Fleetwood Mac: The Essential Blues Collection

By GRAHAM REID

A useful 18-track, locally compiled collection which effectively sweeps up the blues-cred material this band once delivered before guitarist Peter Green spun out and Mick Fleetwood and John McVie relocated to LA, reinvented the band and all but created FM rock and the cocaine excesses of late 70s with Rumours.

But before that they delivered classic 60s Angloblues on their Green's originals Oh Well (Part 1), the still attractive instrumental Albatross, Green Manalishi and covered blues classics like Little Willie John's Need Your Love So Bad, and Elmore James' Dust My Broom and Shake Your Moneymaker (the latter resurrected again by the Black Crowes).

Not much here for anyone under 45 perhaps — the blues is something in the history books — but for older fans a one-stop shop of them at their bluesy best.

Label: Sony