Fleetwood Mac - Oh, Well

This collection gathers together several single only tracks by the last incarnation of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, as well as Green's solo singles and some Danny Kirwan-penned songs from the Kiln House era, in order to create an LP that rounds up the Green era.

01. The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown) (Peter Green)
02. Beasts Of Burden (Peter Green/Nigel Watson)
03. Dragonfly (Danny Kirwan)
04. Like It This Way (Danny Kirwan)
05. Man Of The World (Peter Green)
06. Earl Gray (Danny Kirwan)
07. Love It Seems (Danny Kirwan)
08. Oh, Well - Part I (Peter Green)
09. Oh, Well - Part II (Peter Green)
10. Farewell (Earl Gray Reprise) (Danny Kirwan)
11. Heavy Heart (Peter Green/Nigel Watson/C. Kelly/C. Chewaluza)
12. Uganda Woman (Nigel Watson)
13. Jewel-Eyed Judy (Danny Kirwan/Mick Fleetwood/John McVie)
14. The Purple Dancer (Danny Kirwan)
15. World In Harmony (Danny Kirwan/Peter Green)

Bonus tracks:

16. [Hidden Jams Track, 1969]
17. No Way Out (Peter Green/Nigel Watson)
18. The Purple Dancer (BBC Session) (Danny Kirwan)
19. Oh, Well - Part I (Live 1969) (Peter Green)

"Man Of The World" (April 1969), "Oh, Well - Part I & II" (summer 1969) and "The Green Manalishi"/"World In Harmony" (May 1970), were the last three singles Fleetwood Mac released with Peter Green's involvement.

About "The Green Manalishi": The song was written during Green's final months with the band, at a time when he was struggling with LSD and had withdrawn from other members of the band. While there are several theories about the meaning of the title "Green Manalishi", Green has always maintained that the song is about money, as represented by the devil. Green has explained that he wrote the song after experiencing a drug-induced dream in which he was visited by a green dog which barked at him. He understood that the dog represented money.  

"It scared me because I knew the dog had been dead a long time. It was a stray and I was looking after it. But I was dead and had to fight to get back into my body, which I eventually did. When I woke up, the room was really black and I found myself writing the song."
 
Also included are Peter Green's first two solo singles: "Heavy Heart"/"No Way Out" (1971) and "Beasts Of Burden"/"Uganda Woman" (1972) which show Green's explorations into free rock (with his first solo album The End Of The Game) and African Folk fusion. The four tracks where written and recorded with the help of Nigel Watson.

Most of the other tracks showcase young (19 at the time) Danny Kirwan's talent for songwriting; with "Earl Gray" (and its acoustic demo "Farewell"), "Jewel-Eyed Judy" or Kiln House outtake "Love It Seems" all from 1970. The blues-driven "Like It This Way", also written by Kirwan, was played extensively during the band's 1969 tour, and is presented here in a studio version recorded in 1969.

Finally, the great "Dragonfly"/"The Purple Dancer" single from 1971, recorded after the release of the Kiln House LP, clearly is, as stated by Peter Green: "The best thing he [Danny Kirwan] ever wrote... that should have been a hit."

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