[3][4] She said: Rolling Stone observed, "Nicks' tender yet vengeful post-mortem on her breakup with Buckingham [became] an emotional lightning rod.
[3] In a 1997 documentary on the making of Rumours, engineer and coproducer Richard Dashut called it "the best song that never made it to a record album".
[10] On a remastered edition of Rumours, issued in 2004, "Silver Springs" was included (as a previously unreleased, slightly longer 4:47 version) between "Songbird" and "The Chain".
[12] Nicks was particularly upset that "Silver Springs" initially generated little money for her mother, who was gifted publishing rights for the song in the 1970s.
Nicks said, "The fiery take on the song that appears in The Dance was 'for posterity… I wanted people to stand back and really watch and understand what [the relationship with Lindsey] was.
"[3] The live version of "Silver Springs" was released as a radio single in the United States on 22 July 1997, and it was physically issued in the Netherlands the same year.
[3][18] Jonathan Rush, a program director from WNOK, expressed skepticism that the live recording from The Dance would perform well commercially, saying that the song "doesn't jump off the radio like we'd like it to."