Tick Tock… the Countdown Begins; Stevie Nicks 24 Karat Gold – Songs From The Vault Oct. 7th Release

Pre-Orders Beginning Today, August 5th on iTunes, Amazon and DTC STEVIENICKSOFFICIAL.com Launches August 5th

BURBANK, CA–(Marketwired – Aug 5, 2014) – Today marks the first day Stevie Nicks fans can pre order 24 Karat Gold – Songs From The Vault as well as hear samples from the album and view exclusive content from the highly anticipated CD, Nicks’ first album in three years, it was confirmed today by her label, Warner Bros. Records.

Commented Nicks about the release of 24 Karat Gold: “I used to make cassettes of my songs and hand them out. But to know that these songs have finally been recorded with the same love they were originally created is joyous for me. I picked 12 songs from about 40 demos made from ’69 – ’87 and one each from 94 and 95. These songs are all about love and heartbreak — how to pick up the pieces — how to keep moving… I’m really chronicling love from the very beginning. When you write a song and it doesn’t go on a record, it floats around in your life for years. I took myself back to the time when these songs were written… Sometimes I can’t remember what happened yesterday but I remember so well what happened through the whole period of time that I wrote these songs. You think about them and go over them and they live inside of you until they becomes part of your world. These songs are now 24 Karat Gold.”

“The only way this would have been possible was because of the amazing ‘Nashvillians’ as I named the brilliant musicians we worked with in Nashville. They were a great band — tantamount to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers… We were awestruck just watching them. We had two weeks to lay down the tracks… This was going to be a fast moving train… That is how we roll and that IS how we rolled!! And we did it.”

A special version of 24 Karat Gold will be available on STEVIENICKSOFFICIAL.com which will also feature a lyric video for “The Dealer.” In addition, Stevie will be unveiling snippets from every song on her album each week through her Instagram account at “stevienicksofficial”.

Nicks, a multi-Grammy award winning, multi-platinum selling Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is scheduled to embark on the Fleetwood Mac ‘On With The Show’ Tour with recently returned bandmate Christine McVie beginning September 30th.

24 Karat Gold Songs From The Vault:
August 5th – Pre Order
September 29th – Special Limited Edition Double Vinyl
October 7th – Deluxe Photobook CD which includes two bonus tracks plus 48 pages of exclusive photos from Nicks’ personal collection

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Stevie Nicks’ new solo album 24 Karat Gold — Songs from the Vault is available now for preorder on iTunes and Amazon.com. “The Dealer” (pictured) can be purchased now as single on iTunes and Amazon.com.

24 Karat Gold — Songs from the Vault will be available as a double vinyl album on September 30 and on iTunes and Amazon.com on October 7.

For both iTunes and Amazon.com releases, the standard version consists of 14 songs. The deluxe version adds two tracks, “Twisted” and “Watch Chain.”

Deluxe Version

1. Starshine
2. If You Were My Love
3. Mabel Normand
4. Twisted (Bonus Track)
5. 24 Karat Gold
6. Belle Fleur
7. All the Beautiful Worlds
8. Lady
9. I Don’t Care
10. Watch Chain (Bonus Track)
11. Hard Advice
12. Carousel
13. Blue Water
14. Cathouse Blues
15. The Dealer
16. She Loves Him Still

Standard Version

1. Starshine
2. The Dealer
3. Mabel Normand
4. Blue Water
5. Cathouse Blues
6. 24 Karat Gold
7. Hard Advice
8. Lady
9. I Don’t Care
10. All the Beautiful Worlds
11. Belle Fleur
12. If You Were My Love
13. Carousel
14. She Loves Him Still

Fans share the newly recorded song on social media ahead of its Instagram debut

Stevie Nicks has released “The Dealer,” the first single from 24 Karat Gold – Songs from the Vault. A well-known demo (among longtime fans) dating back to the late 1970s, the song quietly made its official debut on iTunes UK and Australia Monday afternoon. Although the track was to debut in the U.S. on Nicks’ new Instagram account, fans quickly shared the iTunes preview on social media sites to spread word of the newly-recorded song.

Preview ‘The Dealer’

Official Track Listing – Standard & Deluxe Editions (iTunes Australia)

Thank you to Machu and Nicole for contributing to this report

Stevie Nicks will launch her new Instagram account on Monday, August 4, by sharing songs from her upcoming solo album 24 Karat Gold — Songs from the Vault.  The media campaign strategically coincides with Fleetwood Mac’s fall tour, which kicks off in Minneapolis on September 30, the day after a limited edition double vinyl version of 24 Karat Gold — Songs from the Vault will be available to purchase (on September 29). Also available will be a Deluxe Photobook CD, which will include two bonus tracks, as well as 48 pages of exclusive photos from Stevie’s personal collection.

Stevie’s media team has been busy promoting 24 Karat Gold on social media, posting regular updates to Facebook and Twitter. The album, with newly-recorded demos dating back to the late 1960s, features many songs that longtime fans have collected on tapes and CDs for decades. Among them are the title track and “Starshine Silver.”

24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault is available on iTunes and CD on Tuesday, October 7. Preorders for all formats begin on Monday, August 5.

Stevie Nicks to Release New Album 24 Karat Gold — Songs from the Vault in October

Kristin Burns/Warner Bros.Stevie Nicks hinted earlier this year that she might release some older songs that had never seen the light of day. Now, she’s making good on that tease: her new album 24 Karat Gold — Songs from the Vault is due October 7.

