A far cry from вЂњStill Of The NightвЂќ yet a tune that moves the spotlight from the power of CoverdaleвЂ™s voice to the brilliance of his soul-drenched tonsils. Right from the jump, it is obvious that by the release of Restless Heart, Coverdale has moved on from his вЂ™80s blonde roots by way of opening track вЂњDonвЂ™t Fade AwayвЂќ, a pop rock ballad along the lines of Henry Lee Summer and from there Coverdale doesnвЂ™t veer too far with second song вЂњAll In The Name of Love.вЂќ The sound is a mix of вЂ™80s / вЂ™90s white pop soul complete with catchy chorus. This could probably at least partially explain why the Restless Heart tour was sub-titled as a вЂњ Farewell Tour.вЂќ Spandex, tight denim, and well formed hair had given way to baggy clothes, flannel, and unkept hairdos while music had changed from sexy and rebellious to dirty and destructive.В In the middle of all of this change, David Coverdale and Whitesnake released Restless Heart. Aside from the groove side of Pearl Jam and Atlanta band The Black Crowes, blues-based rock of any sort had pretty much dropped below mainstream radar. Dark alternative music and the sounds of grunge had come and pretty much gone and something called nu metal was starting to creep up out of the ashes of those two music forms. For now letвЂ™s jump back forward 16 years to 1997.Д«y the time Restless Heart was unveiled, it had been nearly eight years since Whitesnake had released an album and in that time, the rock and roll landscape had changed. ButвЂ¦I guess thatвЂ™s another review for a whole other year. Matter of fact, Come AnвЂ™ Get It to this day remains my favorite Whitesnake album. Maiden were a brutal force but Whitesnake? Man on those early albums, the drums pound in time like a hammer and as a fan already of AC/DC, I fell madly in love with the backbeat low end of Whitesnake. How could a 15-year-old American kid on foreign soil not be taken in by Maiden mascot Eddie and the eye-catching snake coiled up in a glass apple on WhitesnakeвЂ™s latest release? Once home, I would discover how different but incredibly rock and roll both bands were. Those two albums? Iron MaidenвЂs Killers and WhitesnakeвЂs Come AnвЂ™ Get It, both newly released that year. My introduction to Whitesnake came unexpectedly in 1981 when on a trip with friends to a shopping mall just outside of Frankfurt, Germany, I caught a glimpse of a pair of artistically provocative albums on an aisle end display. By that token, Restless Heart stands as more of a Whitesnake album in comparison to the bandвЂ™s hugely popular international вЂ™80s output outside from 1984вЂ™s Slide It In. After all, this was the fanbase most responsible for WhitesnakeвЂ™s initial success as a vehicle for frontman David CoverdaleвЂ™s post Deep Purple rock and roll. Ironically enough, despite the success of the previous two albums (1987вЂ™s self-titled Whitesnake and 1989вЂ™s follow-up Slip Of The Tongue), Restless Heart was released to just about every country but the United States unleashing a classic sounding Whitesnake album to perhaps the fan base most expected to embrace it, that being Europe and Asia. Now before I get too deep into my thoughts on what was pretty much a partial follow-up to what many consider to be the two most mainstream successful releases in the history of the band Whitesnake, I feel that I would be remiss if I didnвЂ™t at first mention that Restless Heart was actually the ninth album released by the band and actually a return to what many outside of the United States consider to be the classic Whitesnake sound.

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