Gillan, meanwhile, can sing just about anything, so his voice winds up being the best ambassador for this unlikely fare. Guitarist Steve Morse gets to employ some different playing techniques, Don Airey rolls out a little barrelhouse piano on some of the tracks and drummer Ian Paice sounds assured in the different rhythmic approaches. But these surprises are surprisingly convincing. It's an understatement to say that selections such as Huey "Piano" Smith's "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu," Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken," Louis Jordan's brassy "Let the Good Times Roll," Bob Dylan's "Watching the River Flow" or Jimmy Driftwood's "The Battle of New Orleans" seem out of the box. That Purple can sound authentic playing just about anything isn't necessarily the novelty here it's what the group chose to cover that raises eyebrows. Coming just 18 months after 2020's Whoosh! it's Purple's quickest turnaround since the mid-'70s, spearheaded by producer Bob Ezrin as a pandemic-busting alternative to the quintet's usual creative process of in-studio jamming. The 12-track set is an all-covers album and not necessarily songs you'd expect to hear Deep Purple handle.
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