| Turning to Crime | ||||
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| Released | 26 November 2021 | |||
| Studio | Real World Studios (Wiltshire) | |||
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| Length | 49:45 | |||
| Label | earMUSIC | |||
| Producer | Bob Ezrin | |||
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Turning to Crime is the twenty-second album by English rock band Deep Purple. Released on 26 November 2021, it is composed entirely of covers, [1] and is the last Deep Purple album to feature guitarist Steve Morse before he left the band in July 2022.
Turning to Crime was created following a suggestion by Bob Ezrin, Deep Purple's producer since 2013. [2] Released about fifteen months after Whoosh! , this marked the first time since 1975's Come Taste the Band that Deep Purple had released a new studio album just one year after their previous one.
The track "The Battle of New Orleans" marks the first time Roger Glover has performed vocals of any kind on a Deep Purple studio recording.
A 13th Track "(I'm a) Road Runner" was released as a download for describers on October 6, 2021, and later on the Limited Edition 5×12″ Vinyl Box Set, as the B-side of "7 and 7 Is".
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| Source | Rating |
| Classic Rock |   [3] |
| laut.de | [4] |
| Louder Sound | [5] |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original artist | Length |
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| 1. | "7 and 7 Is" | Arthur Lee | Love | 2:28 |
| 2. | "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" | Huey "Piano" Smith | Huey "Piano" Smith | 3:15 |
| 3. | "Oh Well" | Peter Green | Fleetwood Mac | 4:21 |
| 4. | "Jenny Take a Ride!" | Bob Crewe | Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels | 4:36 |
| 5. | "Watching the River Flow" | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | 3:02 |
| 6. | "Let the Good Times Roll" | Sam Theard, Fleecie Moore | Louis Jordan & the Tympany Five | 4:22 |
| 7. | "Dixie Chicken" | Lowell George, Fred Martin | Little Feat | 4:43 |
| 8. | "Shapes of Things" | Jim McCarty, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith | Yardbirds / Jeff Beck Group | 3:40 |
| 9. | "The Battle of New Orleans" | Jimmy Driftwood | Johnny Horton | 2:51 |
| 10. | "Lucifer" | Bob Seger | The Bob Seger System | 3:45 |
| 11. | "White Room" | Jack Bruce, Pete Brown | Cream | 4:53 |
| 12. | "Caught in the Act"
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| 7:49 | |
| Total length: | 49:45 | |||
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