Stranger in Us All
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| Stranger In Us All | ||
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| Studio album by Rainbow | ||
| Released | August 1995 | |
| Recorded | 1995 | |
| Genre | Hard Rock | |
| Length | 51:44 (54:48) | |
| Label | BMG | |
| Producer(s) | Pat Regan & Ritchie Blackmore | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Rainbow chronology | ||
| Live in Germany (1994) ---- Finyl Vinyl (1986), US |
Stranger In Us All (1995) |
The Very Best of Rainbow (1997) ---- Live In Europe (1996), 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 1995. 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. The dry production qualities of the recordings gave rise to critical comments.
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.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
- "Wolf to the Moon" (Ritchie Blackmore/Doogie White/Candice Night) – 4:16
- "Cold Hearted Woman" (Blackmore/White) – 4:31
- "Hunting Humans (Insatiable)" ((Blackmore/White) – 5:45
- "Stand and Fight" (Blackmore/White) – 5:22
- "Ariel" (Blackmore/Night) – 5:39
- "Too Late for Tears" (Blackmore/White/Pat Regan) – 4:50
- "Black Masquerade" (Blackmore/White/Paul Morris/Night) – 5:35
- "Silence" (Blackmore/White) – 4:04
- "Hall of the Mountain King" (trad. Additional Arrgmt. by Night/Blackmore) – 5:34
- "Still I'm Sad" (Paul Samwell-Smith/Jim McCarty) – 5:22
Asian version (RCA Records BVCP-862) adds the following
- "Emotional Crime" (Blackmore/White)
- Track 10 originally recorded by The Yardbirds on the album Having a Rave Up with The Yardbirds
[edit] Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
- Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar
- Doogie White - Vocals
- John O'Reilly - Drums
- Greg Smith - Bass
- Paul Morris - Keyboards
[edit] 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
