NEW VINYL LP ON WB 2014

180 GRAM VINYL.

This is a record that even those who aren’t Deep Purple fans can listen to two or three times in one sitting — but then, this wasn’t much like any other album that the group ever issued. Actually, Deep Purple was highly prized for many years by fans of progressive rock, and for good reason. The group was going through a transition — original lead singer Rod Evans and bassist Nick Simper would be voted out of the lineup soon after the album was finished (although they weren’t told about it until three months later), organist Jon Lord and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore having perceived limitations in their work in terms of where each wanted to take the band. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Purple

Tracklist

01. “Chasing Shadows” Lord, Paice 5:34
02. “Blind” Lord 5:26
03. “Lalea” Leitch 5:05
04. “Fault Line” Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice 1:46
05. “The Painter” Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice 3:51
06. “Why Didn’t Rosemary?” Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice 5:04
07. “Bird Has Flown” Evans, Blackmore, Lord 5:36
08. “April” Blackmore, Lord 12:10