Under the Skin is the fourth solo album by American musician and Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac

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 vocalist/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Adams Buckingham is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being the guitarist and male lead singer of the musical group Fleetwood Mac. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released six solo albums and a live album...

, released on October 3, 2006. The album, long delayed by Fleetwood Mac's reunion tour

The Dance (album)

The Dance is a live performance by Fleetwood Mac, released on Cassette, CD and VHS in 1997, and later on DVD. It hailed the return of the band's most successful line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie and Stevie Nicks, who had not released an album together since...

 in the 1990s

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 and 2003

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 album Say You Will

Say You Will

Say You Will is the 17th album by British/American band Fleetwood Mac, released in 2003. It was the first Fleetwood Mac album in 34 years not to include tracks written by vocalist/keyboardist Christine McVie, who had left the group in 1998. McVie is featured on two songs, which had been originally...

, was his first solo release in 14 years. Under the Skin peaked at #80 on the Billboard 200

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album chart in October 2006.

Track listing

1. "Not Too Late" (Buckingham) – 4:42
2. "Show You How" (Buckingham) – 4:21
3. "Under the Skin" (Buckingham) – 3:56
4. "I Am Waiting" (Mick Jagger
   Mick Jagger
   Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
   
   , Keith Richards
   Keith Richards
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   ) – 3:34
5. "It Was You" (Buckingham) – 2:48
6. "To Try for the Sun
   To Try for the Sun
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   " (Donovan
   Donovan
   Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...
   
   ) – 3:14
7. "Cast Away Dreams" (Buckingham) – 4:28
8. "Shut Us Down" (Buckingham, Cory Sipper) – 3:57
9. "Down on Rodeo" (Buckingham) – 4:27
10. "Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind" (Buckingham) – 4:48
11. "Flying Down Juniper" (Buckingham) - 4:43
12. "Go Your Own Way" (Buckingham) - 4:56 (iTunes only bonus track)

Gift of Screws

Tracks 6, 9 and 10 were originally to have appeared on Buckingham's aborted 1990s solo album Gift of Screws. Other songs from this unreleased project appeared on Fleetwood Mac's Say You Will and Buckingham's 2008 solo release Gift of Screws

Gift Of Screws

Gift of Screws is the fifth solo album by American musician and Fleetwood Mac vocalist/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, and was released on September 15, 2008.-Album history:The album title existed as a solo album set for release in 2001 by Reprise Records...

.

Credits

Main Performer

• Lindsey Buckingham
  Lindsey Buckingham
  Lindsey Adams Buckingham is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being the guitarist and male lead singer of the musical group Fleetwood Mac. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released six solo albums and a live album...
  
   - Guitar
  Guitar
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  , bass
  Bass guitar
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  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , vocals
  Singing
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Additional personnel

• John McVie
  John McVie
  John Graham McVie is a British bass guitarist best known as a member of the rock group Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of Mick Fleetwood, was the inspiration for the band's name...
  
   - Bass (Track 9)
• Mick Fleetwood
  Mick Fleetwood
  Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood is a British musician and actor best known for his role as the drummer and namesake of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of John McVie, was the inspiration for the name of the originally Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac...
  
   - Percussion, drums
  Drum kit
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   (Tracks 9 & 10)
• David Campbell - Orchestration (Track 10)

Production

• Producers: Lindsey Buckingham, Rob Cavallo
• Engineers: Lindsey Buckingham
• Mixing: Lindsey Buckingham, Mark Needham (Tracks 9 & 10)
• Mastering: Brain "Big Bass" Gardner
• Photography: Frank Ockenfels III, Lindsey Buckingham
• Art Direction: Stephen Walker