Ken Caillat coproduced Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 album, Rumours, for which he won the Grammy for Album of the Year. He also produced the group's Tusk, Mirage, and Live albums, as well as their box set, The Chain. He has worked on albums with everyone from George Carlin, engineering his epochal Class Clown, to the London Symphony Orchestra. He is the father of Grammy-winning singer Colbie Caillat, and he produced her number one album, Breakthrough.
Steven Stiefel has written several books, including contributions to two by LL Cool J. He also works as a magazine writer and editor. His fiction has appeared in the Georgia Review and McSweeney's.
Caillat, coproducer of Fleetwood Mac's chart-topping, Grammy Award-winning 1977 album, Rumours, here tells his story of its nearly yearlong recording. The personal dramas and hedonistic lifestyles of the band members at the time are well known and have been written about in Donald Brackett's Fleetwood Mac: 40 Years of Creative Chaos and Bob Brunning's The Fleetwood Mac Story: Rumours and Lies; however, Caillat's then position as a relative novice with no producing experience makes this contribution distinctive and absorbing. Transplanted to Sausalito, CA, for the bulk of the sessions, where he lived with members of the band and became intimately connected with them in and out of the studio, the author presents not just a story about the recording of a classic album but also a vivid evocation of the laid-back atmosphere of the California music scene in the mid-1970s. Verdict Recommended for readers interested in music recording and popular music, particularly 1970s pop and Fleetwood Mac.-Dave Valencia, Seattle P.L. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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