- Stranger in Us All
Infobox Album |
Name = Stranger In Us All
Type =Album
Artist = Rainbow
Released = 1995
Recorded = 1995
Genre =Hard rock
Length = 51:44 (54:48)
Label =BMG
Producer = Pat Regan &Ritchie Blackmore
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5y65mppg9f3o link]
Last album = "Live in Germany " (1994) ---- "Finyl Vinyl " (1986),US
This album = "Stranger In Us All" (1995)
Next album = "The Very Best of Rainbow " (1997) ---- "Live In Europe (1986),US "Stranger In Us All" is a 1995 album by the reformed Rainbow. When Ritchie Blackmore left
Deep Purple for the final time, he put together a new version of Rainbow in 1994. This line-up only released the one album before Ritchie decided he wanted to pursue different musical styles and formedBlackmore's Night with fianceCandice Night .Released in the post-grunge mid '90s it was no surprise that "Stranger In Us All" failed to measure up to the critical and commercial acclaim of previous releases and was not particularly well publicised. Among fans however, it is considered a forgotten gem in the Rainbow discography.
With a style comfortably sitting somewhere between the dungeons and dragons approach of the
Ronnie James Dio era and the radio friendly commerciality of theJoe Lynn Turner era, "Stranger In Us All" had a sound dissimilar to any Rainbow of old. The superb vocal flexibility ofDoogie White proved once again Blackmore's knack of finding relatively unknown talent and giving them a vehicle to further success.Much of the album featured in the live concert sets, and with the set being varied from night to night, live bootleg recordings still remain popular with Blackmore fans.
Drummer John O'Reilly was replaced for the tour, by the returning
Chuck Burgi .John Miceli joined the band for the US shows , February to May 1997, plus one in Denmark.Track listing
All songs written by
Doogie White andRitchie Blackmore except where indicated
#"Wolf to the Moon" (White, Blackmore,Candice Night ) – 4:16
#"Cold Hearted Woman" – 4:31
#"Hunting Humans (Insatiable)" – 5:45
#"Stand and Fight" – 5:22
#"Ariel" – 5:39 (Blackmore, Night)
#"Too Late for Tears" (White, Blackmore,Pat Regan ) – 4:50
#"Black Masquerade" (White, Blackmore, Paul Morris, Night) – 5:35
#"Silence" – 4:04
#"Hall of the Mountain King" (Edvard Grieg , additional arrgmt. by Blackmore, Night) – 5:34
#"Still I'm Sad" (Paul Samwell-Smith ,Jim McCarty ) – 5:22Japan pressing (RCA Records BVCP-862) adds the following
#- "Emotional Crime"
*Track 10 originally recorded byThe Yardbirds on the album "Having a Rave Up with The Yardbirds". The song was previously covered by the Dio-era Rainbow on both "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow " and "Rainbow On Stage".*Track 5, 'Ariel', was performed live by
Blackmore's Night on their 2007Paris Moon tour.Personnel
*
Ritchie Blackmore -Guitar
*Doogie White - vocals
*John O’Reilly - drums
*Greg Smith - Bass
*Paul Morris - KeyboardsAdditional personnel
*
Mitch Weiss -Harmonica
*Candice Night - background vocalsProduction
*Mixing – Pat Regan
*Engineer – Pat Regan
*Assistant Engineers – Fran Flannery, Jesse Henderson, Ed Miller, Steve Moseley, John Reigart, David Shackney, Steve Sisco and DugExternal links
* [http://heavyharmonies.com/cgi-bin/glamcd.cgi?BandNum=207&CDName=Stranger+in+Us+All Heavy Harmonies page]
- "Emotional Crime"
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