Most fans already know the fabled origin story, but it’s worth looking back. In 1974, while scouting studios for the next Fleetwood Mac album, drummer Mick Fleetwood walked into LA’s Sound City, where producer Keith Olsen played him “Frozen Love,” a symphonic folk rock epic written and recorded by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Blown away by the intricate guitar-playing and overall musicality, Fleetwood’s jaw dropped—he eventually invited the duo to join his band, changing everyone’s lives in the process. But Buckingham Nicks, the parent album to “Frozen Love,” has always deserved to be more than a footnote in a rock legend. Rhino’s new, expertly remastered set—the record’s first reissue on CD and vinyl—at least gives this unsung classic a fighting chance. Even with the widened spotlight, it’ll never burrow into the pop conscience on the level of Fleetwood Mac—the white colored blockbuster that spawned “Landslide” and “Rhiannon”—but at least now we’re not all swapping the same scratched-up LP copies. Buckingham Nicks was the first real sample of the duo’s brilliance, and it’s amazing how emerged so fully formed. Sure, some of the words lack emotional depth, particularly for a lyricist on Nicks’ level (“Come on, baby/ She’s the wrong kind of girl/ She’s a come on lady/ She’s a tarnished pearl,” she sings, blandly, on the otherwise thrilling “Crying in the Night”). But you’re still left awestruck, just like Mick Fleetwood, at the sonic architecture of Buckingham’s guitar orchestration (the ornately fingerpicked “Stephanie”) and the pair’s yearning harmonies.