Then Play On – FLEETWOOD MAC****

Coming Your Way/Closing My Eyes/Fighting For Madge/When You Say/Show Biz Blues/Under Way/One Sunny Day/Although The Sun Is Shining/Rattlesnake Shake/Without You/Searching For Madge/My Dream/Like Crying/ Before The Beginning

Then Play On was the final album from the Peter Green led Fleetwood Mac. After many personnel changes the group would remain in the doldrums for several years, before achieving massive commercial success in the mid 1970s with a very different sound. (US:109 UK:6)

“Then Play On is simply the apex of guitarist Peter Green's blues rock Fleetwood Mac. The combination of Peter Green and Danny Kirwan's guitars together is utterly devastating and makes this a tour-de-force from beginning to end. If you love blues rock you need this one.”

“It starts off very strong but ends up being a little uneven. There's a bit to many long instrumental sections which just aren't that interesting and don't seem to go anywhere. A few very good songs are to be found here though, and the album has a cool vibe and sound to it. This is an album that could have benefited from better songwriting, with a little less aimless jamming and extended instrumental sections.”

“This is the apex of the early Fleetwood Mac albums and is definitely the most complete of the work that featured Peter Green. While the first few albums contained basic and banal, repetitive blues themes, this one has got a more rounded production, is well composed and thought out and contains more expressive songs, as Fleetwood Mac moved away from the straight ahead blues that clogged up their earlier albums.”

“This is British blues at it's finest served up by Peter Green, with Fleetwood Mac at full stride. Just when everything was clickin' on all cylinders, it would soon fall apart with the strange departure of Green as the band reached its zenith. Oh what might have been.”

“Then Play On has to be one of the most significant and beautiful albums of all time. Fleetwood Mac were way ahead of the curve with this release, which included country, blues, haunting rock, both electric and acoustic, with some fine vocal harmonies that reach into and touch your very soul. A quietly superb album, that just grows and grows on you.”