Track Listing

1. Not Too Late
2. Show You How
3. Under The Skin
4. I Am Waiting
5. It Was You
6. Try For The Sun
7. Cast Away Dreams
8. Shut Us Down
9. Down On Rodeo
10. Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind
11. Juniper

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14178 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-03
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Buckingham's first album in 14 years, Under The Skin, is a pop masterpiece worth the wait! All tracks were performed and produced by Buckingham, and all but two were written by him.

Amazon.com
Since his solo flight from Fleetwood Mac, Lindsay Buckingham has earned the kind of artistic acclaim for his sparse solo work that many peers have tried to achieve over the course of a lifetime. Under the Skin, stripped down to a mostly acoustic base with ethereal vocals and subtle affects, surfaces as if from a deeper soulful realm that is both magically fleeting and somehow permanent. It's a deceptively simple album with its acoustic guitars zinging South American flourishes here, semi-classical guitar figures there, and country-like riffs. Both "Show You How " and "Down on Rodeo"  beg to be adapted to the full rock-pop sound he and his former bandmates created. Buckingham's tempered vocals sound mysterious throughout, given the ambient production scrim he drops over the record's 11 tracks, including a remake of the Stones' "I'm Waiting" and "It Was You," with its suggestive Caribbean flavor and soft, industrial-percussive edge. Strange, alluring, and disarming, it's as if Buckingham can offer only passing personal glimpses into his own life and psyche as a father, husband, lover, iconic pop star, and California songwriter dabbling in but never anchoring himself in one place for too long. This pleasing shadowplay at times borders slightly on the self-conscious, but generally, with the quality of such lovely self-confessional songs like "Cast Away Dreams," Buckingham leaves us willing to follow him any place, wanting more. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews

Slightly Disappointed
I think I gave this review 3 stars instead of 2 just because I am a big Lindsey fan. I truly enjoy his singing and absolutely love his guitar mastery. I bought this album without hearing all of the songs and I was worried I may not love it, and I was right. Just too slow, and no real feeling in my opinion. They all sound kind of the same. My favorite track is Down on Rodeo, but I prefer the solo accoustical "improv" performance on his Youtube site. Out of the Cradle is one of my favorite CD's in my collection -- this is totally different. Don't know if he has another album in the works -- I'll buy it for sure, as I really respect Lindsey for what he has accomplished and the passion he obviously puts into his work. Unfortunately, this CD just didn't really do it for me.

Now This Is What I Call GOOD Music
Happened to see Buckingham on "Ellen" last year - I was totally intrigued by his awesome guitarwork. He sang "Not Too Late" and I thought "Wow, there's really some substance (excellent) here". I bought Under The Skin and was totally blown away by the quality of the music - you don't hear this kind of good music anymore, nowadays. I've been playing this cd nonstop since the day I bought it. I'm now backtracking to Buckingham's previous solo releases. Can't believe I'd never noted this music genius's body of work outside fleetwood Mac before.

Never Too Late
The most under-appreciated guitarist in the annals of Rock `N Roll, this his passion play; an intricate delve into his psyche where, for the first time in years - perhaps ever - he displays a coherence in his intrinsic confessional that threads the sum of its parts to create a gorgeous entity, without an iota of self-indulgence or pretentiousness. There's strangeness to it, still...the layers reflect an eerie, haunting serenity piece, interrupted at times with his genius fingerpicking craft. Stevie Nicks should take notes on its beguiling intimacy. My grade: A-