Original released on LP Warner Bros WS 1953
(US, November 1971)
Debut album by very young Bonnie Raitt who was fresh as daisy at the time of this recording but knew what she wanted and cherry picked good, strong songs - there are some very good self-penned originals ("Finest Lovin' Man","Thank You") mixed with soulful covers ("Danger Heartbreak Ahead") and her love for older blues tradition clear from the start as she covered two songs from repertoire of her heroine, blues singer Sippie Wallace who was known as "Texas nightingale" in her golden days. What I find particulary attractive here - and it wasn't Raitt's intention - is the way her young self attacks these old blues songs with that young voice,it is actually very endearing to hear that still young girl boasting in "Mighty Tight Woman" and its perfect note by note just funny to hear coming from such young sweet thing. Of course there is nothing fake or posing in Bonnie Raitt, she was dead serious about following any blues mama in that territory but it's like hearing your younger sister channeling to Robert Johnson, you want to hug and kiss her. Music wise, it sounds rough at the places but there is nothing bad with it, it's just that later studio recordings will became more polished and the atmosphere here is of a bunch of friends playing together, which was actually a fact - just look at them on the back cover and it shows. Raitt probably smiles every time she sees this album and I could almost hear her saying «God, I was so young here!» (in RateYourMusic)
DISCOGRAPHY
(Born November 8, 1949, Burbank, CA, United States)
1971-11 LP BONNIE RAITT (US Warner Bros WS
1953): A1. Bluebird; A2. Mighty Tight Woman; A3. Thank You; A4. Finest Lovin’
Man; A5. Any Day Woman; B1. Big Road; B2. Walking Blues; B3. Danger Heartbreak
Dead Ahead; B4. Since I Fell for You; B5. I Ain’t Blue; B6. Women Be Wise
1972-09 LP GIVE IT UP (US Warner Bros BS
2643): A1. Give It Up or Let Me Go; A2. Nothing Seems to Matter; A3. I Know;
A4. If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody; A5. Love Me Like a Man; B1. Too Long
at the Fair; B2. Under the Falling Sky; B3. You Got to Know How; B4. You Told
Me Baby; B5. Love Has No Pride
1973-03-05 LP TAKIN’ MY TIME (US Warner Bros
BS 2729): A1. You’ve Been in Love Too Long; A2. I Gave My Love a Candle; A3.
Let Me In; A4. Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy; A5. Cry Like a Rainstorm; B1. Wah She
Go Do; B2. I Feel the Shame; B3. I Tought I Was a Child; B4. Write Me a Few of
Your Lines / Kokomo Blues; B5. Guilty
1974-09 LP STREETLIGHTS (US Warner Bros BS 2818): A1.
That Song About the Midway; A2. Rainy Day Man; A3. Angel from Montgomery; A4. I
Got Plenty; A5. Streetlights; B1. What Is Success; B2. Ain’t Nobody Home; B3.
Everything That Touches You; B4. Got You on My Mind; B5. You Got to Be Ready
for Love (If You Wanna Be Mine)
1975 LP HOMEPLATE (US Warner Bros BS 2864): A1. What
Do You Want the Boy to Do; A2. Good Enough; A3. Run Like a Thief; A4. Fool
Yourself; A5. My First Night Alone Without You; B1. Walk Out the Front Door;
B2. Sugar Mama; B3. Pleasin’ Each Other; B4. I’m Blowin’ Away; B5. Your Sweet
and Shiny Eyes
1977-04 LP SWEET FORGIVENESS (US Warner
Bros BS 2990): A1. About to Make Me Leave Home; A2. Runaway; A3. Two Lives; A4.
Louise; A5. Gamblin’ Man; B1. Sweet Forgiveness; B2. My Opening Farewell; B3.
Three Time Loser; B4. Takin’ My Time; B5. Home
1979 LP THE GLOW (US Warner Bros HS 3368): A1. I Thank
You; A2. Your Good Thing (Is About to End); A3. Standin’ by the Same Old Love;
