Purple Passages is a 1972 US only compilation album by Deep Purple

Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...

 featuring material originally released in 1968 and 1969 on the Tetragrammaton

Tetragrammaton Records

Tetragrammaton Records was an American record label, founded by artist manager Roy Silver, Bruce Post Campbell, Marvin Deane, and comedian Bill Cosby in the late 1960s. The name references a term for the un-nameable name of God....

 label. It features classics such as "Hush" and "Kentucky Woman". It was issued on Compact Disc in 1998, and in 2007 with bonus tracks.

This compilation included some alternate mixes of "The Bird Has Flown" and "Why Didn't Rosemary?", with the former having a clean intro instead of a fade-in on the album version. It also included the final Purple MK I single "Emmaretta" for the first time on LP. Original lead singer Rod Evans went on to front the popular 1970's band Captain Beyond

Captain Beyond

Captain Beyond was an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1971.-History:The original line-up for Captain Beyond were singer Rod Evans, drummer Bobby Caldwell, guitarist Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt, bassist Lee Dorman and keyboardist Lewie Gold...

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Side one

1. "And The Address" (Blackmore/Lord) - 4.53
2. "Hey Joe
   Hey Joe
   "Hey Joe" is an American popular song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and as such, has been performed in a multitude of musical styles by hundreds of different artists since it was first written. "Hey Joe" tells the story of a man who is on the run and planning to head to Mexico...
   
   " (trad., arr. Lord/Evans/Simper/Paice/Blackmore) - 6.57
3. "Hush" (Joe South
   Joe South
   Joe South is a multi-talented American singer-songwriter and guitarist.-Career:...
   
   ) - 4.20
4. "Emmaretta" (Lord/Blackmore/Evans) - 2.58

Side two

5. "Chasing Shadows" (Lord/Paice) - 5.31
6. "The Bird Has Flown" (Evans/Blackmore/Lord) - 5.30
7. "Why Didn't Rosemary?" (Blackmore/Lord/Evans/Simper/Paice) - 5.00

Side three

8. "Hard Road (Wring That Neck)" (Blackmore/Lord/Simper/Paice) - 5.11
9. "The Shield" (Blackmore/Evans/Lord) - 6.02
10. "Mandrake Root
    Mandrake Root
    "Mandrake Root" is a song by Deep Purple that is featured on their debut album Shades of Deep Purple. The title is in reference to the hallucinogenic mandrake plant, but is also the name of a pre-Purple band that Blackmore was trying to form in Germany when he got the call from Deep Purple's...
    
    " (Blackmore/Evans/Lord) - 6.03

Side four

11. "Kentucky Woman
    Kentucky Woman
    "Kentucky Woman" is a 1967 song written and originally recorded by Neil Diamond. Another well-known version is the 1968 recording by Deep Purple....
    
    " (Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond
    Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
    
    ) - 4.44
12. "April" (Blackmore/Lord) - 12.03

Deep Purple

• Ritchie Blackmore
  Ritchie Blackmore
  Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is an English guitarist and songwriter, who was known as one of the first guitarists to fuse Classical music elements with rock. He fronted his own band Rainbow after leaving Deep Purple where he was unhappy because his favourite musical style wasn't adequately...
  
   - lead guitar
• Rod Evans
  Rod Evans
  Rod Evans is a former English singer and was a founding member of Deep Purple in 1968. He provided vocals for the group's first three albums, including the hit singles "Hush" and "Kentucky Woman". He was replaced by Ian Gillan in 1969.-Early career:Before joining Deep Purple, Evans played together...
  
   - vocals
• Jon Lord
  Jon Lord
  Jonathan Douglas "Jon" Lord is an English composer, pianist and Hammond organ player.Jon Lord, also known as 'Hammond Lord', is a classically trained piano player. He is recognised for his Hammond organ blues-rock sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms...
  
   - organ, keyboards, vocals
• Ian Paice
  Ian Paice
  Ian Anderson Paice is an English musician, best known as the drummer of the English rock band Deep Purple. As of Jon Lord's departure in 2002, he is the only founding member of the band who never stopped performing with the group, and the only member to appear on every album the band has...
  
   - drums
• Nick Simper
  Nick Simper
  Nicholas John Simper is a bass guitarist, best known as a founding member of Deep Purple.-Biography:...
  
  - bass guitar, vocals