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Track Listings
| 1. You've Been In Love Too Long |
| 2. I Gave My Love A Candle |
| 3. Let Me In |
| 4. Everybody's Cryin' Mercy |
| 5. Cry Like A Rainstorm |
| 6. Wah She Go Do |
| 7. I Feel The Same |
| 8. I Thought I Was A Child |
| 9. Write Me A Few Of Your Lines / Kokomo Blues |
| 10. Guilty |
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Along with Give It Up, Bonnie Raitt's third album, Takin' My Time, stands as her finest work prior to her 1989 critical and commercial watershed, Nick of Time. Featuring an eclectic mix of pop, rock, blues, and soul, the material ranges from Eric Kaz's powerful ballad "Cry Like a Rainstorm" and Jackson Browne's "I Thought I Was a Child" to the snappy acoustic blues of Mississippi Fred McDowell's "Write Me a Few of Your Lines/Kokomo Blues" and the charming calypso "Wah She Go Do." Raitt is backed on the album by members of Little Feat as well as Taj Mahal, legendary New Orleans drummer Earl Palmer, and Rolling Stones sax man Ernie Watts, giving the album a loose, grooving vibe. Her versions of Mose Allison's smoldering "Everybody's Cryin' Mercy" and Randy Newman's sly "Guilty" are real standouts. --Daniel Durchholz
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2002 Remaster of eclectic 1973 classic featuring brilliant covers of Jackson Browne & Randy Newman songs
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A decade and a half before Bonnie captured the public imagination with her 1989 album, Nick of time, she was already building a solid reputation with her blend of blues, rock and folk music, of which this album is a fine example although the blues are the dominant influence here. It may not have been what mainstream commercial radio stations were looking for at the time but, like Bonnie's other early albums, continues to sell steadily while many bigger-selling artists of the time are now represented only by greatest hits compilations.
One reason why Bonnie's music stands the test of time so well is her uncanny ability to pick great songs that suited her outstanding, bluesy voice. Bonnie was also able to persuade some of the finest musicians of the day to play on her albums. On this album, the musicians include members of Little Feat (Lowell George among them), Taj Mahal and the brilliant saxophonist, Ernie Watts.
The set opens with You've been in love too long, a cover of a brilliant but relatively unknown Motown song that Barbara Acklin and Martha Reeves recorded. Bonnie doesn't usually cover Motown but her choice here is impeccable. More predictably, Bonnie covers songs written by some of the finest blues and rock songwriters such as Mose Allison (Everybody's crying mercy), Eric Kaz (Cry like a rainstorm), Jackson Browne (I thought I was a child), Fred McDowell (Write me a few of your lines / Kokomo blues) and Randy Newman (Guilty).
Maybe this isn't the place to begin a collection of Bonnie's music but it should be a high priority if you are interested in collecting at least some of her original albums.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
From the wonderful cover, to the great selection of songs, the wonderful musicians (as well as Little Feat there is Taj Mahal, Earl Palmer, Jim Keltner, Van Dyke Parks, Milt Holland etc) and above all Bonnie's fabulous voice; this was a landmark recording that still remains one of her best records. I bought this LP when it first came out in 1973 because of Little Feat's involvement but it quickly became one of my all time favourite records of all time and I've remained a huge Bonnie Raitt fan ever since. Lowell George started producing the sessions with Little Feat as the backing band but after weeks of partying in the studio very little had been recorded and guitarist John Hall was brought in the finish the project. He did a great job!
We set off with a bang with the funky "You've been in love too long" (great drumming), then slow down for the moody, acoustic "I gave my love a candle" before returning to the up-tempo jazzy groove of "Let me in". Bonnie completely nails the mellow, hipster-jive of Mose Allison's "Everybody's crying mercy", which features some nice Lowell George slide guitar. Then we have the beautiful Eric Kaz ballad "Cry like a rainstorm", with lovely restrained vocals from Bonnie and great harp from Taj Mahal. (I remember a review in Rolling Stone at the time criticised Taj's harp playing as insipid but as a harp player myself I think he perfectly captures the mood of the laid-back song.)
Side two begins with the highly infectious calypso "Wah she go do", an early example of Bonnie's continuing love for Caribbean music. Next comes two songs from contemporary singer-songwriters, Chris Smither's "I feel the same" and Jackson Browne's "I thought I was a child", again Bonnie turns in great, sensitive versions of these folky ballads. Harking back to the start of her career, we then get a medley of two Fred McDowell country blues, with Bonnie playing acoustic slide guitar, as featured in her live act for many years. Finally we have the definitive version of Randy Newman's marvellous song "Guilty", with Bonnie ringing every ounce of feeling and meaning out of this beautiful, plaintive song. (She unexpectedly played this song at a recent live show and it really brought a lump to my throat, gulp!)
