The Purple Album: Special Gold Edition (Revisited, Remixed, Remastered) Whitesnake

• 1 Burn (2023 Remix) 06:50
• 2 Lay Down, Stay Down (2023 Remix) 03:56
• 3 Love Child (2023 Remix) 04:13
• 4 Holy Man (2023 Remix) 04:48
• 5 The Gypsy (2023 Remix) 05:29
• 6 Lady Double Dealer (2023 Remix) 03:55
• 7 Might Just Take Your Life (2023 Remix) 04:36
• 8 Mistreated (2023 Remix) 07:37
• 9 Stormbringer (2023 Remix) 05:19
• 10 Sail Away (2023 Remix) 04:51
• 11 You Keep on Moving (2023 Remix) 05:11
• 12 Lady Luck (2023 Remix) 03:03
• 13 Coming Home (2023 Remix) 04:19
• 14 You Fool No One (2023 Remix) 06:41
• 15 Soldier of Fortune (2023 Remix) 03:21
• 16 Burn (Live) [2023 Remix] 08:13
• 17 The Gypsy (Live) [2023 Remix] 05:21
• 18 Mistreated (Live) [2023 Remix] 07:55
• 19 You Fool No One (Live) [2023 Remix] 09:39
• 20 Soldier of Fortune (Live) [2023 Remix] 03:53
• 21 Holy Man (Unzipped) [2023 Remix] 03:44
• 22 Stormbringer (Punch in the Nuts Mix) [2023 Remix] 05:19
• 23 Love Child (Alternate Mix) [2023 Remix] 04:13
• 24 Soldier of Fortune (feat. Joel Hoekstra & The Hook City Strings) 03:19
• 25 Soldier of Fortune (feat. The Hook City Strings) 03:18
• 26 Soldier of Fortune (feat. The Hook City Strings) [Instrumental] 03:18
• 27 Everybody's Talkin' 02:45
• 28 Get Ready 02:34
• 29 Lonely Town, Lonely Street 03:14
• 30 Dancing in the Street 04:32
• 31 1974 David Coverdale Demos / Ideas for Stormbringer Album 05:57
• Total Runtime 02:31:23

Info for The Purple Album: Special Gold Edition (Revisited, Remixed, Remastered)

David Coverdale was a relatively unknown 21-year-old singer-songwriter when he joined Deep Purple in 1973. He went on to record three classic albums alongside the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers before embarking on his musical journey a few years later with his band, Whitesnake.

Coverdale is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his Deep Purple debut this year with a special version of The Purple Album, Whitesnake’s tribute to his three-year tenure with the legendary group. This newly remixed, remastered, and expanded edition of the 2015 album features previously unreleased recordings, including the very demo that secured Coverdale’s spot with Deep Purple.

Coverdale recorded The Purple Album with guitarist Reb Beach, bassist Michael Devin, guitarist Joel Hoekstra (on his first Whitesnake album), and drummer Tommy Aldridge, reappearing on a Whitesnake studio album for the first time since 1989’s Slip Of The Tongue. The band cherry-picked gems from Burn (1974), Stormbringer(1974), and Come Taste The Band (1975), delivering inspired takes on fan favorites like “Lay Down Stay Down,” “Lady Double Dealer,” and “You Keep On Moving.”

An exciting addition to the upcoming collection is the four-song demo Coverdale submitted to Deep Purple, hoping to become the band’s next singer. Recorded in 1972 with his former band, The Fabulosa Brothers, the reel-to-reel tape was extensively restored after Coverdale stumbled upon it among his late mother’s belongings. In the album’s liner notes, Coverdale says: “I had no idea my Mam had the tape…For me, to open my Mam’s trunk of personal items, 30 years after her passing, was a gift from Heaven.” The collection also features several demos Coverdale recorded while working on songs for Deep Purple’s 1974 album Stormbringer.

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Whitesnake
After recording two solo albums, former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale formed Whitesnake around 1977. In the glut of hard rock and heavy metal bands of the late '70s, their first albums got somewhat lost in the shuffle, although they were fairly popular in Europe and Japan. During 1982, Coverdale took some time off so he could take care of his sick daughter. When he re-emerged with a new version of Whitesnake in 1984, the band sounded revitalized and energetic. Slide It In may have relied on Led Zeppelin's and Deep Purple's old tricks, but the band had a knack for writing hooks; the record became their first platinum album. Three years later, Whitesnake released an eponymous album (titled 1987 in Europe) that was even better. Portions of the album were blatantly derivative — "Still of the Night" was a dead ringer for early Zeppelin — but the group could write powerful, heavy rockers like "Here I Go Again" that were driven as much by melody as riffs, as well as hit power ballads like "Is This Love." Whitesnake was an enormous international success, selling over six million copies in the U.S. alone.

Before they recorded their follow-up, 1989's Slip of the Tongue, Coverdale again assembled a completely new version of the band, featuring guitar virtuoso Steve Vai. Although the record went platinum, it was a considerable disappointment after the across-the-board success of Whitesnake. Coverdale put Whitesnake on hiatus after that album. In 1993, he released a collaboration with former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page that was surprisingly lackluster. The following year, Whitesnake issued a greatest-hits album in the U.S. and Canada focusing solely on material from their final three albums (as well as containing a few unreleased tracks).

In 1997, Coverdale resurrected Whitesnake (guitarist Adrian Vandenberg was the only remaining member of the group's latter-day lineup), issuing Restless Heart the same year. Surprisingly, the album wasn't even issued in the United States. On the ensuing tour, Coverdale and Vandenberg performed an "unplugged" show in Japan that was recorded and issued the following year under the title Starkers in Tokyo. By the late '90s, however, Coverdale once again put Whitesnake on hold, as he concentrated on recording his first solo album in nearly 22 years. Coverdale's Into the Light was issued in September 2000, featuring journeyman guitarist Earl Slick. After a lengthy hiatus that saw the release of countless "greatest-hits" and "live" collections, the band returned in 2008 with the impressive Good to Be Bad. Coverdale and Whitesnake toured the album throughout Europe and Japan. The band returned to the recording studio in 2010 with new members bassist Michael Devin (formerly of Lynch Mob) and drummer Brian Tichy, who appeared alongside guitarists Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach, and guest keyboardist Timothy Drury (as well as Coverdale's son Jasper on backing vocals on various tracks). The band's 11th album, Forevermore, was preceded by the issue of the single, "Love Will Set You Free," and released in the spring of 2011. (ROVI)

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