Fleetwood Mac blues guitarist Peter Green dies at 73
Source: Washington Post
Peter Green, the dexterous blues guitarist who led the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac in a career shortened by psychedelic drugs and mental illness, has died at 73.
A law firm representing his family, Swan Turton, announced the death in a statement Saturday. It said he died “peacefully in his sleep? this weekend. A further statement will be issued in the coming days.
Green, to some listeners, was the best of the British blues guitarists of the 1960s. B.B. King once said Green “has the sweetest tone I ever heard. He was the only one who gave me the cold sweats.”
Green also made a mark as a composer with “Albatross,” and as a songwriter with “Oh Well” and “Black Magic Woman.”
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The only Fleetwood Mac albums I have are the ones with him playing. They never lived up to that level afterward and I was done with them when they included Buckingham and Nicks.
So sad that most people have no idea who he is. I recently introduces a long-time Fleetwood Mac fan to early PG material. He was blown away.
So much great music:
- Black Magic Woman
- Rattlesnake Shake (...psychedelic hand-shaking...
- Green Manalishi
- Man of the World
- Oh Well
- Albatross
