The Book of Taliesyn

The Book of Taliesyn

Infobox Album | Name = The Book of Taliesyn
Type = Album
Artist = Deep Purple


Released = October, 1968 (US) July, 1969 (UK)
Recorded = August 1968 at De Lane Lea, London
Genre = Hard rock, progressive rock
Length = 43:57 (Original LP)
65:19 (2000 CD edition)
Label = Harvest Records (UK) Tetragrammaton (US)
Producer = Derek Lawrence
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:vx7ibka96akx link] | Last album = "Shades of Deep Purple"
(1968)
This album = "The Book of Taliesyn"
(1968)
Next album = "Deep Purple"
(1969)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Re-issue cover
Type = Album


Lower caption = Remastered

"The Book of Taliesyn" is the second album by English rock band Deep Purple, released in 1968 by Tetragrammaton in the US, and by EMI's Harvest Records in the UK, and Polydor in Canada and Japan in 1969.

The album follows the psychedelic/progressive rock 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 "In Rock".

There are three cover versions on this album - Kentucky Woman, originally from Neil Diamond, We Can Work It Out from the Beatles and River Deep Mountain High, known from Ike and Tina Turner.

Artwork

The cover of the 1968 Album shown here, was created by the Illustrator and author John Vernon Lord who 'coincidentally' appears to share the same name as the band's keyboard player, Jon Lord. ‘The Book of Taliesyn', was the only record cover John Vernon Lord ever designed and according to the artist's recent retrospective the original artwork was never returned. [ Lord. J, "Drawing upon Drawing" p. 46. Pub 2007 by the Universtity of Brighton ]

The brief from the artist's agent is detailed in "Drawing upon Drawing" [ as above] as follows:

"the agent gave me the title saying that the art director wanted a ‘fantasy Arthurian touch’ and to include hand lettering for the title and the musicians’ names. I mainly drew from The Book of Taliesin, which is a collection of poems, said to be written by the sixth century Welsh bard Taliesin." [ ibid]

The fee for the job was £30 (minus 25% for the agent). John Vernon Lord was until recently, Professor of Illustration at the University of Brighton.

Track listing

# "Listen, Learn, Read On" (Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Ian Paice) – 4:05
# "Wring That Neck" (originally titled "Hard Road" in the USA) (Blackmore, Nick Simper, Lord, Paice) – 5:13
# "Kentucky Woman" (Neil Diamond) – 4:44
# a) "Exposition" (Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) b) "We Can Work It Out" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 7:06 (6:66 instead of 7:06 on the LP).
# "Shield" (Evans, Blackmore, 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) (Mike Leander, Leon Russell) – 4:25
    # "It's All Over" (BBC Top Gear Session) ( King, Bert Berns) – 4:14
    # "Hey Bop a Re Bop" (BBC Top Gear Session) (Evans, Blackmore, Lord, Paice) – 3:31
    # "Wring That Neck" (BBC Top Gear Session) (Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 4:42
    # "Playground" (studio outtake 18/8/69) (Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 4:29

    Personnel

    * Rod Evans - lead vocals
    * Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
    * Nick Simper - bass, backing vocals
    * Jon Lord - organ, keyboards, backing vocals, string arrangements on "Anthem"
    * Ian Paice - drums

    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

    Miscellaneous

    * "Anthem" quotes an organ fugue by J. S. Bach beginning at 2:56.
    * "Exposition" builds on the Allegretto from L. van Beethoven's 7th Symphony.

    See also

    *"Book of Taliesin", the historical book after which the album is named


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