Artist: DEEP PURPLE
Album: THE BOOK OF TALIESYN REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1969/ 2000
EAN/UPS: 724352160822
Media type: CD

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.

TRACKLIST:

Original release on vinyl:

"Listen, Learn, Read On" (Blackmore, Evans, Lord, Paice) – 4:05
"Wring That Neck" (originally titled "Hard Road" in the USA) (Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Simper) – 5:13
"Kentucky Woman" (Neil Diamond) – 4:44
a) "Exposition (Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice)
b) "We Can Work It Out" (Lennon/McCartney) – 7:06 (6:66 instead of 7:06 on the LP).
"Shield" (Blackmore, Evans, Lord) – 6:06
"Anthem" (Evans, Lord) – 6:31
"River Deep - Mountain High" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) – 10:12

Bonus tracks on the CD re-issue:

"Oh No No No" (studio outtake) (Leander, Russell) – 4:25
"It's All Over" (BBC Top Gear Session) (King, Berns) – 4:14
"Hey Bop a Re Bop" (BBC Top Gear Session) (Blackmore, Evans, Lord, Paice) – 3:31
"Wring That Neck" (BBC Top Gear Session) (Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Simper) – 4:42
"Playground" (studio outtake 18/8/69) (Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Simper) – 4:29

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

Additional personnel:

Produced by Derek Lawrence
Engineered by Barry Ainsworth
Bonus tracks recorded 1968 & 1969 (BBC Top Gear sessions 14/1/69)

Digitally remastered and restored by Peter Mew at Abbey Road Studios, London