Christine Perfect - I'm On My Way (1970) - vinyl

Details

Description

#christineperfect #imonmyway #bluesrock
I'm not the owner of this song. All credits goes to the owners.

This audio-video recording was made with:
Sony DSC-W270 Cybershot
Lenco L-90 with Ortofon OM 5E
Numark C3 Professional
Focusrite Scarlet2i4
Audacity 2.3.2

This track is from Fleetwood Mac & Christine Perfect vinyl album "Albatross" released at 1984 in Europe by CBS Records. (CBS ‎– CBS 32270)

Lyrics

I was a fool when I left you I should have known
To find a good man was a hard thing to do but temptation got the best of me
So there's nothing I can say except if you let me come home to stay
I'm on my way I'm on my way
I must have been blind to go away and leave you behind
But can you find it in your heart to forgive me and try one more time
I want a chance to do things your way
So there's nothing I can say except if you let me come home to stay
I'm on my way I'm on my way
I've had my little run out and I know you I can't do without
But give me a chance and I'll be more to you than just a pair of hands
I'll do whatever whatever whatever you want me to
Because I feel yes I feel I owe that much to you
But there's nothing I can say except if you let me come home to stay
I'm on my way
If you let me come home I'm on my way
If you let me come home I'm on my way
If you let me come home I'm on my way

With her naturally smoky low alto vocal style and a knack for writing simple, direct, and memorable songs about the joys and pitfalls of love, Christine McVie has had a long and productive musical career while seldom insisting on being center stage. Born Christine Anne Perfect on July 12, 1943, in the small village of Bouth, the daughter of a concert violinist and a faith healer, a combination that just begs for uniqueness, McVie began playing the piano at the age of four and then found herself seriously studying the instrument at the age of 11, continuing her classical training until she was 15. That’s when she discovered rock & roll. While studying sculpture at an arts college near Birmingham for the next five years, she immersed herself in the local music scene, joining the band Sounds of Blue as a bassist. By the time McVie graduated with a teaching degree, Sounds of Blue had broken up, and she moved to London. In 1968 she reunited with two of the band’s former members, Andy Silvester and Stan Webb, in the British blues band Chicken Shack, playing piano and contributing vocals. The band released two albums, 40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve in 1968 and O.K. Ken? in 1969, and garnered a Top 20 hit in the U.K. with McVie’s impressive version of Etta James’ “I’d Rather Go Blind.” She left the band in 1969 after meeting Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie, marrying him a year later, just after the release of her first solo album, the self-titled Christine Perfect.

Following the marriage, and now known as Christine McVie, she joined Fleetwood Mac as a pianist and singer and remained a member for the next 25 years, becoming a superstar in 1975 as part of the Lindsey Buckingham/Stevie Nicks version of the band. She and John McVie divorced in 1978, although both continued as members of Fleetwood Mac through the albums Tusk (1979) and Mirage (1982). She recorded and released a second solo album, simply called Christine McVie, in 1984. She married keyboardist Eddy Quintela in 1986. They would separate four years later in 1990 (and divorce later in the decade), just as the band -- minus Buckingham -- released Behind the Mask. Following the tour for that album, McVie announced to the band that she would no longer go on the road, although she continued to work in the studio with them, contributing five songs to 1995’s Time. A reunion of the Buckingham/Nicks incarnation of the band for 1997’s live The Dance followed, and McVie did the resulting tour with the group before officially retiring from Fleetwood Mac in 1998 after the group’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that year. She then lived quietly out of the music limelight until the release of her third solo album, In the Meantime, in 2004.
In 2006, McVie was awarded the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors' Gold Badge of Merit.

See more at: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/christine-mcvie-mn0000123915/biography