Turning to Crime

2021 studio album by Deep Purple

Turning to Crime

Studio album by

Deep Purple

Released

26 November 2021

Studio

Real World Studios (Wiltshire)

Genre

Blues rock
hard rock

Length

49:45

Label

earMUSIC

Producer

Bob Ezrin

Deep Purple chronology

Whoosh!
(2020)

Turning to Crime
(2021)

=1
(2024)

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.

Background and recording

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 since Woman from Tokyo in 1973 that Roger Glover has performed vocals 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".

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Classic Rock	^[3]
laut.de	^[4]
Louder Sound	^[5]

Track listing

*Turning to Crime* track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original artist	Length
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" a. "Going Down" b. "Green Onions" c. "Hot 'Lanta" d. "Dazed and Confused" e. "Gimme Some Lovin'"	a. Don Nix b. Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Lewie Steinberg, Al Jackson Jr. c. Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks, Berry Oakley, Jai Johanny Johanson d. Jake Holmes, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant e. Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood	a. Moloch b. Booker T & the MGs c. Allman Brothers Band d. Jake Holmes e. Spencer Davis Group	7:49
Total length:				49:45

Personnel

Credits per discogs^[6]

Deep Purple

Ian Gillan – vocals (all tracks), backing vocals (2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11), percussion (3, 7)
Steve Morse – guitars (all tracks), vocals (9)
Roger Glover – bass (all tracks), additional keyboards (1), backing vocals and percussion (7), vocals (9)
Ian Paice – drums (all tracks)
Don Airey – keyboards (all tracks)

Musicians

Bob Ezrin – backing vocals (2, 5, 7, 8, 10–12), vocals (9)
Leo Green – tenor saxophone (2, 6), horns arrangement (2)
Matt Holland – trumpet (2, 6)
Nicole Thalia – backing vocals (4, 6, 12)
Marsha B. Morrison – backing vocals (4, 6, 12)
Gina Forsyth – fiddle (9)
Bruce Daigrepont – squeeze box (9)
Julian Shank – percussion (10)

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for *Turning to Crime*
Chart (2021)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[7]	5
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[8]	29
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[9]	22
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)^[10]	8
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[11]	25
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)^[12]	6
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[13]	5
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)^[14]	24
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[15]	24
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[16]	21
Polish Albums (ZPAV)^[17]	9
Scottish Albums (OCC)^[18]	12
Slovak Albums (ČNS IFPI)^[19]	95
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)^[20]	50
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[21]	14
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[22]	4
UK Albums (OCC)^[23]	28
UK Independent Albums (OCC)^[24]	1
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)^[25]	1

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for *Turning to Crime*
Chart (2021)	Position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[26]	92
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[27]	95

References

^ Roger Glover On New Deep Purple Album 'Turning To Crime' - Forbes. 26 November 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
^ Deep Purple Talk Covers LP, Why a 'Long Goodbye' Was Premature - Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
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^ Vogel, Yan. "Das erste reine Coveralbum der Hardrock-Ikonen" (in German). laut.de. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
^ Barton, Geoff (25 November 2021). "Deep Purple have an absolute blast on Turning To Crime". Louder Sound. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
^ Deep Purple - Turning To Crime, 26 November 2021, retrieved 6 August 2022
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^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Deep Purple – Turning to Crime" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
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^ "Album Top 40 slágerlista – 2021. 49. hét" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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^ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
^ "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
^ "Jahrescharts 2021 Album". GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
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