“She seems really smart and honest and confident but also into stuff like HGTV and Twilight. That appeals to me.” Credit: KRISTIN BURNS

“She seems really smart and honest and confident but also into stuff like HGTV and Twilight. That appeals to me.”

“She seems really smart and honest and confident but also into stuff like HGTV and Twilight. That appeals to me.” KRISTIN BURNS

First, there’s the voice: wistful, silky, tinged equally with the hope of love and the resignation of heartbreak. Then there’s the life—a relentless roller coaster of drama, romance, and rock in a little band called Fleetwood Mac and a prodigious 30-year solo career. And of course, there’s the look, which promises to keep velvet boots and chiffon shawls on vintage-store shelves in perpetuity.

These elements (and a few other, occasionally more sordid, ones) add up to Stevie Nicks, whose stylistic and musical profile has enjoyed a big resurgence in the past few years.

In advance of Nicks’s Seattle appearance on Sunday, December 11, at KeyArena, and a tribute night at Pony on Thursday, December 15, we’ve rounded up a few Seattle musicians to talk about her influence on their life, musically and otherwise.