Sleeve Design: Modula / John Watkins (front cover) / Chris Moore. Producer: Fleetwood Mac and Martin Birch. Peter Green – additional lead guitar on track 8. Russell Valdez – steel drums on track 7. Ralph Richardson – steel drums on track 7. Dave Walker – vocals on tracks 4 and 5, harmonica on track 4. Bob Weston – lead guitar, slide guitar on track 1, banjo and harmonica on track 5, harmony vocals on track 7. Bob Welch – guitar, vocals, bass guitar on track 6. "Caught in the Rain", an instrumental, was the only track on a Fleetwood Mac record where Bob Weston received the sole writing credit.īrian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland, Jr. "Night Watch" features a brief guitar contribution from Fleetwood Mac's founder Peter Green at the end. "Did You Ever Love Me" was released as a single but did not chart. "Revelation" was re-recorded by Bob Welch for His Fleetwood Mac Years & Beyond in 2003. This version appeared on the 2004 CD Live from the Roxy. "Remember Me" was performed live by Christine McVie at Bob Welch's Roxy concert in 1981. Walker was featured on only two tracks on Penguin in the end, namely his own composition "The Derelict" and a cover of Junior Walker's hit " (I'm a) Road Runner" on which he also played harmonica solos. If anything was ever recorded by Walker for Mystery to Me it was not used. However, during the recording of their next album, Mystery to Me, it was mutually agreed upon that Walker's vocal style and attitude "did not fit in" with Fleetwood Mac and by June 1973 he had left. The subsequent tour seemed to go well, and Penguin was the highest charting Fleetwood Mac album in the US at the time, clawing its way into the Top 50. For the first time on a Fleetwood Mac album, Mick Fleetwood was credited in the album's liner notes with playing both drums and percussion, even though he did both on previous albums, although uncredited. 
The album's artwork was painted by Chris Moore and the gatefold photo was shot on location at Ludshott Common and Waggoners Wells in Hampshire, according to Dave Walker in an online Q&A interview.
The album was subsequently mixed at AIR Studios in London. Rather than recording Penguin in a London studio, they hired the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio and brought it to Hampshire in order to record their next album within the domestic atmosphere of Benifold, their communal house.
Fleetwood Mac also hired Savoy Brown's road manager, John Courage. Weston was well known for playing slide guitar and had known the band from his touring period with Long John Baldry. After Kirwan was fired following an altercation with the other band members during the Bare Trees tour, the band added guitarist Bob Weston and vocalist Dave Walker (formerly of Savoy Brown and The Idle Race) in September 1972.
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