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Kiln House
Kiln House is the fourth studio album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 18 September 1970 by Reprise Records. This is the first album after the departure of founder Peter Green, and their last album to feature guitarist Jeremy Spencer. Christine McVie was present at the recording sessions and contributed backing vocals, keyboards and cover art, although she was not a full member of the band until shortly after the album's completion, when she was to join the band for the album's accompanying tour.
The album peaked number 39 in the UK, becoming their last album to reach the top 40 in that country until their 1975 self-titled album. It also reached number 67 and number 69 in Canada and the United States, which up to that point was band's highest charting album in those respective countries.
Fleetwood Mac recorded after the departure of Peter Green, a founding member of Fleetwood Mac. Around the time of Green's final performance with the band on 28 May 1970, the remaining members regrouped by moving to the English countryside with their wives, children, and road managers. John McVie commented that "The legs went out from under us, and we were faced with a future without Peter."
The album title is taken from the name of two converted oast houses, known as Kiln House, in Truncheaunts Lane in East Worldham, near Alton, Hampshire. The oast houses had previously been used for drying hops for beer brewing and were later combined into one building. In 1977, the property became a listed building.
The band leased Kiln House and lived there communally with their families for a six-month period in 1970. Mick Fleetwood married Jenny Boyd at the house on 20 June 1970. McVie recalled that they spent some of their time smoking hashish and making tie-dye shirts at the property. The band converted one of the spaces within the facility into a music room. Boyd described the space as a converted barn and said that the band used the room to rehearse material. She recalled occasionally overhearing Kirwan singing wordless vocals over the music as they practiced. Spencer later recounted his memories recording the album in a Q&A.
I remember sitting with Mick, Danny and Christine in a small side room off the practice studio that occupied what decades ago used to be the oast-drying place for the making of beer and mulling over our future. All we knew, Danny and I, was that we had some material to record.
— Jeremy Spencer
The band spent two weeks recording Kiln House at De Lane Lea Studios. Christine McVie, who at the time was still known as Christine Perfect, lived in Kiln House with the band and participated in the album's recording sessions. She was signed to Blue Horizon as a solo artist and could not be credited as a musician in the liner notes of Kiln House due to contractual reasons. Clifford Davis, the band's manager, provided McVie with session money for her contributions.
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Kiln House
Kiln House is the fourth studio album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 18 September 1970 by Reprise Records. This is the first album after the departure of founder Peter Green, and their last album to feature guitarist Jeremy Spencer. Christine McVie was present at the recording sessions and contributed backing vocals, keyboards and cover art, although she was not a full member of the band until shortly after the album's completion, when she was to join the band for the album's accompanying tour.
The album peaked number 39 in the UK, becoming their last album to reach the top 40 in that country until their 1975 self-titled album. It also reached number 67 and number 69 in Canada and the United States, which up to that point was band's highest charting album in those respective countries.
Fleetwood Mac recorded after the departure of Peter Green, a founding member of Fleetwood Mac. Around the time of Green's final performance with the band on 28 May 1970, the remaining members regrouped by moving to the English countryside with their wives, children, and road managers. John McVie commented that "The legs went out from under us, and we were faced with a future without Peter."
The album title is taken from the name of two converted oast houses, known as Kiln House, in Truncheaunts Lane in East Worldham, near Alton, Hampshire. The oast houses had previously been used for drying hops for beer brewing and were later combined into one building. In 1977, the property became a listed building.
The band leased Kiln House and lived there communally with their families for a six-month period in 1970. Mick Fleetwood married Jenny Boyd at the house on 20 June 1970. McVie recalled that they spent some of their time smoking hashish and making tie-dye shirts at the property. The band converted one of the spaces within the facility into a music room. Boyd described the space as a converted barn and said that the band used the room to rehearse material. She recalled occasionally overhearing Kirwan singing wordless vocals over the music as they practiced. Spencer later recounted his memories recording the album in a Q&A.
I remember sitting with Mick, Danny and Christine in a small side room off the practice studio that occupied what decades ago used to be the oast-drying place for the making of beer and mulling over our future. All we knew, Danny and I, was that we had some material to record.
— Jeremy Spencer
The band spent two weeks recording Kiln House at De Lane Lea Studios. Christine McVie, who at the time was still known as Christine Perfect, lived in Kiln House with the band and participated in the album's recording sessions. She was signed to Blue Horizon as a solo artist and could not be credited as a musician in the liner notes of Kiln House due to contractual reasons. Clifford Davis, the band's manager, provided McVie with session money for her contributions.