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Deep Purple - Deep Purple
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Side one
1. "Chasing Shadows" 5:34
2. "Blind" 5:26
3. "Lalena" (Donovan cover) 5:05
4. "Fault Line" (instrumental) 1:46
5. "The Painter" 3:51
Side two
6. "Why Didn't Rosemary?" 5:04
7. "Bird Has Flown" 5:36
8. "April" 12:10
Remastered CD edition bonus tracks
9. "The Bird Has Flown" (Alternate A-side version) 2:54
10. "Emmaretta" (Studio B-side) 3:00
11. "Emmaretta" (BBC Top Gear session, 14 January 1969) 3:09
12. "Lalena" (BBC radio session; 24 June 1969) 3:33
13. "The Painter" (BBC radio session; 24 June 1969) 2:18
Deep Purple Band Members / Musicians
Rod Evans – lead vocals
Ritchie Blackmore – guitars
Jon Lord – Hammond organ, piano, harpsichord, backing vocals, strings arrangement on "April"
Nick Simper – bass, backing vocals
Ian Paice – drums, percussion
Derek Lawrence – producer, mixing
Barry Ainsworth – engineer
Peter Mew – restoring and remastering at Abbey Road Studios, London (2000)
Deep Purple, also referred to as Deep Purple III, is the 3rd studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released in June 1969 on Tetragrammaton Records in the United States and only in September 1969 on Harvest Records in the United Kingdom. Its release was preceded by the single "Emmaretta" and by a long tour in the UK, whose dates were interspersed between the album's recording sessions.
The music of this album is mostly original and a combination of progressive rock, hard rock and psychedelic rock, but with a harder edge and with the guitar parts in more evidence than in the past. This was due both to the growth of guitarist Ritchie Blackmore as a songwriter and to the conflicts within the band over the fusion of classical music and rock proposed by keyboard player Jon Lord and amply implemented in the band's previous releases.
