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Nick Of Time [CD]

Bonnie Raitt Audio CD
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With the release of her nineteenth album, Slipstream, Bonnie Raitt is starting anew. The album marks her return to studio recording after seven years; it's coming out as the launch of her own label, Redwing Records; and it delivers some of the most surprising and rewarding music of her remarkable career, thanks in part to some experimental sessions with celebrated producer Joe ... Read more in Amazon's Bonnie Raitt Store

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  • Audio CD (16 April 1990)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B000002UU5
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  DVD Audio  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 15,183 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  4. Cry On My Shoulder 3:44£0.89  Buy MP3 
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Listen  6. Nobody's Girl 3:14£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Have A Heart 4:50£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Too Soon To Tell 3:45£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. I Will Not Be Denied 4:55£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. I Ain't Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again 2:38£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. The Road's My Middle Name 3:31£0.89  Buy MP3 


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Nick of Time is the watershed moment in Bonnie Raitt's recording career, the sound of a survivor finding new focus and purpose in her art after nearly 20 years of generally superb, commercially underachieving recordings. An exquisite interpretive singer and formidable guitarist who'd long ago honed her bluesy chops, Raitt raised the stakes by mixing the usual gourmet spread of smart cover choices with her own candid songs--and she knocked one over the fence with the opening track, the album's title song and a moving confession of a boomer's anxieties about age, death, and the impermanence of love. "Nick of Time" catapulted a feisty rock tomboy into a new station that made her as admired by female fans as the stage door johnnies who'd long loved her rock technique, and she covered the bet with other outside songs from John Hiatt ("Thing Called Love"), Bonnie Hayes ("Love Letter", "Have a Heart"), and Jerry L. Williams ("Real Man") that resonated with her persona as a tough, smart, but ultimately tender woman. --Sam Sutherland

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(1989 'Captitol')(42:59/11)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Are you ready for Bonnie Raitt? 20 Oct 2008
By G. E. Harrison TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
This was supposedly Bonnie's comeback record after she had been dropped by Warners in the mid-80s, along with similar artists such as Van Morrison. Don Was was brought in as producer and the resulting record was a return to the format of her best Warner's albums, ie a mixture of blues, ballads, folk and rock. Despite good critical response her previous records had never really sold well but 'Nick of Time got great reviews, won Grammies AND sold millions. I think it deserved to (but then again I think many of her previous albums should have) it sounds great, it has some good, commercial songs and Bonnie and her fabulous voice are the centre of everything.

She rocks out on tracks like John Hiatt's wonderful "Thing Called Love", "Real Man" and "I Will Not Be Denied" and also her own uptempo blues "The Road Is My Middle Name". For me it's the ballads that again are the standout tracks - "Cry On My Shoulder" and "Too Soon To Tell" and especially the marvellous "Nobody's Girl". There are also some nice mid-tempo commercial numbers like "Love Letter" and "Have a Heart". Bonnie also shows her versatility with the jazz-leaning "I ain't gonna let you break my heart again" (with Herbie Hancock on piano) but personally this isn't one of my favourite tracks.

Full marks to Don Was for achieving what a succession of produces before him couldn't do in giving Bonnie a best-selling album. I just hope Capital is aware what a wonderful artist they have in Bonnie Raitt.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Real woman 24 Jan 2012
By GlynLuke TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
There is a constant running through Bonnie Raitt`s many albums, a 24-carat guarantee of quality: that voice. It never lets you down. She is one of those rare singers who really could sing just about anything and you wouldn`t need to hear it sung by anyone else.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a singer who has made enough records will eventually take to the middle of the road, so it`s no surprise to find a glossier shine, a more obviously radio-friendly allure to this massive-selling `breakthrough` album. Listening to it now - and I am - what I hear is one of the finest blues/rock/soul singers of our time having a ball, albeit a slightly less abandoned one than on her previous, bluesier releases.
Bonnie has always had unerring taste in her choice of songs, and here is no exception. Anyone who latched on to the eloquent songs of the great John Hiatt (rather aptly spelt `Haitt` on the back cover!) as far back as 1989 is to be applauded, and she does his Thing Called Love proud. (There`s an even gutsier version on her marvellous live recording Road Tested.)
Jerry Williams wrote a good half of Clapton`s exceptional album Journeyman, and Bonnie sings his Real Man - not a particularly memorable song, it has to be said - with soulful aplomb.
Her own title track and bluesy closer The Road`s My Middle Name are superb. She has always been an excellent songwriter, rationing her contributions on her run of albums. It`s good to have two of them here.
I Ain`t Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again is Bonnie in break-your-heart mode, the heart being broken being the grateful listener`s. Boy, can this woman sing!
From what I can discern, Bonnie not only has perfect pitch, or as near as dammit, but seems to know instinctively how to pace and phrase a song. I`ve never once detected a lapse of taste on any one of her albums.
There are two terrific songs here by Bonnie Hayes, Love Letter and the catchy, reggae-ish Have A Heart. This is where the production by Don Was proves both a boon and a bind. Its clarity and punch come across, but a certain raggedy abandon - found in plenty on her releases up to this point - is sacrificed. Never mind, the gains far outweigh the losses on this very fine, varied disc.
The peach of the crop is a song by one half of the duo who wrote the ineffably sublime I Can`t Make You Love Me (on her follow-up, Luck Of The Draw) another ballad called Too Soon To Tell. Bonnie sings a ballad like this with as much worldly, lived-in gravitas as Etta James or Dinah Washington. I speak of her in such illustrious company? You bet I do. She has what Whitney, Mariah, Shania & Celine and the other caterwaulers could only wish for in their dreams...
The more I play Nick Of Time the more I can`t be without it. If it doesn`t showcase Bonnie at her absolute best (seek out her first few records for that) it`s only that her absolute best is beyond star-ratings and into the stratosphere. However, this grower will do very nicely. As I said, the one constant is always Bonnie`s immaculate voice. That gold standard never diminishes.
A real woman? Oh yes!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Grammy win gives Bonnie big breakthrough 4 Feb 2005
By Peter Durward Harris #1 HALL OF FAME TOP 10 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
Bonnie's recording career with Warner career had ended with some critics thinking that she was finished as a recording artist. They - and Warner - were proved wrong with this, her Capitol debut album, which was more successful than any of her Warner albums. The basic blues-rock style is still there, but this album is a little smoother, so appealing to a wider public. Winning a Grammy award for this album further boosted Bonnie's career.

The album is mainly filled with moody ballads, perhaps reflecting Bonnie's personal life when the album was recorded although Bonnie only wrote two songs - the first track (Nick of time) and the last track (The road's my middle name). The tempo picks up slightly for Thing called love (a John Hiatt song, not to be confused with the completely different Johnny Cash song with a similar title), Real man and The road's my middle name.

Apart from singing, Bonnie plays an instrument on most tracks - one of piano, guitar or slide guitar. Bonnie is supported by a variety of musicians, usually between three and five per track. Two tracks feature just one instrument each, giving them a folksy feel. On Nobody's girl, Bonnie sings while Chuck Domanico plays acoustic bass. On I ain't gonna let you break my heart again, Bonnie sings while Herbie Hancock plays piano.

This is an excellent album, well deserving of all the accolades - but then, a lot of Bonnie's earlier music deserved such accolades and didn't get them.

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