Artist: DEEP PURPLE
Album: THE BOOK OF TALIESYN VINYL REISSUE (LP)

Release date: 1969/ 2015
EAN/UPS: 9991208059321
Media type: LP

The Book of Taliesyn is the second album by English rock band Deep Purple, released in 1969 by EMI's Harvest Records in the UK, Tetragrammaton in the US and Polydor in Canada and Japan.

The album follows the psychedelic-pop sound of Shades of Deep Purple; however, there is a harder edge to several songs, beginning to show the new sound Deep Purple would introduce in 1970 with Deep Purple in Rock.

SIDE A:

1. Listen, Learn, Read On" (Blackmore, Evans, Lord, Paice) – 4:05
2. "Wring That Neck" (originally titled "Hard Road" in the USA) (Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Simper) – 5:13
3. "Kentucky Woman" (Neil Diamond) – 4:44

4. a) "Exposition (Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice)
b) "We Can Work It Out" (Lennon/McCartney) – 7:06

SIDE B:

1. "Shield" (Blackmore, Evans, Lord) – 6:06
2. "Anthem" (Evans, Lord) – 6:31
3. "River Deep - Mountain High" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) – 10:12


LINE-UP:

Ritchie Blackmore - lead guitar
Rod Evans - vocals
Jon Lord - organ, keyboards, vocals
Ian Paice - drums
Nick Simper - bass guitar, vocals

String arrangements on Anthem by Jon Lord.