Songs of White Lion

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Songs of White Lion
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Studio album of re-recorded songsby
Released14 April 2023
Genre Hard rock
Length55:56
Label Frontiers Music
Producer Mike Tramp, Soren Andersen
Mike Tramp chronology
Everything Is Alright
(2021)
Songs of White Lion
(2023)
Singles from Songs of White Lion
  1. "Cry for Freedom"
    Released: 2023
  2. "Little Fighter"
    Released: 2023

Songs of White Lion is an album by Mike Tramp featuring new re-recorded versions of White Lion songs, released via Frontiers Music on 14 April 2023. As the title implies, the new album sees Tramp re-imagining select cuts from his former band White Lion's catalog, including the bands biggest hits: "When the Children Cry", "Wait", and "Little Fighter". [1]

Contents

Background

Songs of White Lion comes only one year after his most recent release in 2022, For Første Gang, the album which Tramp sung a full set of songs entirely in Danish for the first time in his career. [2] [3]

The album follows Tramp's previous release of re-recorded White Lion songs when he was first attempting to reform White Lion in 1999, on the album Remembering White Lion . To avoid legal issues with former members, the band was known as Tramp's White Lion when that album was re-released in 2004 under the title Last Roar. [4]

Since 2009, following White Lion's last studio album Return of the Pride , Tramp has been writing and recording as a solo artist releasing nine studio albums, Songs of White Lion is a tribute to Tramp's most successful band of his career. With various incarnations of White Lion leading to 2008's studio reunion, this album completes the circle. [5]

Release

A re-recorded "Cry for Freedom" was released as the first single for "Songs of White Lion", [6] followed by a reworked take on "Little Fighter". [7]

Mike Tramp will embark on an extensive U.S. tour in May 2023. The Songs of White Lion trek, which was originally supposed to take place in April/May 2020, will see Tramp performing all the White Lion hits. [8]

Track listing

Songs of White Lion track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Lady of the Valley"6:47
2."Little Fighter"4:30
3."Broken Heart"4:12
4."Love Don't Come Easy"3:38
5."Hungry"4:20
6."Cry for Freedom"4:28
7."Goin' Home Tonight"4:37
8."Wait"4:16
9."All the Fallen Men"4:38
10."Living on the Edge"4:43
11."Tell Me"4:42
12."When the Children Cry"5:05
13."Cry for Freedom - Alternative version" (Japanese bonus track)4:25
Total length:55:56

Personnel

Band members

Production

Charts

Chart performance for Songs of White Lion
Chart (2023)Peak
position
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [9] 69

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