The Rock Album is a compilation album by British-American rock band Whitesnake, released on 19 June 2020 through Rhino Records. The album contains "revisited, remixed and remastered" versions of previously released songs, and is the first in a series called Red, White and Blues Trilogy including also red's Love Songs (2020) and blue's The Blues Album (2021).

Content According to the album's executive producer David Coverdale, some songs "have been musically embellished where my co-producer Michael McIntyre, my new mixer Christopher Collier and I felt it appropriate or necessary to bring out the best in these songs."

The Rock Album includes a new song, "Always the Same", originally recorded for the band's 2019 album Flesh & Blood.

Commercial performance In the United States, The Rock Album sold 1,625 copies in the first week of release, and 500 copies on the following week.

Track listing

Charts The vinyl LP charted on the UK Official Vinyl Albums Chart at the 39th position.

+Chart performance for The Rock Album Chart (2020) Peakposition Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan) 36

Credits Credits are adapted from the complication album's liner notes. For original album credits, see Slide It In, 1987, Slip of the Tongue, Restless Heart, Into the Light, Good to Be Bad, Forevermore

Whitesnake (Always the Same) (see Flesh & Blood credits) David Coverdale – vocals Reb Beach – guitar Joel Hoekstra – guitar Michael Devin – bass guitar Tommy Aldridge – drums Michele Luppi – keyboards, backing vocals

Technical (Always the Same) Michael McIntyre – engineering & recording Christopher 'Muffin Man' Collier – mixing & mastering Scott Hull – mastering (at Masterdisk, New York)Management David Coverdale — executive producer Michael McIntyre — producer Hugh Gilmour — A&R

Technical Christopher 'Muffin Man' Collier – remixing & mastering Scott Hull — remastering Tom Gordon — 2nd engineer & QC Jeremiah Wynn — 2nd engineer & QC

Design Hugh Gilmour — art direction, design

Other Brian Dodd — product manager Ellys Airey — production & packaging manager

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