STEVIE NICKS : NEW JERSEY 1983

1. Gold Dust Woman
2. Outside the Rain
3. Dreams
4. Gold and Braid
5. I Need to Know
6. Sara
7. Enchanted
8. If Anyone Falls
9. Leather and Lace
10. Stand Back
11. Beauty and the Beast
12. Gypsy
13. How Still My Love
14. Stop Dragging My Heart Around

Label : Homespun

Venue : Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA

Recording Date : June 24, 1983

Length : 80:20

Quality : FM recording (A+)

Review : New Jersey 1983 documents a live radio broadcast that Stevie Nicks delivered on June 24, 1983, at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey, while she was out on the road promoting her second solo record, The Wild Heart. The set mixes highlights from her still-young solo career with several of the Fleetwood Mac songs most closely tied to her, giving the show a balance between the two sides of her musical identity. Backed by a full touring band, Nicks moves from the brooding "Gold Dust Woman" and the wistful "Dreams" through solo staples such as "I Need to Know," "Leather and Lace," and "Stand Back," while "Sara," "Gypsy" and "Stop Dragging My Heart Around" reconnect the set with her work alongside Fleetwood Mac. Between songs, band introductions and stage banter give a sense of the easy rapport she had with both her musicians and the crowd that night. As a period radio recording rather than a polished studio release, the album works best as a snapshot of Nicks at the height of her early-80s popularity, captured in the kind of raw, unfiltered performance that studio albums rarely offer.