Around the time that Buckingham's
Seeds We Sow solo album was released in 2011, Buckingham had expressed interest in working on a new Fleetwood Mac album. He approached
Stevie Nicks about the matter, although she was unwilling to fully commit to the project. Buckingham then invited
John McVie and
Mick Fleetwood from Hawaii and recorded eight new songs with
Mitchell Froom serving as producer. Buckingham commented that he selected songs with that he believed would be suitable for Nicks' vocal range. Nicks was in bereavement following the death of her mother and did not attend these sessions. When Nicks presented "Without You" to Buckingham, the initial idea was to use the song for Fleetwood Mac, although by December 2012, Nicks was more interested in putting the track on a re-release of the
Buckingham Nicks album. One song on the album, "It Takes Time", was recorded as piano ballad. Buckingham commented that the song was about reflecting on past decisions from a more objective perspective, which he related to his relationship with Nicks. He added that "there were times in the past when maybe I could have shown her a little more love or shown her a way to make her process a bit easier. From the first day of rehearsal, I had that in mind." Fleetwood wrote in his 2014 memoir
Play On that the song was a "poignant" commentary on the relationship between Buckingham and Nicks, saying that it was "a homecoming to their story because it's entirely an apology to her, which is beautiful and heartbreaking." While the EP was only available digitally without any promotion and no physical CD version was ever released, "Extended Play" still reached No. 48 on the
Billboard 200 albums chart and sold 9,000 copies in its first week. However, the next week, it left the chart entirely. It also charted at No. 14 on the Top Digital Albums chart, No. 9 on the Top Independent Albums chart, and No. 13 on the Top Rock Albums chart. ==Track listing==