Friends & Relatives by Deep Purple (CD, Apr-1999, 2 Discs, Purple Pyramid/Cleopatra)

Album Features
UPC:	741157052626
Artist:	Deep Purple
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1999
Record Label:	Purple Pyramid/Cleopatra
Genre:	Hard Rock, Rock & Pop
Number Of Discs:	2

Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Black Night
2. Paint It Black
3. I Got It Covered
4. Scarabus
5. Man on the Silver Mountain
6. Hole in the Sky
7. Gut Reaction
8. Slip Streaming
9. You 'N' Me
10. Hang Me Out to Dry
11. Ritual
12. Seagull
13. Do You Close Your Eyes?

DISC 2:
1. Smoke on the Water
2. Stormbringer
3. Mob Rules, The
4. My Kind of Woman
5. She Took My Breath Away
6. Message in a Bottle
7. Whitesnake
8. Shake the Devil
9. Hunter of the Heart
10. Clear Air
11. Time & Again
12. Way Back to the Bone
13. Kill the King

Details
Distributor:	Navarre
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Includes liner notes by Matt Green.Personnel includes: Jon Lord, Roger Glover, David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes, Billy Ocean, Maggie Bell, Ronnie James Dio, Zak Starkey, Pete York, Eddie Hardin, Rick Van Der Linden, Ric Lee Mike D'abo, Mike Smith, Jimmy Helms, Mo Foster, Henry Spinetti, Tony Ashton, Iris Williams, Ray Fenwick, The Chris Farber Band.An entertaining, if rather puzzling, sort of concept album, DEEP PURPLE FAMILY is mostly written and sung by Eddie Hardin, the man who had the unenviable task of replacing Stevie Winwood in the old Spencer Davis Group, and later formed the prog-rock duo Hardin & York. Hardin has assembled an impressive, if grizzled, group of Brit Rock names here--various members of Deep Purple, Manfred Mann, and the Dave Clark Fives--to help him perform this lengthy song cycle. Musically, it's a pleasant ride; most of Hardin's songs sound like laid-back, '70s L.A. studio pop, although Maggie Bell (England's answer to Janis Joplin back in the day) raises the energy level considerably on her two songs, and the Chris Barber Band makes some nice retro jazz noises on parts one and two of "Swanks and Swells."