David Coverdale might’ve quit Deep Purple and started Whitesnake back in the late ’70s, but he’s not letting the group’s stop-and-start nature — the band split around 1990 before reuniting for a 1997 album and then breaking up again until 2002 — keep it from releasing a new album, Flesh & Blood.
In a press release, Coverdale used the phrase “light snake” to describe the album’s “Shut Up & Kiss Me” single. “We’ve got some really dark energy going on in the world right now, so we wrote a fun, knees up, song about falling in love with a fabulous babe,” he said. “You’re over-talking, over-compensating & she just looks at you, takes the reins and says, ‘Shut Up and Kiss Me!’ and that’s it!” Don’t forcefully kiss anyone when the band plays Ruth Eckerd Hall.
Whitesnake w/The Black Moods. Tues. April 23. Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater. rutheckerdhall.com.
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This article appears in Apr 18-25, 2019.