An old friend rediscovered - Ritchie Blackmore…
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If you’re a fan of good music and great guitar playing you’ll likely have heard of Ritchie Blackmore. Best known for his time with Deep Purple and Rainbow he’s now working with his wife Candice Night (vocals) in the Renaissance-inspired ‘Blackmore’s Night’. I digress - the reason for this post is that I have recently ‘discovered’ a great Rainbow album - the quite amazing ‘Stranger in Us All’ featuring Doogie White on vocals. Released in 1995 this was to be Ritchie’s last album before forming ‘Blackmore’s Night’. |
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the legend that is Ritchie Blackmore |
I find it hard to believe that this great album has been unknown to me until literally a few weeks ago. The last album I purchased by Rainbow was the 1982 release ‘Straight Between the Eyes’ so I’d kind of lost track of their output…and of course there had been the on-off-on-off Deep Purple thing for Ritchie. But having found it I love it. I’d recommend you check it out because it has some great playing by Ritchie and Doogie White’s vocals work really well as you might expect from such a great vocalist!
Stand out tracks for me are ‘Ariel’, ‘Stand and Fight’ (shades of ‘Can’t Happen Here’), ‘Too Late for Tears’, ‘Black Masquerade’ (shades of ‘Eyes of The World’) and a rousing kick-ass version of ‘Still I’m Sad’ - there just isn’t a weak track on the album!