The Pious Bird of Good Omen

The Pious Bird of Good Omen
Compilation album by
Released1 August 1969
RecordedSeptember 1967, January–April & October 1968
GenreBlues rock
Length36:00
LabelBlue Horizon
ProducerMike Vernon
Fleetwood Mac albums chronology
Mr. Wonderful
(1968)
The Pious Bird of Good Omen
(1969)
Then Play On
(1969)
Fleetwood Mac chronology
English Rose
(1968)
The Pious Bird of Good Omen
(1969)
Black Magic Woman
(1971)
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The Pious Bird of Good Omen is a compilation album by the British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1969. It consists of their first four non-album UK singles and their B-sides, one track from their first album Fleetwood Mac, two tracks from their second album Mr. Wonderful, and two tracks by the blues artist Eddie Boyd with backing by members of Fleetwood Mac. These came from Boyd's album 7936 South Rhodes.

The album was released under the Blue Horizon, which had published all of their material up until the "Man of the World" single, which was instead issued by Immediate Records. By the time Pious Bird of Good Omen was released, the band had left Immediate Records and were searching for a new record label.

The Pious Bird of Good Omen was not released in the US. The closest US equivalent is the English Rose compilation album, released in December 1968 and sharing four songs with Pious Bird.

In 2002, the album was repackaged by Sony BMG as Greatest Hits with cover art very closely resembling the 1971 Greatest Hits album, and with "Shake Your Moneymaker" and "Love That Burns" added to the track listing. In 2004, when Fleetwood Mac's Blue Horizon era albums were remastered, Pious Bird was reconfigured to remove tracks from the previous two Mac albums and the Boyd tracks, which were replaced by archival recordings from the 1967 and 1968 period.