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<i>The Rock Album</i>

The Rock Album

2020 compilation album by Whitesnake

The Rock Album is a compilation album by British hard rock band Whitesnake, released on 19 June 2020 through Rhino Records.[2] The album contains "revisited, remixed and remastered" versions of previously released songs, and is the first in a series called Red, White and Blues Trilogy including also red's Love Songs (2020) and blue's The Blues Album (2021).

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Content

According to the album's executive producer David Coverdale, some songs "have been musically embellished where my co-producer Michael McIntyre, my new mixer Christopher Collier and I felt it appropriate or necessary to bring out the best in these songs."[2]

The Rock Album includes a new song, "Always the Same", originally recorded for the band's 2019 album Flesh & Blood.[2][3]

Track listing

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Charts

The vinyl LP charted on the UK Official Vinyl Albums Chart at the 39th position.[4]

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Credits

Credits are adapted from the complication album's liner notes. For original album credits, see Slide It In, 1987, Slip of the Tongue, Restless Heart, Into the Light, Good to Be Bad, Forevermore

Whitesnake (Always the Same)

(see Flesh & Blood credits)

Technical (Always the Same)
  • Michael McIntyre – engineering & recording
  • Christopher 'Muffin Man' Collier – mixing & mastering
  • Scott Hull – mastering (at Masterdisk, New York)[15]
Management
  • David Coverdale — executive producer
  • Michael McIntyre — producer
  • Hugh Gilmour — A&R
Technical
  • Christopher 'Muffin Man' Collier – remixing & mastering
  • Scott Hull — remastering
  • Tom Gordon — 2nd engineer & QC
  • Jeremiah Wynn — 2nd engineer & QC
Design
  • Hugh Gilmour — art direction, design
Other
  • Brian Dodd — product manager
  • Ellys Airey — production & packaging manager

References

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    "Official Vinyl Albums Chart on 26/6/2020". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
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