According to Stevie, the album features mostly songs written between 1969 and 1987, with two that were written in 1994 and 1995. “Each song is a lifetime. Each song has a soul. Each song has a purpose. Each song is a love story,” she says in a statement. “They represent my life behind the scenes, the secrets, the broken hearts, the broken-hearted and the survivors. These songs are the memories — the 24 karat gold rings in the blue box. These songs are for you.”

The artwork for the album includes never-before-seen Polaroid photos taken by Stevie throughout her career.

24 Karat Gold — Songs from the Vault is available for pre-order starting August 5. That same day, Stevie will debut her new, official Instagram account, StevieNicksOfficial, where she’ll begin previewing snippets of the music.

In addition, a limited edition double vinyl version of 24 Karat Gold — Songs from the Vault will come out September 29. Also available will be a Deluxe Photobook CD, which will include two bonus tracks, as well as 48 pages of exclusive photos from Stevie’s personal collection.

Stevie and Fleetwood Mac will hit the road for their On with the Show tour — featuring the return of Christine McVie — starting September 30 in Minneapolis.

Andrea Dresdale / ABC News Radio / Thursday, July 24, 2014

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• Rock on, Gold Dust Woman: Stevie Nicks’ new album drops Oct. 7 (AXS.com)
• Stevie Nicks confirms October release for 24 Karat Gold (Billboard)
• Stevie Nicks raids vault for solo effort (Classic Rock)
• Stevie Nicks reveals details of new solo album (Elmore Magazine)
• Stevie Nicks to release new solo CD 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault Oct. 7 (Hollywood Reporter)
• Stevie Nicks details release plans for new solo album 24 Karat Gold (Rolling Stone)
• Stevie Nicks mines the past for 24 Karat Gold album (USA Today)

Stevie Nicks has a new Instagram account, according to her official Facebook page. Stevie will share new music from her upcoming solo album every week beginning August 5.

On Wednesday, the alleged track list for Stevie’s upcoming solo release 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault surfaced on Wikipedia. The listing alleges that Warner Bros. Records confirmed the following 16-track collection of favorite fan demos, that Stevie discovered on YouTube. The entry has since been removed from Wikipedia. Whether the curious offering is legitimate or a hoax remains to be seen. 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault will be out in October.

UNVERIFIED 24 Karat Gold Track List

01. 24 Karat Gold
02. Gold and Braid
03. The Black Space Needle
04. Something Exquisite
05. Star Shine Silver
06. Priest of Nothing
07. My Sanctuary, My Stronghold
08. All the Beautiful Worlds
09. I Call You Missing
10. The Maker of Birds – Rhiannon’s First Song
11. The Forest of the Black Roses – Rhiannon’s Second Song
12. The Forsaken Love – Rhiannon’s Final Song
13. Cecelia
14. The Charmed Ones Remain
15. Turnstile
16. Blue Water (The Sound of My Gypsy)

Producer Dave Stewart has shared short teaser clips of tracks from Stevie’s forthcoming album 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault.

New song

“Rocking out on Sunday morning!” (Dave Stewart via Facebook, June 22, 2014)

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New song

(Dave Stewart via Facebook, June 19, 2014)
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Starshine Silver

(Dave Stewart via Facebook, May 31, 2014)
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Stevie and Dave are currently in Los Angeles putting finishing touches on the new album, which is due out in October.

It’s proving to be a very busy year for the legendary Stevie Nicks. Not only is she about to head out on tour with a reunited Fleetwood Mac, but she’s also in the midst of finishing up her own new solo album.

Tentatively titled 24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault, Nicks’ forthcoming collection includes lost and stray tracks that she’s written and recorded through the years, but never made it onto an album. The selections for 24 Karat Gold were all newly recorded, and co-produced by Nicks, Dave Stewart and Waddy Wachtel.

Nicks’ publicist, Liz Rosenberg, says that Nicks hopes to release the album in October on Reprise/Warner Bros. Records. She recently recorded the “24 Karat” tunes in Nashville, and will continue working on the album in Los Angeles.

(The album title presumably refers to Nicks’ song “24 Karat Gold,” which is widely available on YouTube as a bootleg.)

Nicks says that she just recorded “18 tracks in three weeks” for the album — saying that it’s the “fastest I have ever recorded.”

She made those comments last night during her acceptance speech at the BMI Pop Awards in Los Angeles, where she was honored with the BMI Icon award for her songwriting achievements. Nicks has written or co-written many of her solo hit singles, including “Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove)” and “Stand Back.” As part of the band Fleetwood Mac, Nicks wrote or co-wrote such favorites as “Landslide,” “Rhiannon” and the No. 1 the Billboard Hot 100 hit “Dreams.”

“We went onto YouTube and we found all the songs that, somehow, were taken from my house or picked up or loaned out or whatever … and we went to Nashville (and recorded them),” Nicks told the Associated Press. “So they’re like all starting from like 1969 maybe? I call them my 24 karat gold songs.”

There’s no word on if 24 Karat Gold will feature any special guests, however, with Nicks having been in a collaborative mood lately, one never knows who might turn up on the set. Recently, Nicks performed with Lady Antebellum on the Academy of Country Music Awards (April 6) and on CMT Crossroads (Sept. 13, 2013), as well as with Dave Grohl on the Sound City soundtrack (2013).

24 Karat Gold follows Nicks’ last studio effort, 2011’s In Your Dreams, which was also co-produced by Stewart. It debuted and peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart and has sold 199,000 in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Fleetwood Mac, meanwhile, is also working on new music and will kick off a concert tour starting Sept. 30 in Minneapolis. It will be the band’s first trek with singer/songwriter Christine McVie since The Dance Tour in 1997.

Keith Caulfield / Billboard / Wednesday, May 14, 2014