Imagine founding a band, writing the songs that put it on the map, standing on the edge of global stardom, and then walking away because the money felt wrong. That is the story of Peter Green, the founder of Fleetwood Mac. This episode follows the self-taught East London guitarist from replacing Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at 19 to forming a band he named after his rhythm section, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, before McVie had even agreed to join.

We explore the tone B.B. King said gave him the cold sweats, the controlled feedback of "The Supernatural," the songwriting burst that produced "Black Magic Woman," "Albatross," "Man of the World," and "The Green Manalishi," and the out-of-phase 1959 Les Paul known as Greeny that later passed to Gary Moore and Kirk Hammett. Then we examine the March 1970 night at a commune near Mu ...