Tonight’s mystery artist when he is not performing with his Rock and Roll Hall of fame band he is on stage with a different band dressed in medieval outfits. Any guesses who our split personality might be??

I is an unusual thought mostly because the band we know him best for was cited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the worlds loudest band which as we all know is ‘Deep Purple’ And our Renaissance man is none other than Ritchie Blackmore. Not everyone knows but in-between his stints with Purple, Blackmore leaves the heavy stuff on the backburner and concentrates, instead, on Renaissance music with his group Blackmores Night. He mused to Guitar.com, how odd it is to go from such a notoriously loud band ‘Deep Purple’ to one of the most quiet band in the world," Blackmore says. In fact, Blackmore's Night is so quiet on stage that it's very difficult to play certain things with people [in the audience] shouting. We have a lot of people on stage all dressed up in medieval outfits. And our fans know that if they come to our shows, they can dress up. It's like a Renaissance festival.

Here is tonight’s featured song and it’s no Renaissance festival I assure you.

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