Walking in the Shadow of the Blues

Coverdale and Marsden wrote it, and the studio version on Lovehunter runs 4:26, recorded in May 1979 at Clearwell Castle with Martin Birch producing. Coverdale has said it really summed up my musical approach of the time. Via a blog quoting Geoff Barton in Louder, he called the lyric very autobiographical, said it more or less wrote itself and that he and Marsden put the music together very quickly. AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia praised near-perfect songwriting with one of Coverdale's maturest and most compelling lyrics, and Dave Ling called it a textbook fusion of blues, hard rock and melody.

A live version, 5:00, recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in June 1980, is track three on side one of Live... in the Heart of the City (UK 5), and another is on the 2006 live set Live... in the Shadow of the Blues. Setlist.fm counts 213 plays across 1,589 Whitesnake setlists from 1978 to 2022. We found no video, covers or samples, and cannot say which version our upload carries.