''The Rock Album'' is a compilation album by British
hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard ...
band
Whitesnake, released on 19 June 2020 through
Rhino Records.
The album contains "revisited, remixed and remastered" versions of previously released songs, and is the first in a series called ''Red, White and Blues Trilogy'' including also red's ''
Love Songs'' (2020) and blue's ''
The Blues Album'' (2021).
Content
According to the album's
executive producer
Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights o ...
David Coverdale
David Coverdale (born 22 September 1951) is an English singer who is best known as the lead vocalist of Whitesnake, a hard rock band he founded in 1978. Before Whitesnake, Coverdale was the lead singer of Deep Purple from 1973 to 1976, after wh ...
, some songs "have been musically embellished where my co-producer Michael McIntyre, my new mixer Christopher Collier and I felt it appropriate or necessary to bring out the best in these songs."
''The Rock Album'' includes a new song, "Always the Same", originally recorded for the band's 2019 album ''
Flesh & Blood''.
Track listing
Charts
The vinyl LP charted on the UK
Official Vinyl Albums Chart at the 39th position.
Credits
Credits are adapted from the complication album's liner notes. For original album credits, see
Slide It In,
1987
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,
Slip of the Tongue,
Restless Heart,
Into the Light,
Good to Be Bad,
Forevermore
References
2020 albums
Whitesnake compilation albums
Rhino Records albums
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