PERSONNEL:
Danny Kirwan (guitar, vocals)
Bob Welch (guitar, vocals)
Christine McVie (piano, vocals)
John McVie (bass)
Mick Fleetwood (drums)
Produced By Fleetwood Mac
SINGLES:
- Sands of Time/
Lay It All Down (November 1971)
SONGS:
1. Woman of a Thousand Years - 8:20 (Kirwan)
2. Morning Rain - 6:22 (C. McVie)
3. What a Shame - 2:12 (Welch/Fleetwood/Kirwan/McVie/McVie)
4. Future Games - 8:15 (Welch)
5. Sands of Time - 7:35 (Kirwan)
6. Sometimes - 6:25 (Kirwan)
7. Lay It All Down - 4:22 (Welch)
8. Show Me a Smile - 3:19 (C. McVie)
REVIEWS:
B "These white blues (and hippie rockabilly) veterans shouldn't have to depend on new recruit Bob Welch's deftly metallized r&b extrapolation for rock and roll, but unless you count the studio jam, they do (ed.: no they don't). And
if the best song on the album isn't the slowest, that's only because Welch also has mystagogic tendencies. It's the simplest in any case: Christine Perfect's 'Show Me a Smile.'" -Robert Christgau, Village Voice
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"Future Games and Bare Trees saw Mac gaining its sea legs in the pop-rock field, with McVie supplying the feminine warmth
to contrast Kirwan's more austere moodiness. The combination made the two best work until Phase Three (ed.: aka Rumours
era)." - John Swenson and John Milward, Rolling Stone
