Deep Purple - The Book of Taliesyn (1968)
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Deep Purple - The Book of Taliesyn
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Side one
1. "Listen, Learn, Read On" 4:05
2. "Wring That Neck" 5:13
3. "Kentucky Woman" (Neil Diamond cover) 4:44
4. "(a) Exposition"
"(b) We Can Work It Out" (The Beatles cover) 7:06
Side two
5. "Shield" 6:06
6. "Anthem" 6:31
7. "River Deep, Mountain High" (Ike & Tina Turner cover) 10:12
Remastered CD edition bonus tracks
8. "Oh No No No" (studio outtake, December 1968) 4:25
9. "It's All Over" (BBC Top Gear session; 14 January 1969) 4:14
10. "Hey Bop a Re Bop" (BBC Top Gear session; 14 January 1969) 3:31
11. "Wring That Neck" (BBC Top Gear session; 14 January 1969) 4:42
12. "Playground" (remixed instrumental studio outtake; 18 August 1968) 4:29
Deep Purple Band Members / Musicians
Rod Evans – lead vocals
Ritchie Blackmore – guitar
Jon Lord – Hammond organ, keyboards, backing vocals, strings arrangement on "Anthem"
Nick Simper – bass, backing vocals
Ian Paice – drums, temple blocks
Derek Lawrence – producer, mixing
Barry Ainsworth – engineer
Peter Mew – restoring and remastering at Abbey Road Studios, London (2000)
The Book of Taliesyn is the 2nd studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, recorded only three months after Shades of Deep Purple and released by Tetragrammaton Records in October 1968, just before their first US tour. The name for the album was taken from the 14th-century Book of Taliesin.
The structure of the album is similar to that of their first, with four original songs and three rearranged covers, although the tracks are longer, the arrangements more complex and the sound more polished than on Shades of Deep Purple. The music style is a mix of psychedelic rock, progressive rock and hard rock, with several inserts of classical music arranged by the band's keyboard player Jon Lord.
