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 formed Blackmore's Night with fiance Candice 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 the Joe Lynn Turner era, "Stranger In Us All" had a sound dissimilar to any Rainbow of old. The superb vocal flexibility of Doogie 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 and Ritchie 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
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"Emotional Crime"
*Track 10 originally recorded by The 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 2007 Paris Moon tour.

Personnel

*Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar
*Doogie White - vocals
*John O’Reilly - drums
*Greg Smith - Bass
*Paul Morris - Keyboards

Additional personnel

*Mitch Weiss - Harmonica
*Candice Night - background vocals

Production

*Mixing – Pat Regan
*Engineer – Pat Regan
*Assistant Engineers – Fran Flannery, Jesse Henderson, Ed Miller, Steve Moseley, John Reigart, David Shackney, Steve Sisco and Dug

External links

* [http://heavyharmonies.com/cgi-bin/glamcd.cgi?BandNum=207&CDName=Stranger+in+Us+All Heavy Harmonies page]