For me this record remains Bonnie's greatest work, with the perfect mixture of songs by great writers, different styles (blues, folk, jazz, soul etc) and great playing. At the time I loved its variety and Bonnie's complete mastery of all the different genres. Today, 35 years later, it still sounds great, George Bohannon and Kirby Johnson's brass arrangements are wonderful and the choice of Calypso Rose's "Wah she go do" anticipated pop's adoption of `world music' by some years. In many ways Bonnie has progressed a great deal since this record but I admire the way she has stayed true to her musical and political roots. A great record from a great artist.
We set off with a bang with the funky "You've been in love too long" (great drumming), then slow down for the moody, acoustic "I gave my love a candle" before returning to the up-tempo jazzy groove of "Let me in". Bonnie completely nails the mellow, hipster-jive of Mose Allison's "Everybody's crying mercy", which features some nice Lowell George slide guitar. Then we have the beautiful Eric Kaz ballad "Cry like a rainstorm", with lovely restrained vocals from Bonnie and great harp from Taj Mahal. (I remember a review in Rolling Stone at the time criticised Taj's harp playing as insipid but as a harp player myself I think he perfectly captures the mood of the laid-back song.)
Side two begins with the highly infectious calypso "Wah she go do", an early example of Bonnie's continuing love for Caribbean music. Next comes two songs from contemporary singer-songwriters, Chris Smither's "I feel the same" and Jackson Browne's "I thought I was a child", again Bonnie turns in great, sensitive versions of these folky ballads. Harking back to the start of her career, we then get a medley of two Fred McDowell country blues, with Bonnie playing acoustic slide guitar, as featured in her live act for many years. Finally we have the definitive version of Randy Newman's marvellous song "Guilty", with Bonnie ringing every ounce of feeling and meaning out of this beautiful, plaintive song. (She unexpectedly played this song at a recent live show and it really brought a lump to my throat, gulp!)
For me this record remains Bonnie's greatest work, with the perfect mixture of songs by great writers, different styles (blues, folk, jazz, soul etc) and great playing. At the time I loved its variety and Bonnie's complete mastery of all the different genres. Today, 35 years later, it still sounds great, George Bohannon and Kirby Johnson's brass arrangements are wonderful and the choice of Calypso Rose's "Wah she go do" anticipated pop's adoption of `world music' by some years. In many ways Bonnie has progressed a great deal since this record but I admire the way she has stayed true to her musical and political roots. A great record from a great artist.
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Considering this joyous early album by the impeccable Bonnie Raitt is called Takin My Time, which was the title of a Little Feat song, who appear to great effect on the record, it`s a surprise that the song isn`t included. I can just imagine her singing it too, a gentle ballad with which she would have charmed any number of birds down from innumerable trees. Perhaps it was a take they left off...?
This is a lovely one. Varied, mostly exuberant in mood, beautifully programmed, and showing the perfect taste in songs we`ve come to expect from this wonderful singer.
None of Bonnie`s own this time, but it doesn`t matter because here is the gorgeous Cry Like A Rainstorm by Eric Kaz, Chris Smither`s superb I Feel The Same, and a pensive reading of Randy Newman`s tongue-in-cheek ("...I`ll be guilty for the rest of my life") song of eternal mea culpa, Guilty.
Along the way is one of the most exultant three minutes of music I`ve ever heard. If the slinky, sexy calypso Wah She Go Do doesn`t make you want to get down to the beach and start dancing across the sand, nothing will. Bonnie has always been a raunchy lady, unafraid to sing the more voluptuous repertoire, and this will rock your socks and steam your glasses.
The rest of this very fine album, with its red-hot band - those Feats didn`t fail her, and nor did her other musicians - is as good as the tracks I`ve mentioned.
It`s great to hear members of one of my favourite ever bands playing alongside one of my very favourite singers. A marriage made in a hot `n sultry heaven.
A great album by a great singer.
This is a lovely one. Varied, mostly exuberant in mood, beautifully programmed, and showing the perfect taste in songs we`ve come to expect from this wonderful singer.
None of Bonnie`s own this time, but it doesn`t matter because here is the gorgeous Cry Like A Rainstorm by Eric Kaz, Chris Smither`s superb I Feel The Same, and a pensive reading of Randy Newman`s tongue-in-cheek ("...I`ll be guilty for the rest of my life") song of eternal mea culpa, Guilty.
Along the way is one of the most exultant three minutes of music I`ve ever heard. If the slinky, sexy calypso Wah She Go Do doesn`t make you want to get down to the beach and start dancing across the sand, nothing will. Bonnie has always been a raunchy lady, unafraid to sing the more voluptuous repertoire, and this will rock your socks and steam your glasses.
The rest of this very fine album, with its red-hot band - those Feats didn`t fail her, and nor did her other musicians - is as good as the tracks I`ve mentioned.
It`s great to hear members of one of my favourite ever bands playing alongside one of my very favourite singers. A marriage made in a hot `n sultry heaven.
A great album by a great singer.
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