Lindsey Buckingham Plays Fleetwood Mac

Soft rock is a mellow, melody-forward strain of rock and pop that favors smooth vocals, polished production, and restrained dynamics over distortion and aggression.

Rock is a broad family of popular music centered on amplified instruments, a strong backbeat, and song forms that foreground riffs, choruses, and anthemic hooks.

Blues is an African American musical tradition defined by expressive "blue notes," call-and-response phrasing, and a characteristic use of dominant-seventh harmony in cyclical song forms (most famously the 12‑bar blues). It is as much a feeling as a form, conveying sorrow, resilience, humor, and…