[1] "Walk a Thin Line" was inspired by a Charlie Watts drum fill on "Sway", from the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers.
[4] Ed Harrison of Billboard labelled "Walk a Thin Line" as Buckingham's "most moving ballad" on Tusk and highlighted the song's vocal harmonies.
[6] Stephen Holden Rolling Stone was more positive in his assessment and singled out "Walk a Thin Line" as one of Buckingham's more commercial tracks on Tusk.
[7] While Mitch Cohen of Creem magazine dismissed most of Buckingham's compositions on Tusk as "Barthelme-dull sketches buried in thump and clangor", he thought that "Walk a Thin Line" was an exception to this and called the track "ethereal".
"[13] At the beginning of the Mirage recording sessions, Fleetwood presented his own version of "Walk a Thin Line" to Lindsey Buckingham, the original writer of the song.
Fleetwood said that he remembered "sitting Lindsey down and playing him that song" and said that he was "really moved hearing our crazy band from Africa doing one of his tracks.