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Kiln House is an album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
 by British
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
 rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 band Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
, released in 1970 (see 1970 in music
1970 in music

Events * Charles Wuorinen becomes the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.* January 3 - Davy Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees....
). This is the first of the post-Peter Green
Peter Green (musician)

Peter Green is a United Kingdom blues-rock guitarist and founder of the band Fleetwood Mac.A figurehead in the British blues movement, Green inspired B....
 Fleetwood Mac albums, and their last album to feature Jeremy Spencer
Jeremy Spencer

Jeremy Spencer , is a United Kingdom musician, best known as one of Fleetwood Mac's first guitarists, joining the band in July 1967. He grew up in South London and was educated at Strand School, where he was noted for his mischievous impressions of various members of the teaching staff....
. Christine McVie
Christine McVie

Christine McVie is an England singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. Her primary fame came as a member of the British/American rock band Fleetwood Mac though she has also released three solo albums....
 was present at the recording sessions and contributed backing vocals and cover art, although she was not a full member of the band until shortly after the album's completion.

Spencer's retro 50s homages and parodies dominate the album, but Danny Kirwan
Danny Kirwan

Daniel David "Danny" Kirwan is a Great Britain musician best known for his role as guitarist, singer and songwriter with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac between 1968 and 1972....
's more sincere songs are almost equally prominent.






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Kiln House is an album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
 by British
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
 rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 band Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
, released in 1970 (see 1970 in music
1970 in music

Events * Charles Wuorinen becomes the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.* January 3 - Davy Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees....
). This is the first of the post-Peter Green
Peter Green (musician)

Peter Green is a United Kingdom blues-rock guitarist and founder of the band Fleetwood Mac.A figurehead in the British blues movement, Green inspired B....
 Fleetwood Mac albums, and their last album to feature Jeremy Spencer
Jeremy Spencer

Jeremy Spencer , is a United Kingdom musician, best known as one of Fleetwood Mac's first guitarists, joining the band in July 1967. He grew up in South London and was educated at Strand School, where he was noted for his mischievous impressions of various members of the teaching staff....
. Christine McVie
Christine McVie

Christine McVie is an England singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. Her primary fame came as a member of the British/American rock band Fleetwood Mac though she has also released three solo albums....
 was present at the recording sessions and contributed backing vocals and cover art, although she was not a full member of the band until shortly after the album's completion.

Spencer's retro 50s homages and parodies dominate the album, but Danny Kirwan
Danny Kirwan

Daniel David "Danny" Kirwan is a Great Britain musician best known for his role as guitarist, singer and songwriter with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac between 1968 and 1972....
's more sincere songs are almost equally prominent. "Buddy's Song" is credited to Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
's mother, but is actually the song "Peggy Sue Got Married" with new lyrics listing a great many Buddy Holly song titles.

An early version of Kirwan's instrumental "Earl Gray", entitled "Farewell", was later released on the compilation The Vaudeville Years
The Vaudeville Years

The Vaudeville Years of Fleetwood Mac 1968 To 1970 is an album by Great Britain blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1998. It was a compilation of outtakes and unreleased tracks from the band's early line-up, none of which had previously seen the light of day officially....
.

Track listing

  1. "This Is the Rock" (Spencer) – 2:45
  2. "Station Man" (Kirwan/Spencer/J McVie) – 5:49
  3. "Blood on the Floor" (Spencer) – 2:44
  4. "Hi Ho Silver" (Waller/Kirkeby) – 3:05
  5. "Jewel Eyed Judy" (Kirwan/Fleetwood/J McVie) – 3:17
  6. "Buddy's Song" (Buddy Holly
    Buddy Holly

    Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
    ) – 2:08
  7. "Earl Gray" (Kirwan) – 4:01
  8. "One Together" (Spencer) – 3:23
  9. "Tell Me All the Things You Do" (Kirwan) – 4:10
  10. "Mission Bell" (Hodges/Michael) – 2:32


Personnel

Fleetwood Mac
  • Jeremy Spencer
    Jeremy Spencer

    Jeremy Spencer , is a United Kingdom musician, best known as one of Fleetwood Mac's first guitarists, joining the band in July 1967. He grew up in South London and was educated at Strand School, where he was noted for his mischievous impressions of various members of the teaching staff....
     – guitar
    Guitar

    The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
    , vocals
    Singing

    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
    , piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  • Danny Kirwan
    Danny Kirwan

    Daniel David "Danny" Kirwan is a Great Britain musician best known for his role as guitarist, singer and songwriter with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac between 1968 and 1972....
     – guitar, vocals
  • John McVie
    John McVie

    John Graham McVie is a British bass guitarist best known as a member of the rock group Fleetwood Mac. He joined Fleetwood Mac shortly after its formation by guitarist Peter Green in 1967, replacing the band's first bassist, Bob Brunning....
     – bass
    Bass guitar

    The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
  • Mick Fleetwood
    Mick Fleetwood

    Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood is a United Kingdom-born musician best known for his role as the drummer with the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac....
     – percussion
    Percussion instrument

    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....
    , drums
    Drum kit

    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....


Additional Personnel
  • Christine McVie
    Christine McVie

    Christine McVie is an England singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. Her primary fame came as a member of the British/American rock band Fleetwood Mac though she has also released three solo albums....
     – backing vocals (uncredited)


Production

  • Producer: Fleetwood Mac
  • Engineer: Martin Birch
    Martin Birch

    Martin Birch is a Great Britain rock music and Heavy metal music music producer, who became internationally renowned for engineering and producing the legendary albums by the British rock bands Deep Purple and Iron Maiden....
  • Cover drawing by Christine McVie
    Christine McVie

    Christine McVie is an England singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. Her primary fame came as a member of the British/American rock band Fleetwood Mac though she has also released three solo albums....