The Supernatural", recorded in

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and

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Track listing

Live CD

#"Red Hot Gal" ( Rick Vito) – 5:34 #"Looking for Somebody" ( Peter Green) – 5:02 #"Fleetwood Boogie" (Vito) – 5:19 #"

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" (

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" (Green) – 5:55 #"When We Do the Lucky Devil" (Vito) – 4:38 #"Love That Burns" (Green) – 6:03 #"Medley: Rollin' Man / Bayou Queen" (Green, Vito) – 5:06 #" Black Magic Woman" (Green) – 8:38 #"I Got a Hole in My Shoe" (Vito) – 4:10 #" Shake Your Moneymaker" ( Elmore James) – 7:49

Bonus CD

" (Green) tudio bonus track recorded in Hawaii– 3:15 #"Napili Nocturne" (Vito) – 3:38 #"The Supernatural" (Green) – 3:00 #"La Mer d'Amour" (Vito) – 4:20

Personnel

Live CD

* Rick Vito –

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*Lenny Castellanos –

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*Mark Johnstone –

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, backing vocals * Mick Fleetwood –

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Bonus CD

*Rick Vito – guitar, bass guitar, keyboards *Mick Fleetwood – drums *Produced by Mick Fleetwood and Rick Vito *Executive Producer – Mick Fleetwood, Jonathan Todd and William Reeve Pie *Bonus CD mixed by Rick Vito, Dennis Mays and Lynn Peterson

Charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blue Again 2008 albums Mick Fleetwood albums Rick Vito albums