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Between 1977 and 1978, vocalist ] recorded the first of his two solo albums after the Mark IV dissolution of ]. Both were released as ] and '']'' and were gone out in many complication sets, more recently ] in 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.popmatters.com/149282-david-coverdale-white-snakenorth-winds-2495941248.html |title=David Coverdale: White Snake / North Winds |last=Valdivia |first=Victor |date=16 October 2011 |website=] |access-date=13November2023}}</ref> Decades later after the temporary disbandment of Coverdale's formed band ], he resumed his solo career as well to explore many forms of music.<ref name="Hammer97">{{cite magazine |year= 1997 |title= Too Old to Rock and Roll - Too Young to Die? |magazine=] |issue=7 |volume=14 |pages=126{{ndash}}127 |publisher=ZAG Zeitschriften-Verlag | location=Berlin, Germany}}</ref> The resulting 2000 record came out as ], listing it as his most successful solo album commercially and critically, only that it charted in five countries.<ref name="CRNJ2120">{{cite web |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/every-david-coverdale-and-whitesnake-album-ranked-worst-to-best |title=Every David Coverdale and Whitesnake album, ranked from worst to best |last=Jeffries |first=Neil |date=22 September 2021 |website=] |publisher=Louder |access-date=13November2023}}</ref><ref name="Classic Rock">{{cite magazine |last=Llewellyn |first=Siân |date=18 September 2000 |title= David Coverdale – ''Into the Light'' (EMI/Chrysalis - advance CD) |magazine=] |page=63 |location=London, England |publisher=Future}}</ref><ref name="Metalhammer">{{cite magazine |first=Matthias |last=Mineur |year=2000 |title= David Coverdale - ''Into the Light'' (EMI) |magazine=] |issue=10 |volume=17 |pages=86 |publisher=AS Young Mediahouse GmbH | location=Munich, Germany}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.melodic-rock.com/interviews/davidcoverdale.html |title= David Coverdale – Into the Light Interview |first=Andrew J. |last=McNeice |website=MelodicRock |access-date=9February 2021 }}</ref>
Between 1977 and 1978, vocalist ] recorded the first of his two solo albums after the Mark IV dissolution of ]. Both were released as ] and '']'' and were gone out in many complication sets, more recently ] in 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.popmatters.com/149282-david-coverdale-white-snakenorth-winds-2495941248.html |title=David Coverdale: White Snake / North Winds |last=Valdivia |first=Victor |date=16 October 2011 |website=] |access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref> Decades later after the temporary disbandment of Coverdale's formed band ], he resumed his solo career as well to explore many forms of music.<ref name="Hammer97">{{cite magazine |year= 1997 |title= Too Old to Rock and Roll - Too Young to Die? |magazine=] |issue=7 |volume=14 |pages=126{{ndash}}127 |publisher=ZAG Zeitschriften-Verlag | location=Berlin, Germany}}</ref> The resulting 2000 record came out as ], listing it as his most successful solo album commercially and critically, only that it charted in five countries.<ref name="CRNJ2120">{{cite web |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/every-david-coverdale-and-whitesnake-album-ranked-worst-to-best |title=Every David Coverdale and Whitesnake album, ranked from worst to best |last=Jeffries |first=Neil |date=22 September 2021 |website=] |publisher=Louder |access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref><ref name="Classic Rock">{{cite magazine |last=Llewellyn |first=Siân |date=18 September 2000 |title= David Coverdale – ''Into the Light'' (EMI/Chrysalis - advance CD) |magazine=] |page=63 |location=London, England |publisher=Future}}</ref><ref name="Metalhammer">{{cite magazine |first=Matthias |last=Mineur |year=2000 |title= David Coverdale - ''Into the Light'' (EMI) |magazine=] |issue=10 |volume=17 |pages=86 |publisher=AS Young Mediahouse GmbH | location=Munich, Germany}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.melodic-rock.com/interviews/davidcoverdale.html |title= David Coverdale – Into the Light Interview |first=Andrew J. |last=McNeice |website=MelodicRock |access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref>
According to Coverdale, his first two solo works, including Whitesnake material have been digitally copied and possess the ability to be ] and ] but unfortunately cannot be ] at that time. This was a result from the 2008 ], which archived the band's material belonging to ].<ref name="BluesAlbum2021">{{Cite AV media notes |title=] |others=] |date=2021 |type=booklet |publisher=]|id=0 190295 156169}}</ref> ], one of the sub-divisions of ] at that time, retained the masters to Coverdale's first two solo albums, but had been gone out of print ever since.
According to Coverdale, his first two solo works, including Whitesnake material have been digitally copied and possess the ability to be ] and ] but unfortunately cannot be ] at that time. This was a result from the 2008 ], which archived the band's material belonging to ].<ref name="BluesAlbum2021">{{Cite AV media notes |title=] |others=] |date=2021 |type=booklet |publisher=]|id=0 190295 156169}}</ref> ], one of the sub-divisions of ] at that time, retained the masters to Coverdale's first two solo albums, but had been gone out of print ever since.
