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While fans were bleak when Fleetwood Mac broke up, it was probably the best thing to happen to Stevie Nick’s career since she started producing music.

While Rumours is still a classic, she didn’t need the rest of the band to make her own way into music history.

She’s still going strong, and while she hadn’t released a solo song since her 2014 LP ’24 Karat Gold’, the wait is now over.

Per Rolling Stone, the “powerful” ballad ‘Show Them The Way’ was originally penned in 2008 when she was editing a concert film.

During that time she watched a few historical documentaries about the people that would become the inspiration for the track.

Take a listen to see if you can spot them:

More from Nicks on the process:

“I watched it all,” she tells Rolling Stone. “Then, what happened was, one night I went to bed and I had this dream. I dream a lot, but I almost never remember the dreams. I’ll wake up and I’ll go, ‘I remember a train with some people smiling and waving at me that went by really fast,’ and that’s it. This dream was so really real that there was a little bit of me, for a minute, when I sat up was like, ‘Did that just really happen?’ So I wrote it down just in prose. I didn’t write it down in a seven verse poem. I wrote down what had happened.”

She considered putting ‘Show Them The Way’ on her 2011 album In Your Dreams but decided to hold back.

“I said, ‘OK, I totally get it, and it really doesn’t go with the rest of these songs, it would be an outlier on this,’” she explains, adding that she wanted it to feel like the right time for the song to be out in the world. “I think the world is calling for it right now.”

Meanwhile, on TikTok, Fleetwood Mac is having a moment.

NPR explains that ‘Dreams’ performed by Nicks, from the album Rumours, is back on the charts after a man, Nathan Apodaca, posted a video on the site.

In the video that launched him into Internet fame, you see him wearing a gray hoodie — juice bottle in hand. He gives a cool-guy “what’s up?” nod to the screen. Then he turns his head around to check traffic, revealing a feather tattoo, which honors his Native American mother.

It has now made its way to Twitter:

‘Dreams’ by Fleetwood Mac gained renew popularity after Idaho labourer Nathan Apodaca, known as 420doggface208 on TikTok, filmed himself skateboarding down a highway drinking ‘Ocean Spray’ cranberry juice and mouthing Stevie Nicks. pic.twitter.com/LFC6LnKhMc

— Ignacio W. Palacios (@Onkayaks) October 8, 2020

Mick Fleetwood is pretty happy about it, especially after the song catapulted back onto the charts, tripling in sales.

“To some extent, it was a lovely accident,” Fleetwood said. “It could have been any song, but it was ours. For us bunch in Fleetwood Mac, the inspiring thing was that it was just so off the wall. Did we expect it? No. Are we happy and delighted? Absolutely.”

You can read more about that here.

[source:rollingstone&npr]