Stevie Nicks will get a hand from shut pal Sheryl Crow and producer Dave Cobb on her new single, “The Lighthouse,” which is out now from Warner Information. Crow and Cobb co-produced the music with Nicks, whereas Crow sings and performs guitar and bass. Waddy Wachtel, the longtime guitarist in Nicks’ solo band, additionally contributed to the recording, which was impressed by the Supreme Court docket placing down the constitutional proper to abortion in 2022.
“I wrote this music a couple of months after Roe v. Wade was overturned,” says Nicks. “It appeared like in a single day, folks had been saying, ‘what can we, as a collective power, do about this?’ For me, it was to write down a music. It took some time as a result of I used to be on the street. Then early one morning I used to be watching the information on TV and a sure newscaster stated one thing that felt like she was speaking to me—explaining what the lack of Roe v. Wade would come to imply. I wrote the music the following morning and recorded it that night time.”
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“That was 9/6/2022. I’ve been engaged on it ever since,” she continues. “I’ve usually stated to myself, ‘this can be a very powerful factor I ever do. To face up for the ladies of the US and their daughters and granddaughters — and the lads that love them.’ That is an anthem.”
Nicks has seldom launched unique music previously decade; her newest was the 2020 single “Present Them the Means,” though she put out a canopy of Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Price” two years later and in addition guested on the latest Gorillaz album, Cracker Island. The arrival of “The Lighthouse” seems timed to the Fleetwood Mac principal’s Oct. 12 look on Saturday Night time Stay, though it’s unknown if she’s going to carry out the monitor on the episode.
Nicks has a solitary present scheduled tomorrow (Sept. 28) in Hershey, Pa., as a make-up for a June gig postponed resulting from sickness. On March 29, 2025, she’s going to staff with Billy Joel for a live performance at Ford Area in Detroit.
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