Artist: DEEP PURPLE
Album: ABANDON (CD)

Release date: 1998
Media type: CD

Abandon is an album by Deep Purple, recorded at Greg Rike Studios, Orlando, Florida, during 1997/98. Engineered by Darren Schneider. It was released in 1998. Uniquely for a Deep Purple studio album, it features a reworking of a previously recorded song - Bloodsucker from Deep Purple in Rock (here re-titled Bludsucker). The album title is actually a pun from Ian Gillan - "A Band On". Don't Make Me Happy was mistakenly mastered in mono, and not amended on the final release.

TRACKLIST:

01 "Any Fule Kno That" – 4:27
02 "Almost Human" – 4:49
03 "Don't Make Me Happy" – 4:45
04 "Seventh Heaven" – 5:29
05 "Watching the Sky" – 5:57
06 "Fingers to the Bone" – 4:53
07 "Jack Ruby" – 3:47
08 "She Was" – 4:17
09 "Whatsername" – 4:11
10 "'69" – 5:13
11 "Evil Louie" – 4:50
12 "Bludsucker" – 4:29 (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice)

All songs by Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Steve Morse, Ian Paice, except (12)

LINE-UP:

Ian Gillan - vocals
Steve Morse - guitar
Jon Lord - organ, keyboards
Roger Glover - bass guitar
Ian Paice - drums