Whitesnake - 'Soldier Of Fortune' (DC & Hook City Strings)

I have often told you stories
About the way
I lived the life of a drifter
Waiting for the day
When I'd take your hand
And sing you songs
Then maybe you would say
Come lay with me love me
And I would surely stay

But I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune

Many times I've been a traveller
I looked for something new
In days of old
When nights were cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thougt my eyes
Had seen you standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that you're not here

Now I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
Yes, I can hear the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune

Ο δίσκος των Whitesnake "The Purple Album" κυκλοφόρησε τον Μάιο του 2015 και (όπως μαρτυρά ο τίτλος του) αφορά σε διασκευές - επανεκτελέσεις τραγουδιών των Deep Purple την περίοδο που ήταν ο David Coverdale στο μικρόφωνο της θρυλικής μπάντας (1973-1976). Πέντε χρόνια αργότερα, προ μηνός (13 Οκτωβρίου 2023), "βγήκε" η (αποκαλούμενη ως) "Special Gold Edition" σε δύο εκδόσεις: 2CD / BLU-RAY και 2LP. Τί περιλαμβάνει;

CD 1:
2023 REMIX
01. Burn
02. Lay Down, Stay Down
03. Love Child
04. Holy Man
05. The Gypsy
06. Lady Double Dealer
07. Might Just Take Your Life
08. Mistreated
09. Stormbringer
10. Sail Away (Interpolating “Elegy For Jon”)
11. You Keep On Moving (featuring The Hook City Strings)
12. Lady Luck
13. Coming Home
14. You Fool No One (Interpolating “Itchy Fingers” Dedicated In Loving Memory Of Jeff Beck)
15. Soldier Of Fortune

CD 2: 78:38
THE PURPLE TOUR “FIVE LIVE” 34:48
01. Burn
02. The Gypsy
03. Mistreated
04. You Fool No One
05. Soldier of Fortune

ALTERNATIVE MIXES
06. Holy Man (Unzipped)
07. Stormbringer (Punch In The Nuts Mix... Joel Hoekstra alt solo)
08. Love Child (Joel Hoekstra alt solo)
09. Soldier Of Fortune (featuring Joel Hoekstra & The Hook City Strings)
10. Soldier Of Fortune (featuring The Hook City Strings)
11. Soldier Of Fortune (instrumental featuring The Hook City Strings)

Demos and Audition Tapes (Previously Unreleased)

The DC Purple Audition Tape 1972 featuring The Fabulosa Brothers
12. Everybody’s Talkin’
13. Get Ready
14. Lonely Town Lonely Street
15. Dancing In The Street
16. 1974 DC Demos/Ideas For “Stormbringer” album

DISC 3 BLU-RAY
PURPLE MUSIC VIDEOS
01. Lady Double Dealer
02. Stormbringer
03. Sail Away
04. Soldier of Fortune
05. The Gypsy
06. Soldier Of Fortune (featuring Joel Hoekstra & The Hook City Strings)
07. Soldier Of Fortune (featuring The Hook City Strings)

PURPLESNAKE VIDEOS
08. Lay Down, Stay Down
09. Holy Man
10. You Keep On Moving
11. You Fool No One

LIVE CLIPS
12. Burn (Live “Atlantis” Video)
13. Burn/Stormbringer (Live In The Still Of The Night)
14. Soldier Of Fortune (Starkers In Tokyo)

THE PURPLE TOUR “FIVE LIVE”
15. Burn
16. The Gypsy
17. Mistreated
18. You Fool No One
19. Soldier of Fortune
20. The Purple Album: Behind The Scenes
21. The Purple Album: Song-By-Song

Δελτίο τύπου: «In 1973, it was announced that Deep Purple - at the time, one of the biggest rock bands in the world - had a new vocalist, a young unknown singer from the north of England called David Coverdale.

David wrote and recorded three studio albums with Deep Purple, all of them classics; BURN, STORMBRINGER & COME TASTE THE BAND. The fiftieth anniversary of this momentous event is now celebrated with the Special Gold Edition of The PURPLE Album.

Cherry-picking the best tracks from Deep Purple’s Mark 3 and Mark 4 line-ups, all newly remixed and remastered for 2023, Whitesnake’s twelfth studio album features Reb Beach on guitar and Michael Devin on bass, joined by Joel Hoekstra on his first Whitesnake album, plus drummer Tommy Aldridge reappearing on a Whitesnake studio album for the first time since 1989’s SLIP OF THE TONGUE.»