Christine McVie

The prospect of a Christine McVie solo album sounded exciting. After all, McVie seems to
be the strong, silent center of Fleetwood Mac, the calm queen to Stevie Nicks' pampered
princess. And her songs ("Over My Head," "Say You Love Me," "You Make Loving Fun," "Hold
Me") have been among the band's most fetching hits. However, as anyone who heard her
first solo album (recorded fourteen years ago and later reissued as The Legenda... More >

Both sides are unimpeachably sensible and unfailingly pleasant; except for the closer, each of the ten tunes paces proudly by in full confidence that it will set you humming. Yet as reported, the proceedings are a little, shall we say, somnolent, which I blame not just on a voice whose deep satisfactions are best appreciated in the company of brighter and flightier ones but on a drummer who isn't Mick and a bassist who isn't John. (Grade: B+)