I can understand why even ardent Fleetwood Mac fans find it difficult to say they genuinely like this ninth album, the fourth and last to feature Bob Welch — and the first recorded as a quartet, since Bob Weston got the boot after boinking Jenny Boyd. She was Mick’s wife at the time, after all.
It’s February ‘71, Fleetwood Mac are touring the southwest US, and co-founding guitarist Jeremy Spencer has gone out for a magazine. He will not return — to the band at all, but initially not even to anywhere he could be located. Eventually it’s discovered that he’s joined the SoCal Christian cult the Children of God, now known as the Family.