A4. Sleep’s Dark and Silent Gate; A5. The Glow; B1. Bye Bye Baby; B2. The Boy
Can’t Help It; B3. (I Could Have Been Your) Best Old Friend; B4. You’re Gonna
Get What’s Coming; B5. (Goin’) Wild for You Baby
1982 LP GREEN LIGHT (US Warner Bros BSK 3630): A1.
Keep This Heart in Mind; A2. River of Tears; A3. Can’t Get Enough; A4. Willya
Wontcha; A5. Let’s Keep It Between Us; B1. Me and the Boys; B2. I Can’t Help
Myself; B3. Baby Come Back; B4. Talk to Me; B5. Green Lights
1986 LP NINE LIVES (US Warner Bros 9.25486-1): A1. No
Way to Treat a Lady; A2. Runnin’ Back to Me; A3. But a Fool (ThiefInto
Paradise); A4. Crime of Passion; A5. All Day, All Night; B1. Stand Up to the
Night; B2. Excited; B3. Freezin’ (For a Little Human Love); B4. True Love Is
Hard to Find; B5. Angel
1989-03-21 LP NICK OF TIME (US Capitol
C1-91268): A1. Nick of Time; A2. Thing Called Love; A3. Love Letter; A4. Cry on
My Shoulder; A5. Real Man; A6. Nobody’s Girl; B1. Have a Heart; B2. Too Soon to
Tell; B3. I Will Not Be Denied; B4. I Ain’t Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again;
B5. The Road’s My Middle Name
1991-06-25 CD LUCK OF THE DRAW (US Capitol
C2-96111): 1. Something to Talk About; 2. Good Man, Good Woman; 3. I Can’t Make
You Love Me; 4. Tangled and Dark; 5. Come to Me; 6. No Business; 7. One Part Be
My Lover; 8. Not the Only One; 9. Papa Come Quick (Jody and Chico); 10. Slow
Ride; 11. Luck of the Draw; 12. All at Once
1994-03-22 CD LONGING IN THEIR HEARTS (US
Capitol CDP 581427): 1. Love Sneakin’ Up on You; 2. Longing in Their Hearts; 3.
You; 4. Cool, Clear Water; 5. Circle Dance; 6. I Sho Do; 7. Dimming of the Day;
8. Feeling of Falling; 9. Steal Your Heart Away; 10. Storm Warning; 11. Hell to
Pay; 12. Shadow of Doubt
1995-11 CD ROAD TESTED (LIVE) (US Capitol
7243.8.33705.2.8): 1. Thing Called Love; 2. Something to Talk About; 3. Never
Make You Move Too Soon; 4. Shake a Little; 5. Matters of the Heart; 6. Love Me
Like a Man; 7. The Kokomo Medley; 8. My Opening Farewell; 9. Dimming of the
Day; 10. Longing in Their Hearts; 11. Love Sneakin’ Up on You; 12. Burnin’ Down
the House; 13. I Can’t Make You Love Me; 14. I Believe I’m in Love With You; 15.
Rock Steady; 16. Angel From Montgomery
1998-04 CD FUNDAMENTAL (US Capitol CDP
7243.8.56397.2.2): 1. The Fundamental Things; 2. Cure for Love; 3. Round &
Round; 4. Spit of Love; 5. Lovers Will; 6. Blue for No Reason; 7. Meet Me
Halfway; 8. I’m on Your Side; 9. Fearless Love; 10. I Need Love; 11. One Belief
Away
2002-04-09 CD SILVER LINING (US Capitol CDP
7243.5.31816.2.8): 1. Fool’s Game; 2. I Can’t Help You Now; 3. Silver Lining;
4. Time of Our Lives; 5. Gnawin’ on It; 6. Monkey Business; 7. Wherever You May
Be; 8. Valley of Pain; 9. Hear Me Lord; 10. No Getting’ Over You; 11. Back
Around; 12. Wounded Heart
2005-09-13 CD SOULS ALIKE (US Capitol CDP
7243.473.628.2.8): 1. I Will Not Be Broken; 2. God Was in the Water; 3. Love on
One Conditon; 4. So Close; 5. Trinkets; 6. Crooked Crown; 7. Unnecessarily
Mercenary; 8. I Don’t Want Anything to Change; 9. Deep Water; 10. Two Lights in
the Nighttime; 11. The Best I Made
2006-08-15 CD BONNIE RAITT AND FRIENDS (LIVE) (US
Capitol 9463.70588.2.4): 1. Introduction; 2. Unnecessarily Mercenary; 3. I Will
Not Be Broken; 4. God Was in the Water; 5. Gnawin’ on It; 6. You; 7. Love
Letter; 8. Two Lights in the Nighttime; 9. Well, Well, Well; 10. Something to
Talk About; 11. I Don’t Want Anything to Change; 12. Love Sneakin’ Up on You
2012-04-10 CD SLIPSTREAM (US Redwing RWR001):
1. I Used to Rule the World; 2. Right Down the Line; 3. Million Miles; 4. You
Can’t Fail Me Now; 5. Down to You; 6. Take My Love With You; 7. Not Cause I
Wanted To; 8. Ain’t Gonna Let You Go; 9. Marriage Made in Hollywood; 10. Split
Decision; 11. Standing in the Doorway; 12. God Only Knows
2016-02-26 CD DIG IN DEEP (US Redwing RWR032):
1. Unintended Consequence of Love; 2. Need You Tonight; 3. I Knew; 4. All Alone
With Something to Say; 5. What You’re Doin’ to Me; 6. Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes;
7. Undone; 8. If You Need Somebody; 9. Gypsy in Me; 10. The Comin’ Round Is
Going Through; 11. You’ve Changed My Mind; 12. The Ones We Couldn’t Be
