After Fleetwood Mac
Spencer and his then-wife Fiona moved to the USA to settle in with the Children of God, and he soon formed a new band within the organisation and played free concerts around the country. An album was recorded, Jeremy Spencer and the Children, although without any commercial success. Relatively little is known about this period of his life, but he travelled the world recording a considerable amount of music for the purposes of the organisation, and moved to Brazil in 1975 and then to Italy in 1977.
In 1978, a member of the Children of God hired Martin and Steven Machat to represent Spencer and his new band. The Machats then secured them a major record deal with Atlantic Records in New York. In 1978–79, the newly-formed Jeremy Spencer Band recorded the album Flee, which had a little commercial success. During the 1980s Spencer lived in the Philippines, before working in India in the 1990s, holding charity concerts. He later lived in Ireland and then Germany, and still works for the Children of God (now called the Family International), mainly as a book illustrator and story writer. He has always continued to play music, often just for his own amusement, but recently he has appeared at various blues and gospel conventions, and in 2006 he released a new album, Precious Little, which was recorded in Norway. The album showed a return to the blues and the slide guitar style that he became famous for whilst he was with Fleetwood Mac, albeit with a more gentle touch.
Spencer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 for his work as part of Fleetwood Mac.
More recently, Spencer has been in contact with his former Fleetwood Mac bandmates Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, and according to McVie, the three had informal jam sessions with Rick Vito at Fleetwood's home. Spencer also took part in the TV documentary Peter Green: Man of the World, in which he was interviewed together with John McVie and Mick Fleetwood.
In 2012, Spencer released a new album, Bend in the Road, which was recorded at Tempermill Studios in Ferndale, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit).
Spencer occasionally teams up with Detroit area musicians for live performances. Among those are, Brett Lucas (Bettye LaVette), Todd Glass, James Simonson, Pete Berg, Steve Allen, and Kirk Barkel.
Several of Spencer's children formed a band in England called JYNXT. The current band members include Nat, Koa, and Tally Spencer.
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