Originally released in 1973, "Buckingham Nicks" is not currently available on streaming platforms. The album was last issued on vinyl in the US in 1981. The remastered version arrives September 19 via Rhino Records' high-fidelity series and was sourced from the original analog master tapes.
The album will receive a CD and digital release for the first time, and the opening track, "Crying in the Night," was available to stream Wednesday.
Buckingham and Nicks were in their early to mid-20s during the making of their album.
Despite their relative inexperience, "it stands up in a way you would hope it would, by these two kids who were pretty young to be doing that work," Buckingham says, according to the announcement release.
The reissued version of "Buckingham Nicks" features the same album cover as the original, despite Nicks' public dissatisfaction with the photograph, telling classic rock magazine MOJO that she "felt like a rat in a trap" during the shoot.
"I'm actually quite prudish. So when they suggested they shoot Lindsey and I nude I could not have been more terrified if you'd asked me to jump off a speeding train," Nicks told MOJO in 2013. "Lindsey was like, 'Oh, come on — this is art. Don't be a child!' I thought, 'Who are you? Don't you know me?'"
"Buckingham Nicks" was released one year before they joined Fleetwood Mac, and was met with little commercial success. But it did attract the attention of Mick Fleetwood, who invited Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham in turn insisted Nicks come, too. The two then became the central faces, voices and songwriters of the group for the four decades that followed.
The pair's tumultuous relationship appeared across the band's discography: She wrote "Dreams" about him. He wrote "Go Your Own Way" about her. Infamously, they broke up while writing the 1977 hit album "Rumours."
Buckingham left the band in 1987, returning in 1996. The last time the band reunited, however, for a 2018-2019 tour, the rest of the members kicked him out, and Buckingham sued them. He claimed he was told five days after the group appeared at Radio City Music Hall that the band would tour without him. He says he would have been paid at least $12 million for his share of the proceeds. Later that year, Buckingham said they had settled the lawsuit.
