First ever expanded edition of Peter Green’s 1979 comeback album / Includes 4 rare bonus tracks / Digitally remastered by Vic Anesini / New 2,600-word liner notes by Ralph Chapman (The Guess Who, Mountain) / Memorabilia-packed 16-page booklet / Founding member of Fleetwood Mac / Voted the third-best guitarist of all time in Mojo magazine, as well as one of Rolling Stone‘s Top 100 guitarists.
British blues-rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Peter Green is acclaimed as one of the all-time greats.
First achieving recognition with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, in which he replaced Eric Clapton, Green founded Fleetwood Mac in 1967. As that band’s first leader, Green wrote classic songs including “Black Magic Woman,” “Oh Well,” “The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown),” “Man of the World” and “Albatross,” all of which were also major hit singles in England. At the height of Fleetwood Mac’s early popularity, Green succumbed to drug and mental health issues and left the band in May 1970. Despite continuing health challenges, Peter Green reemerged as a solo artist in the late ‘70s with a series of albums on PVK Records.
Comeback album In the Skies was Green’s second solo record and first after 8 years in obscurity. Green surrounded himself with longtime friends Peter Bardens (Camel), Snowy White and members of Snowy White’s band including Kuma Harada and Reg Isidore (Robin Trower). Together they cut a modest, relaxed mix of vocal numbers and instrumentals, composed songs and jams. In the Skies proceeds at a leisurely pace a world away from the free-form intensity of Green’s 1970 solo debut The End of the Game or the contemporaneous hits of Fleetwood Mac. Yet its music casts a captivating, spellbinding mood and the record’s pleasures are many.
Often acclaimed as Peter Green’s best solo album, In the Skies returns to CD remastered by Vic Anesini and presented with bonus
tracks for the first time.