== History and production ==
''Into the Light: The Solo Albums'' featured musicians that participated from singer ]'s solo albums. His first album ] was released on 20 February 1977 throughout Europe then 6 May in the UK,<ref name="White Snake liner notes">{{Cite AV media notes |title=] |others=David Coverdale |date=2000 |type=booklet |publisher=] |id=6 70211 50752 2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | author-link1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Deep Purple Family | edition = 2nd | publisher = Wymer Publishing | year = 2016 | pages = 221 | isbn = 978-1-908724-42-7}}</ref> featuring then-Whitesnake guitarist, ].<ref name="White Snake liner notes"/> As a first solo effort, Coverdale remarked the record was "a very inward-looking, reflective and low-key affair in many ways, written and recorded as it was in the aftermath of the collapse of ]".<ref name= "white snake album">{{cite web |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/david-coverdale-quits-deep-purple/ |title=45 Years Ago: David Coverdale Quits As Deep Purple Disintegrate |last=DeRiso |first=Nick |date=19 July 2021 |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |publisher=] |access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref> The album title would be later be derived as an inspiration of his future band, which happened after the upcoming album was released.<ref name= "white snake album"/> It was followed by its successor '']'', released on 10 March 1978.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | author-link1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Deep Purple Family | edition = 2nd | publisher = Wymer Publishing | year = 2016 | pages = 234 | isbn = 978-1-908724-42-7}}</ref> The album was viewed in blues-based and R&B influenced rock followed as an "antithesis" of ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/northwinds-mw0000845704 |title=David Coverdale – ''Northwinds'' review |last=Adams |first=Bret |work=] <!--|publisher=]--> |access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/david-coverdale-best-albums-guide |title=David Coverdale: a guide to his best albums |last=Jeffries |first=Neil |date=5 January 2021 |website=] |publisher=Louder |access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref> It was also largely viewed as nothing differentiated compared to ], given that Whitesnake had been compared that group on many occasions.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.popmatters.com/149282-david-coverdale-white-snakenorth-winds-2495941248.html |title=David Coverdale: White Snake / North Winds |last=Valdivia |first=Victor |date=16 October 2011 |website=] |access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref> Decades later, ] was released on 25 September 2000, with its elements featured a more stripped-down and blues-influenced sound that Coverdale "felt appropriate" in his songwriting.<ref>{{cite news |date=10 June 1994 |title=Coverdale fills multiple roles on his Dragonshead solo set |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/747408705/ |work=] |location=Victorville, California, United States |page=13 |via=] |access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref>
Both ''White Snake'' and ''Northwinds'' were originally produced by Deep Purple's then ex-bassist, at that time, ], while ''Into the Light'' was produced by Coverdale himself alongside Doug Bossi, Bjorn Thorsrud, John X. Volaitis and Michael McIntyre being credited as associate producers.<ref name="White Snake liner notes"/><ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=] |others=David Coverdale |date=2000 |type=booklet |publisher=], ] |id=8 26992 02412 7 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=] |others=David Coverdale |date=2000 |type=booklet |publisher=] |id=7243 5 28124 2 4 }}</ref>
Coverdale's first two solo albums were remixed using cutting-edge audio separation software, allowing them to be artificially separated into their individual multi-track stems using ]. Notable examples of this approach are "Time & Again", which separated Coverdale's voice from the original ''Northwinds'' record, allowing it to be featured in piano and string arrangement mixes that had been approached by Coverdale for decades.<ref>{{cite web |title=DAVID COVERDALE's Three Solo Albums To Be Made Available With Remixes, Remasters And Previously Unreleased Tracks |url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/david-coverdales-three-solo-albums-to-be-made-available-with-remixes-remasters-and-previously-unreleased-tracks |website=Blabbermouth |access-date=17 August 2024 |date=16 August 2024}}</ref><ref name="Intothelightpress"/>
== Release and promotion ==
While the three albums were recorded entirely by Coverdale as a solo artist himself, he considered themselves as ] albums. He stated, "As I'm recognized as 'Mr. Whitesnake', I thought, Why not? They're all Whitesnake albums to me... we've remixed them to stand proudly alongside any Whitesnake album."<ref name="Intothelightpress"/> 1997's '']'' was at first originally viewed as a solo album, but was eventually grouped as a "David Coverdale & Whitesnake" album due to ]'s contract demands, making it and '']'' envisioned as "brother and sister albums," respectively due to their sound compared to Whitesnake's recording material.<ref name="Q&A">{{cite magazine |last=Chirazi |first=Steffan |date=25 March 2011 |title=The Growing Pains Of Whitesnake's David Coverdale |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/whitesnake-jimmy-page-and-i-walked-through-manhattan-and-stopped-traffic |website=Louder |publisher=Classic Rock |access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref>
On the morning of 16 August 2024, Coverdale unveiled the announcement of the complication on his ] page.<ref name="Intothelightpress">{{cite web |last1=Coverdale |first1=David |title=Into the Light: The Solo Albums announcement reveal video |url=https://x.com/davidcoverdale/status/1824460940743745569 |website=] |access-date=17 August 2024 |date=16 August 2024}}</ref> A promotional music video from ''Into the Light'' track, "Midnight Blue" was released on the same day.<ref>{{cite web |title=Into the Light: The Solo Albums |url=https://whitesnake.com/into-the-light-solo-albums/ |website=] |access-date=17 August 2024 |date=16 August 2024}}</ref> ''Into the Light: The Solo Albums'' is set to be reissued via ] on 25 October 2024 as a multi-disc box set, featuring remastered and remixed versions of the solo albums, as well as previously unreleased demos. The collection also features music videos alongside a 60-page booklet with photographs featuring an interview with Coverdale. The set will also be released as a double vinyl album with tracks only taken from ''Into the Light'', making the album the first to be issued on vinyl for the first time.<ref name="Intothelightpress"/>
Into the Light: The Solo Albums is a compilation album by British hard rock band Whitesnake, compiling singer-songwriter David Coverdale's solo albums, White Snake (1977), Northwinds (1978) and Into the Light (2000). The title of the complication derives from Coverdale's third solo album. The complication is set to be released via Rhino Records on 25 October 2024.
