Warm Ways

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"Warm Ways"
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Single by Fleetwood Mac
from the album Fleetwood Mac
B-side "Blue Letter" (single version)
ReleasedOctober 1975 (UK) [1]
RecordedFebruary 1975
Genre
Length3:52
Label Reprise K 14403
Songwriter(s) Christine McVie
Producer(s) Fleetwood Mac, Keith Olsen
Fleetwood Mac singles chronology
"Heroes Are Hard to Find"
(1974)		"Warm Ways"
(1975)		"Over My Head"
(1975)
Audio video
"Warm Ways" on YouTube

"Warm Ways" is a song by the British/American music group Fleetwood Mac. It was included as the second track on the band's 1975 album titled Fleetwood Mac and was one of the four songs on the album solely written and sung by Christine McVie. The song was also issued as a single in the United Kingdom.

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Background

During the making of Tusk album, Buckingham borrowed aspects of his guitar playing on "Warm Ways" and repurposed it for "Over & Over", another song written by McVie. Buckingham had played slide guitar on "Warm Ways", a technique that he seldom utilised. Hernan Rojas, who served as the engineer for Tusk, said that Buckingham was reminded of "Warm Ways" when he first heard "Over & Over", making these one of the few songs along with "Never Forget" that featured Buckingham on slide guitar. [2]

In October 1975, "Warm Ways" was released as the lead single from Fleetwood Mac in the United Kingdom. It was not released as a single in the United States, where "Over My Head" was issued as the first single instead. The single did not chart in Britain, with only the fourth single from the album, "Say You Love Me" managing to chart upon its original release. [1] Fleetwood Mac rehearsed the song for their Fleetwood Mac Tour, but they never performed it live. [3]

Critical reception

PopMatters wrote that the song "lives up to its title and then some", adding that the music possessed a "wistful" quality. [4] Writing for NPR , Annie Zaleski noted how McVie stretched out the syllables on a few lyrics found in "Warm Ways", which Zaleski said "illuminate[d] the coziness of sleeping by a beloved." [5]

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 296. ISBN   9780862415419.
  2. ↑ Caillat, Ken; Rojas, Hernan (2019). Get Tusked: The Inside Story of Fleetwood Mac's Most Anticipated Album. Guilford, Connecticut: Backbeat Books. p. 114. ISBN   978-1-4930-5983-6.
  3. ↑ Roubin, Olivier; Ollivier, Romuald (1 April 2025). Fleetwood Mac: All The Songs. New York: Black Dog Leventhal Publishers. p. 332. ISBN   978-0-7624-8630-4.
  4. ↑ "Christine McVie's Warm Ways". PopMatters . 8 March 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  5. ↑ Zaleski, Annie (5 December 2022). "Christine McVie brought romantic optimism to Fleetwood Mac". NPR. Retrieved 9 February 2025.


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