Stevie Nicks wrote “Silver Springs” for the Rumours album, but it was bumped in favor of a shorter song, an omission forming one of the few, perhaps the only, Fleetwood Mac mistake in the creation of that wildly successful album. Richard Dashut, Rumours’s engineer and co-producer, has described the song as, “The best song that never made it to a record album.” In this live clip from The Dance, recorded more than 20 years after initial release, Stevie still sings it passionately to Lindsey Buckingham, the romantic loser about whom it was written. This ballad was still loaded with meaning then and remains so.
Here’s Songfacts entry and here’s Wikipedia in regards to the song.
