After this period, he returned to his home studio in Los Angeles, where he occasionally spent ten to eleven hours a day working on songs.

[10] Richard Dashut, who worked with Buckingham on many Fleetwood Mac albums, helped co-produce and co-write much of the material on Out of the Cradle.

Buckingham added that Dashut was "great with broad strokes and seeing the big picture" and said that he "tend[ed] to get lost in small details, so it's good to have him around.

"[13] Out of the Cradle contains multiple instrumental introductions to songs and two covers: "All My Sorrows" and "This Nearly Was Mine", the latter of which was a personal favorite of Buckingham's father.

[14] On "You Do Or You Don't", an original composition, Buckingham quoted a melodic line from "Theme From A Summer Place" as it matched the emotional tone that he envisioned.

"[6] The Washington Post declared: "The album's stories are told with music, and only Brian Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and a handful of others have made rock-and-roll as rich and powerful as this.

"[22] Of "Say We'll Meet Again", Magnet wrote that "Buckingham’s Beach Boys/Les Paul & Mary Ford fascination manifests itself on this spare and breezy ballad, which closes Out Of The Cradle in most gentle fashion.