In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. “It’s probably the best live rock’n’roll record ever made,” he once told this writer proudly. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Ritchie Blackmore was in an even darker mood than usual during sessions in Munich, having to simultaneously deal with an ugly divorce. After DP Mk III’s triumphant debut on Burn, you could say Stormbringer typifies the “difficult second album” syndrome (even though it’s actually Purple’s ninth). Like their debut, Purple’s second album contains an oddball mix of covers and originals. It provided intriguing little stories that personalized the blues in a way that was memorable and understandable. Be the first to ask a question about Deep Blues. Numerous high points include the raging title track; the luscious groove of No No No; Demon’s Eye’s Son Of My Father-style beginning; and the deeply proggy The Mule. Learn more about the program. Blackmore and Lord were at loggerheads initially; then the Man In Black turned his flinty-eyed attention to Gillan. They’ve reeled from the deaths of US guitarist Tommy Bolin, who some claim was badly suited (well, he did wear kaftans), and, more recently, Jon Lord. I just would have appreciated a map showing where the heck these places are/were. Such unflinching subjectivity may seem callous and self-involved, but in the context of its time and place it was positively heroic. No one was playing guitar with such speed and dexterity as the 60s switched into the 70s. To see what your friends thought of this book, Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta, This book is amazing and by far the most interesting Blues book I've read to date. They’ve resisted the clamouring from a small but vociferous hard-core of fans to get Blackmore back in for one final fandango. I mean, it's impressive-- really impressive-- how much information is crammed into here, and it's awesome to hear from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson, but it's a book that warrants some skimming unless a) you're a music scholar b) you're writing your dissertation on African American vocal rhythms, or c) you're working really hard to build up your hipster cred by being able to drop the name of a guy like Destruction into your casual conversation. Briefly called Roundabout (a remnant of Curtis’s plan to form a band around a small core of players, they would be joined by a revolving guest-cast who’d jump on and off a musical ‘roundabout’), Deep Purple debuted in ’68 with their Shades Of… album. This is a book I enjoyed because I love the blues and I recognized a lot of the names, but I can't see how it would appeal to a non-fan of the blues, or blues agnostics, and the prose is fine or whatever, but it sure does drag sometimes, particularly when it just becomes a rote list of names, dates, and indecipherable (to me) explanations of tone, meter, etc.