Turning to Crime

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
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)

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.^{[citation needed]}

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 Turning To Crime liner notes^[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, percussion (7), vocals (9)
• Ian Paice – drums (all tracks), percussion (7)
• 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