Bonnie Raitt: Sweet Forgiveness [Warner Bros., 1977]Although Paul Rothchild edited Bonnie's road band as painstakingly as he did the El Lay pros of Home Plate, this came out sounding unfashionably raw, almost live, because instead of punching in the perfect note and the clean tone he went for the most intense moment available from months of takes. I don't like "Runaway," which is flat and plodding and wrong for her, and I wish there were a stunner like "Good Enough" or "Sweet and Shiny Eyes" here. But Bonnie is singing rougher than ever before. Anyone who can induce me to dance to Eric Kaz has got to be doing some kind of job. A-
>>128223529i don't think there has ever been a thread about Bonnie Raitt in /mu/ history
my dad's favourite singer
>>128223566>>128223639That's the spooky thing... when anon's dad's generation is gone, the only places you'll ever stumble upon her again will be clueless thrift stores who put any old records up for sale. No Stranger Things comeback for Bonnie. Her biggest mistake was never making a "cred" album, like Wrecking Ball or Revival or Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Did Ronstadt ever make one of those?
One of Christgau's favorite musicfus and why is the captcha taking 15 seconds to load?
>>128223725yeah no really standout songs
>>128223529>>128223566Her 70s albums were critic favorites but none of them really sold anything except SF and then she wouldn't have another significant hit until Nick of Time at the end of the 80s when Capitol gave her a huge promotional push and that was a big album at the time.
Her best album before she made it big in the late '80s/early '90s is the 1972 Give It Up.
>>128223951>>128223907It's not everyone who takes until they're almost 40 to finally "make it"
The DVD of Road Tested is worth picking up if you like the recording as some of the band was involved in the surround mix. Too many guest stars for my taste but all is right in the world when she plays the Kokomo medley.
>>128224112>Anon's recommending Bonnie Raitt DVDsIncredible. Where on this godforsaken board are guys like you usually hanging out, other than (I assume) Xgau threads?
It's a major disappointment that she took until the mid-90s to do a proper live album and there's none from the 70s, live recordings from that time are limited to boots.
>>128223529Bonnie has no bad albums I would say, I most prefer the first three when she was at her youngest and freshest, and there's also no decent Greatest Hits comp of the WB era. The Bonnie Raitt Collection is an artist-selected best-of but there's no real logic to any of the picks and it feels like she just wrote a bunch of random song titles on slips of paper, put them in a hat, grabbed them out of it, and put whatever she got on TBC.
she's a dyke
>>128224203I always thought her live performances beat any of the albums.
>>128223907>Her 70s albums were critic favorites but none of them really sold anything except SFbtw you can find original vinyl copies in good condition most of the time because her audience was a relatively niche hipster demo and they tended to take good care of their stuff unlike standard 70s rawk albums that teenagers owned and beat the shit out of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76SNpDXOwqoHere's track 1 from the original vinyl mix, her "official" channel has some gay remaster version. Nice funk rock btw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkLvCKphIMkTrack 2, also original mix.
>>128224382good luck finding an original Zeppelin or ZZ Top vinyl that doesn't look like it was dug out of the ruins of the World Trade Center
>>128224647buy vg+ only!
>>128224297+a trust fund kid descended from Scottish nobility
>>128223566she's just okay, but at least her music is better than cuckgau's reviews>>128224297really?