Background
Between 1977 and 1978, vocalist David Coverdale recorded the first of his two solo albums after the Mark IV dissolution of Deep Purple. Both were released as White Snake and Northwinds and were gone out in many complication sets, more recently The Early Years in 2003. Decades later after the temporary disbandment of Coverdale's formed band Whitesnake, he resumed his solo career as well to explore many forms of music. The resulting 2000 record came out as Into the Light, listing it as his most successful solo album commercially and critically, only that it charted in five countries.
According to Coverdale, his first two solo works, including Whitesnake material have been digitally copied and possess the ability to be restored and remastered but unfortunately cannot be remixed at that time. This was a result from the 2008 Universal Studios fire, which archived the band's material belonging to Geffen Records. Purple Records, one of the sub-divisions of EMI at that time, retained the masters to Coverdale's first two solo albums, but had been gone out of print ever since.
History and production
Into the Light: The Solo Albums featured musicians that participated from singer David Coverdale's solo albums. His first album White Snake was released on 20 February 1977 throughout Europe then 6 May in the UK, featuring then-Whitesnake guitarist, Micky Moody. As a first solo effort, Coverdale remarked the record was "a very inward-looking, reflective and low-key affair in many ways, written and recorded as it was in the aftermath of the collapse of Deep Purple". The album title would be later be derived as an inspiration of his future band, which happened after the upcoming album was released. It was followed by its successor Northwinds, released on 10 March 1978. The album was viewed in blues-based and R&B influenced rock followed as an "antithesis" of Whitesnake 1987. It was also largely viewed as nothing differentiated compared to Led Zeppelin, given that Whitesnake had been compared that group on many occasions. Decades later, Into the Light was released on 25 September 2000, with its elements featured a more stripped-down and blues-influenced sound that Coverdale "felt appropriate" in his songwriting.
Both White Snake and Northwinds were originally produced by Deep Purple's then ex-bassist, at that time, Roger Glover, while Into the Light was produced by Coverdale himself alongside Doug Bossi, Bjorn Thorsrud, John X. Volaitis and Michael McIntyre being credited as associate producers.
Coverdale's first two solo albums were remixed using cutting-edge audio separation software, allowing them to be artificially separated into their individual multi-track stems using artificial intelligence. Notable examples of this approach are "Time & Again", which separated Coverdale's voice from the original Northwinds record, allowing it to be featured in piano and string arrangement mixes that had been approached by Coverdale for decades.
Release and promotion
While the three albums were recorded entirely by Coverdale as a solo artist himself, he considered themselves as Whitesnake albums. He stated, "As I'm recognized as 'Mr. Whitesnake', I thought, Why not? They're all Whitesnake albums to me... we've remixed them to stand proudly alongside any Whitesnake album." 1997's Restless Heart was at first originally viewed as a solo album, but was eventually grouped as a "David Coverdale & Whitesnake" album due to EMI's contract demands, making it and Into the Light envisioned as "brother and sister albums," respectively due to their sound compared to Whitesnake's recording material.
On the morning of 16 August 2024, Coverdale unveiled the announcement of the complication on his Twitter/X page. A promotional music video from Into the Light track, "Midnight Blue" was released on the same day. Into the Light: The Solo Albums is set to be reissued via Rhino Entertainment on 25 October 2024 as a multi-disc box set, featuring remastered and remixed versions of the solo albums, as well as previously unreleased demos. The collection also features music videos alongside a 60-page booklet with photographs featuring an interview with Coverdale. The set will also be released as a double vinyl album with tracks only taken from Into the Light, making the album the first to be issued on vinyl for the first time.
Track listing
All tracks are written by David Coverdale, except where noted.
