Lovehunter – WHITESNAKE***

Long Way From Home/ Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues/Help Me Thro' The Day/Medicine Man/You 'n' Me/ Mean Business/Love Hunter/Outlaw/Rock 'n' roll Women/We Wish You Well

Lovehunter was the follow up album from the UK blues-rock band Whitesnake fronted by former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale. They would enjoy considerable success in the next decade. (UK:29)

“In my opinion it is the best Whitesnake album with great guitar work by both guitarists, a great vocal performance by David Coverdale and the input of Jon Lord is also very good: he didn’t try to make the same kind of organ play he did with Purple and stayed in the background.”

“The opening track, Long Way From Home, ranks among Whitesnake's best ever songs. The whole album is immensely enjoyable and more than worthy of David Coverdale's best days with Deep Purple.”

“Lovehunter is Whitesnake’s and David Coverdale's defining moment and a blues-rock statement to the ages. It is an epic album unmarred by any weak tracks or filler. This band was extraordinarily tight and at the peak of their prowess and it showed.”

“Not blues-rock, per se, although bluesy, but more like boogie-driven hard rock, with the killer title track, plus Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues and the crowd salute We Wish You Well.”

“Macho hard rock for a testosterone deficient audience, Lovehunter represents one of the last flickers of energy in a mortally wounded genre.”

“Lovehunter continues a long tradition of heavy rock tinged with a smoky blues atmosphere and, as you would expect, Whitesnake do it with some style. When it comes to what's become known as classic rock there are few vocalists that can hold a candle to David Coverdale.”

“This is a bluesy rock album with some really great songs. The classic here is Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues, with fantastic guitar work. Help Me Through The Day is another slow blues song which is brought alive by David Coverdale. The other songs are traditional 70s rock mixed with simple, pleasant arrangements having the regular Coverdale lyrics of love and sensuality.”