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Trouble in Shangri-La
Trouble in Shangri-La is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks. Released on May 1, 2001, it was her first solo studio album since 1994's Street Angel. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, Nicks' highest peak since 1983's The Wild Heart, selling 109,000 copies in its first week. It remained in the top 10 the following week at number nine, with 76,000 additional copies sold. Trouble in Shangri-La spent a total of 20 weeks on the chart, and was certified Gold by the RIAA within six weeks of release for shipments of 500,000 units. As of February 2011, it has sold over 663,000 copies in the United States.
Three singles were released: "Every Day", "Planets of the Universe", and "Sorcerer". The album's release was followed by the Trouble in Shangri-La Tour, which became the 27th highest-grossing tour of 2001, earning $14.1 million from 38 shows.
After the muted reception to her previous album, Street Angel, and a crushing bout of writer's block caused by Klonopin dependency between 1987 and 1994, Nicks asked close friend Tom Petty to help her write and record a new album. Petty advised her that she did not need any help and to have more faith in her own abilities, which Nicks recounts in the track "That Made Me Stronger".
Nicks proceeded to write the title track to the album and the closing song "Love Is", Then, while crafting a track for the 1996 movie Twister, titled "Twisted", she was reunited with former lover and Fleetwood Mac frontman, Lindsey Buckingham: part of a chain of events that led to a reunion of the Rumours line-up of the band in 1997.
One of the tracks on the album, "Fall from Grace", recounts the ever-troubled relationship between Fleetwood Mac members as experienced during that 1997 reunion, which nonetheless culminated in the multi-platinum live album The Dance. This turbulent experience was a nine-month interruption to the recording of Shangri-La but it inspired Nicks to pen this track, and another, "Thrown Down", which, although recorded for her solo album, ultimately surfaced in a newer version on the 2003 Fleetwood Mac release Say You Will.
Following promotion for her 1998 3-disc retrospective Enchanted and an accompanying tour (both at the insistence of her former label Atlantic, who wanted to capitalise on the 1997 reunion of Fleetwood Mac, and complete Nicks' six-album deal), Nicks finally continued to record Shangri-La, enlisting the help of Sheryl Crow, who had long been a fan of Nicks. The pair worked on a couple of tracks that would end up on the soundtrack to the movie Practical Magic (see below), but Crow also contributed the song "It's Only Love", and performed on and coproduced other tracks. "The first time she sang in front of me," Crow recalled, "I nearly dropped to the floor." The two became good friends and Nicks, in return, performed on Crow's 2002 album C'mon C'mon, including writing and providing lyrics for the b-side song "You're Not the One". The pair have also performed on stage together numerous times since the 1990s.
When Crow's career commitments in 1999 prevented her from completing work on the album, Nicks initially produced one track, "Bombay Sapphires", alone. At the suggestion of their mutual management company, Macy Gray performed backing vocals. Nicks enlisted John Shanks for coproduction duties on tracks still to be recorded. He had previously sent her a demo of a track he had cowritten with Damon Johnson, "Every Day", which she liked; this was the first track the pair then recorded at Shanks's home. The track would also be released to radio as a single. Johnson recorded his own version for his album Release in 2010. Shanks is also notable for helping Nicks to finally record a completed studio version of her 1976 composition "Planets of the Universe" after failed attempts over the years with other producers. It was the last track to be completed for the album in late 2000, and went all the way to #1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
The dragon that is used for the "S" in Nicks' name on the album cover (and also appears elsewhere on the disc art) was drawn by Sarah McLachlan, who provides keyboards and background vocals on the album's closing track, "Love Is".
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Trouble in Shangri-La
Trouble in Shangri-La is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks. Released on May 1, 2001, it was her first solo studio album since 1994's Street Angel. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, Nicks' highest peak since 1983's The Wild Heart, selling 109,000 copies in its first week. It remained in the top 10 the following week at number nine, with 76,000 additional copies sold. Trouble in Shangri-La spent a total of 20 weeks on the chart, and was certified Gold by the RIAA within six weeks of release for shipments of 500,000 units. As of February 2011, it has sold over 663,000 copies in the United States.
Three singles were released: "Every Day", "Planets of the Universe", and "Sorcerer". The album's release was followed by the Trouble in Shangri-La Tour, which became the 27th highest-grossing tour of 2001, earning $14.1 million from 38 shows.
After the muted reception to her previous album, Street Angel, and a crushing bout of writer's block caused by Klonopin dependency between 1987 and 1994, Nicks asked close friend Tom Petty to help her write and record a new album. Petty advised her that she did not need any help and to have more faith in her own abilities, which Nicks recounts in the track "That Made Me Stronger".
Nicks proceeded to write the title track to the album and the closing song "Love Is", Then, while crafting a track for the 1996 movie Twister, titled "Twisted", she was reunited with former lover and Fleetwood Mac frontman, Lindsey Buckingham: part of a chain of events that led to a reunion of the Rumours line-up of the band in 1997.
One of the tracks on the album, "Fall from Grace", recounts the ever-troubled relationship between Fleetwood Mac members as experienced during that 1997 reunion, which nonetheless culminated in the multi-platinum live album The Dance. This turbulent experience was a nine-month interruption to the recording of Shangri-La but it inspired Nicks to pen this track, and another, "Thrown Down", which, although recorded for her solo album, ultimately surfaced in a newer version on the 2003 Fleetwood Mac release Say You Will.
Following promotion for her 1998 3-disc retrospective Enchanted and an accompanying tour (both at the insistence of her former label Atlantic, who wanted to capitalise on the 1997 reunion of Fleetwood Mac, and complete Nicks' six-album deal), Nicks finally continued to record Shangri-La, enlisting the help of Sheryl Crow, who had long been a fan of Nicks. The pair worked on a couple of tracks that would end up on the soundtrack to the movie Practical Magic (see below), but Crow also contributed the song "It's Only Love", and performed on and coproduced other tracks. "The first time she sang in front of me," Crow recalled, "I nearly dropped to the floor." The two became good friends and Nicks, in return, performed on Crow's 2002 album C'mon C'mon, including writing and providing lyrics for the b-side song "You're Not the One". The pair have also performed on stage together numerous times since the 1990s.
When Crow's career commitments in 1999 prevented her from completing work on the album, Nicks initially produced one track, "Bombay Sapphires", alone. At the suggestion of their mutual management company, Macy Gray performed backing vocals. Nicks enlisted John Shanks for coproduction duties on tracks still to be recorded. He had previously sent her a demo of a track he had cowritten with Damon Johnson, "Every Day", which she liked; this was the first track the pair then recorded at Shanks's home. The track would also be released to radio as a single. Johnson recorded his own version for his album Release in 2010. Shanks is also notable for helping Nicks to finally record a completed studio version of her 1976 composition "Planets of the Universe" after failed attempts over the years with other producers. It was the last track to be completed for the album in late 2000, and went all the way to #1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
The dragon that is used for the "S" in Nicks' name on the album cover (and also appears elsewhere on the disc art) was drawn by Sarah McLachlan, who provides keyboards and background vocals on the album's closing track, "Love Is".