Lindsey Buckingham’s new album is titled Seeds We Sow.

Jeremy Cowart

Lindsey Buckingham helped make Fleetwood Mac one of the biggest rock bands of all time. He works mostly solo today, and his sixth solo album, Seeds We Sow, just came out.

Buckingham takes the “solo” designation seriously: He wrote, produced and engineered the album himself, as well as playing most of the instruments. He tells Weekend Edition Saturday‘s Scott Simon that the effects of that approach come through in the music.

“You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a conscious, verbalized and, to some degree, political process,” he says. “I think when you work alone — the way I do it, anyway — you could sort of liken it to painting, where there’s sort of a one-on-one with the canvas. And you get different results.” Continue reading Lindsey Buckingham: A Time To Every Purpose →