John McVie's "Gotta Band" with Lola Thomas is an album by John McVie and a self-assembled group of musicians released in 1992. It marks the only time the Fleetwood Mac bass player, probably best known for his solos on The Chain, ever released anything under his own name. The lineup included his Fleetwood Mac colleague Billy Burnette and his former colleague from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Mick Taylor who is best known for his 1969-74 stint with the Rolling Stones. The singer Lola Thomas did no recorded work before or after this project. According to John McVie, "The "Gotta Band" thing was a "one off". Lola Thomas is now happily married with a lovely daughter. She's a great singer and it was a fun project but we couldn't "work" the album. Tour etc."[1]
Billy Burnette contributed two songs to the project: Now I Know, written with his frequent collaborators David Malloy and Dennis Morgan, and The Bigger the Love which he had recorded previously as a solo artist and would again.
Track listing[]
- Evidence (John Herron/Gregg Sutton/Bob Pfeifer)
- Now I Know (Billy Burnette/David Malloy/Dennis Morgan)
- Lost What You Had (Lola Thomas)
- Shot Down By Love (Sam Brown/Greg Sutton)
- Step Aside (David Plenn/Dennis Walker)
- You Left Me Lonely (Lola Thomas/Dennis Walker)
- The Bigger the Love (The Harder the Fall) (Billy Burnette/Larry Henley/Larry Keith)
- All That I Was Guilty Of... (Lola Thomas/Greg Sutton)
- One More Time With Feeling (Lola Thomas)
- The Way I Do (Lola Thomas)
Personnel[]
John McVie - bass, backing vocals
Lola Thomas - lead vocals
Billy Burnette - guitars, backing vocals
Mick Taylor - guitars
David Plenn - guitars, arrangements
Jim Pugh - keyboards
Lee Spath - drums
Brad Dutz - percussion
Wayne Jackson & Andrew Love - The Memphis Horns
George Hawkins - backing vocals
Produced by Dennis Walker
References[]
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