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Ready An' Willing

by: Whitesnake

Release Date June 18, 2007
Whitesnake has two main era/styles - the shredding, flashy, hair metal group (with a revolving lineup) that got them famous in America at the end of the 80's, and the blues based (sometimes hard-) rock of the late 70's, early 80's, with a relatively steady band. The earlier days can be even more broken down between the first couple albums, with Duck Dowle on drums, and the more riffy hard-rock of the Ian Paice albums. This one kind of bridges that gap. There's a lot of heavily grooving blues-rock goin' on here, some fantastic singing from David Coverdale (whose rich voice here was quite the opposite of his later, screaming, Robert Plant-inspired style), and a couple nice acoustic and ballady tracks. I might point out that I don't generally ... Read More: