Whitesnake - The Purple Album - Frontiers
By Jeffrey Easton
I have stated for years that the best era of Deep Purple was the 3 LP era that contained the talents of David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes and I will never back down from that assertion. Burn, Stormbringer and Come Taste The Band were three of the best albums that were birthed from the 70's and will always be classics. So here we are 40 years after that era ended and those albums are as needed as ever and David has taken the challenge of bringing the songs into the 21st century and after one listen he has done a great job. The Purple Album finds David searching for a way to pay tribute to the late Jon Lord and he has nailed. Those albums touched a lot of nerves back then because they meandered through assaulting hard rock to funk and soul like passages, Purple albums like no other and David was at the center of it. So here it is 2015 and what do they sound like now? They sound like honed diamonds, brought from a distant era and given a new sheen. Dave did not take them and make them sound like 2015, he just brought them to 2015 and made them sound like they belong here. The magic is still there and his band has weaved their magic across the tracks and they are holy. I have witnessed Glenn do Burn live and to here Coverdale bring his touch to the party is beyond amazing. You can sit back, close your eyes and put on Mistreated, Lady Double Dealer or the monolithic Mistreated and you are in another place, a place that’s right and rocks with authority. With material like Soldier Of Fortune and Stormbringer you can really feel the original emotion that David put into the stuff and still holds on to. There was not a single bad track on those albums and it must have been hard to pick from that trove of material but I hope David tapped what you liked because this is one amazing album. Purple does indeed live.
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By Jeffrey Easton
I have stated for years that the best era of Deep Purple was the 3 LP era that contained the talents of David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes and I will never back down from that assertion. Burn, Stormbringer and Come Taste The Band were three of the best albums that were birthed from the 70's and will always be classics. So here we are 40 years after that era ended and those albums are as needed as ever and David has taken the challenge of bringing the songs into the 21st century and after one listen he has done a great job. The Purple Album finds David searching for a way to pay tribute to the late Jon Lord and he has nailed. Those albums touched a lot of nerves back then because they meandered through assaulting hard rock to funk and soul like passages, Purple albums like no other and David was at the center of it. So here it is 2015 and what do they sound like now? They sound like honed diamonds, brought from a distant era and given a new sheen. Dave did not take them and make them sound like 2015, he just brought them to 2015 and made them sound like they belong here. The magic is still there and his band has weaved their magic across the tracks and they are holy. I have witnessed Glenn do Burn live and to here Coverdale bring his touch to the party is beyond amazing. You can sit back, close your eyes and put on Mistreated, Lady Double Dealer or the monolithic Mistreated and you are in another place, a place that’s right and rocks with authority. With material like Soldier Of Fortune and Stormbringer you can really feel the original emotion that David put into the stuff and still holds on to. There was not a single bad track on those albums and it must have been hard to pick from that trove of material but I hope David tapped what you liked because this is one amazing album. Purple does indeed live.
Official Whitesnake Site
BUY The Purple Album
BUY The Purple Album on Vinyl