A number of the songs have been cut down in time as well from the originals including “Midnight Blue” which has shaved around 10 seconds off. Another song that seems to have more backing vocals added like “Summer Rain” is “Don’t You Cry” and I think it is a nice add. Joel Hoekstra added some guitars and Derek Sherinian added some Hammond. “Your Precious Love” opens the second LP and the song seems to be a little less churchy as the original had more of a gospel feel to it. The backing vocals with the “oooh baby” aren’t that great either. I found it rather boring and see why it was left off “Into the Light”. It is very slow and plods along and doesn’t have much depth or heart to be honest. This is ballad that is a little too syrupy sweet. The one new song on the first LP is “With All of My Heart”.
The last song on the first LP with a noticeable difference is “Summer Rain” which I believe has a little more added to the backing vocals as they seem fuller. Funny enough, “Is this Love” doesn’t seem to have been altered much, if at all…but why mess with perfection. I think it changes the songs enough that you notice the differences and these aren’t too bad of a change. We also get some new guitar parts added as well as some keyboards to both “The Deeper the Love”, “Too Many Tears” and even “Can’t Go One” which Joel played on (he didn’t play on the original. The original song starts with the some heavy guitar riffs and rocks out the whole time. Speaking of mix, the opening track on the first LP, “Love Will Set You Free”, has a whole new a cappella opening that honestly doesn’t work for me. Love can rock as well as be a ballad so I am fine with the mix of tracks. Some of the songs rock a little more, but the theme of the songs are still love. Being the love album, you think it would all be ballads, but it is not. I will stick with songs that have some serious changes and also focus mostly on the three new tracks if that is okay with you. Since there are 15 tracks, I don’t think I am going to go through them all as that would make this way too long and you way to bored. There is one song from ‘1987’, two from ‘Slip of the Tongue’, three from ‘Restless Heart’, two from ‘Into the Light’ (not including the 3 new tracks from that session), two from ‘Good To Be Bad’, two from ‘Forevermore’ and none from the newest album ‘Flesh & Blood’. Those three songs were originally recorded during David Coverdale’s solo release in 2000 called ‘Into the Light’ and no he has brought them in to the light. These 15 songs are from the albums ‘1987’ up to ‘Forevermore’ with the exception of the three previously unreleased songs. The songs are still very much recognizable, just enhanced ever so slightly. The songs aren’t completely re-imagined, thankfully it is no Bon Jovi “This Left Feels Right”. The songs have been tinkered with and given a little touch-up with some re-mixing and even a little touch-up on arrangements and other little surprises.
The big difference on these albums is more than just a remastering. Each album is really a glorified greatest hits albums each with its own theme and the titles give you those themes quite nicely. The Rock Album (White) was up first and now we are on Love Songs (Red) and I believe The Blues Album (Blue, duh) will come in early 2021 (February was last I heard but that has not been confirmed yet).
#DEEPER THE LOVE WHITESNAKE SERIES#
This time it is a series called ‘Red, White & Blue’ Trilogy. But for now, he is rehashing old material yet again. And next year in 2021, we will get ‘Restless Heart’. He has brought us deluxe box sets for albums such as ‘Slide It In’, ‘1987’, ‘Slip of the Tongue’ and even ‘Unzipped’ the all acoustic box set. In the last few years, David Coverdale has been quite busy rehashing old material, but in a good way.
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