Great White formed way back in 1981. Even though the band had its heyday during the 80's Great White's sound was a lot more blues based than the 80's Hard Rock/Glam bands.

Great White drew on the 70's bands for inspiration and this album sees the band pay tribute to 70's acts such as Free, Badfinger, Bad Company and the long lasting Rolling Stones.

Great White plays trustworthy soulful blues-rock with guitarist Mark Kendall's distinctive feel and Jack Russell's strong vocals as center points.

Great White achieved platinum status with both "Once Bitten", which was released in 1987 and "Twice Shy" which came out two years later.

This album was actually recorded back in 1989 hot on the heels of the "Twice Shy" album. The line up for "Revisiting Familiar Waters" is Jack Russell, Mark Kendall, Michael Lardie, Audie Desbrow and Tony Montana.

I question the timing of this release since the market is flooded with cover albums and personally my enthusiasm is very limited even when one of my favorite bands releases a cover album. The best song is Bad Company´s Ready For Love, where singer Jack Russell lets loose and proves he is a very passionate singer. I have to credit Great White for making the impossible - namely making a Status Quo song interesting. The remake of AC/DC´s Sin City is brilliant and you cannot question the qualities of these musicians.

This album was released in America in 2002 on Deadline under the title "Recover". This European release titled "Revisiting Familiar Waters" has two bonus tracks. Van Halen's Unchained is taken from a tribute and besides Russel plus Kendall has Dweezil Zappa on guitar. The second bonus is a lousy remix of Sin City

"Revisiting Familiar Waters" is just released in Scandinavia and as always Mausoleum releases has a cool packaging with an extensive booklet.

The overall rating is the average of the performance (7) and creativity of the concept (3)

Written by Michael
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
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Comment by Nicodim (Anonymous) - Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Hi, I've the same album (if to compare track listing), but it's called "Recover" and released back in 2002 if to believe record label Deadline Music. Here in Russia it was released under the license from Deadline Music and has only one difference from reviewed album. We don't have AC/DC cover Sin City (I mean not the album version, but Rosetta Stone Mix) and we don't have Unchained at all. Instead we have a song called Burning House Of Love and written by X. BTW, I liked this covers made by GW. Great as usuall. ;)

Comment by Brian (Staff) - Sunday, August 20, 2006

View Profile Comments: 81 Hi Nicodim, for info, Deadline have just released another GW CD, titled 'Rock Me, the best of'. It contains 9 of the tracks on 'Recover' and 8 of the tracks on 'Revisiting...' plus 'Rock Me', 'Once Bitten,Twice Shy' and 'Save Your Love'. Posted by Brian (Staff) Sunday, August 20, 2006

Comment by Running_Free (Anonymous) - Thursday, March 8, 2007

Great mix, I'm looking forward to checking out Great White's Led Zep cover album soon. I'd rate RFW at 8 simply for tracks 12 & 13. I agree Ready For Love is good but the psychoholic bonus tracks are more my speed.