構成数 | 2枚

合計収録時間 | 02:21:58

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. Personnel: David Coverdale, Lynn Sheppard, Iris Williams, Jimmy Helms, Maggie Bell, Ray Fenwick, Roger Glover, Tony Ashton, Billy Ocean (vocals). Liner Note Author: Matt Green. Photographer: Barry Plummer. 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."