The Soundstage Sessions is the tenth album released by the American singer-songwriter and Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a British–American rock band formed in 1967 in London.The only original member present in the band is its eponymous drummer, Mick Fleetwood...

 vocalist Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks

Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums...

. Although it is the first live album of Nicks' solo career, it was produced to sound like a studio album.

Album information

The Soundstage Sessions was recorded in October 2007 before an intimate audience at WTTW

WTTW

WTTW channel 11 is one of three Public Broadcasting Service member public television stations serving the Chicago, Illinois market; the others are WYCC and WYIN. WTTW began broadcasting on September 6, 1955 and it is owned and operated by Window to the World Communications, Inc., a not-for-profit...

's Grainger Studio in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, with the set list

Set list

A set list, or setlist, is a document that lists the songs that a band or musical artist intends to play, or has played, during a specific concert performance...

 containing 18 songs. In early 2008, Nicks went to Nashville and entered the studio with director/producer Joe Thomas

Joe Thomas (producer/director)

Joe Thomas is an American producer and director with over 25 years of experience in the entertainment field.-Career:With 25 years of experience in the entertainment field, Joe Thomas career spans the music and television industries from his beginnings serving as a writer, engineer and producer in...

. In the studio, they added "Nashville strings" and additional vocals to the songs that were to go on the CD. Nicks wanted the CD to sound perfect, and when asked about the project has said "I am as proud of this as anything I’ve ever done in my entire career." As of February 2011, the album has sold 46,000 copies.

A cover of Dave Matthews, "Crash Into Me" was released as the lead single.

Track listing

Deluxe edition

Reprise Records released a Deluxe Edition exclusively through the Warner Bros. Records Store, which is called The Soundstage Sessions: Live in Chicago. The Deluxe Edition is a CD/DVD set, and includes new cover art, a lithograph of Nicks, and free mp3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

 downloads of "Rhiannon" and "The One".

Standard and Blu-Ray DVD

The Blu-Ray DVD of this performance has been available exclusively at Sears since December 1, 2008 and features a total of 16 tracks in high-definition. The standard edition DVD of this performance was released by Reprise Records as Live in Chicago

Live in Chicago (Stevie Nicks DVD)

Live In Chicago is a DVD by the American singer-songwriter and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks. It was filmed for PBS's Soundstage, and her episode aired in July 2008. Its release is also accompanied with the live album, The Soundstage Sessions...

.

Personnel

Main Performers

• Stevie Nicks - vocals, producer
• Vanessa Carlton
  Vanessa Carlton
  Vanessa Lee Carlton is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Upon completion of her education at the School of American Ballet, Carlton chose to pursue singing instead, performing in New York bars and clubs while attending university. Three months after recording a demo with producer Peter...
  
   - guest performer
• Sharon Celani - backup vocals
• Lori Nicks - backup vocals
• Jana Anderson - backup vocals

Production

• Joe Thomas
  Joe Thomas (producer/director)
  Joe Thomas is an American producer and director with over 25 years of experience in the entertainment field.-Career:With 25 years of experience in the entertainment field, Joe Thomas career spans the music and television industries from his beginnings serving as a writer, engineer and producer in...
  
   - producer
• Waddy Wachtel - producer
• Frank Pappalardo - engineering
• Michael Czaszwicz -engineering
• Patrick DeWitte - assistant engineering
• Mixed at HD Ready, St. Charles

Musicians

• Waddy Wachtel - musical director/guitar
• Lenny Castro - percussion
• Al Ortiz - bass
• Jimmy Paxson - drums
• Ricky Peterson - keyboards
• Carlos Rios - guitar
• Darrell Smith - keyboards

String Section

• Eric Roth - conductor
• Janice MacDonald - flute
• Deb Stevenson - oboe
• Greg Flint - horn
• Christine Worthing - horn
• Guillaume Combet - violin
• Jennifer Cappelli - violin
• Carmen Llop-Kassinger - violin
• Christine Keiko Abe - violin
• Carol Cook - viola
• Jocelyn Davis-Beck - cello
• Eddie Bayers
  Eddie Bayers
  Eddie Bayers is an American session drummer who has played on 150 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for eight straight years, and has three times won the Nashville Music Awards 'Drummer of the Year'...
  
   - drums
• Michael Rhodes - bass
• Joe Thomas
  Joe Thomas (producer/director)
  Joe Thomas is an American producer and director with over 25 years of experience in the entertainment field.-Career:With 25 years of experience in the entertainment field, Joe Thomas career spans the music and television industries from his beginnings serving as a writer, engineer and producer in...
  
   - keyboards

Charts

Chart (2009)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	47
U.S. Billboard Top Current Rock Albums	15
U.S. Billboard Top Digital Albums	55
U.S. Billboard Top Internet Albums	5