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Tarfumes.com - The Bonnie Raitt Collection
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List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $6.59
Your Save: $ 7.39 ( 53% )
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075992624220
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: 1990-06-28
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
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When Bonnie Raitt collected four Grammies for her 1989 multiplatinum breakthrough Nick of Time, it offered sweet justification for fans that had followed her through years of great recordings but plenty of hard luck in terms of commercial success. The Bonnie Raitt Collection shows why those fans were right all along. From the early blues-mama stylings of "Give It Up or Let Me Go" and "Love Me Like a Man" to the increased pop sophistication she brought to songs like her funky reworking of Del Shannon's "Runaway" and Bryan Adams's straight-ahead rocker "No Way to Treat a Lady," the set offers a worthwhile sampling of the decade and a half she spent recording for the Warner Bros. label. Of special note are a pair of live recordings; a previously unreleased version of "Women Be Wise," featuring one of Raitt's primary mentors, Sippie Wallace; and a duet with John Prine on "Angel from Montgomery" that first appeared on the Grammy-winning Tribute to Steve Goodman. If you only recently discovered Raitt, this collection will help you decide which of her earlier works to sample next. --Daniel Durchholz
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Summary: The Bonnie Raitt Collection
Comment: I like this collection of Bonnie's songs. She can hold her own against some of the best. Her blues oriented songs are so soulful and true to heart. She's an ideal songstress to listen to on a long road trip. Go Bonnie!!
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Summary: Love the old blues songs...
Comment: Bonnie, I love the old blues songs that you sing!!! There are a few of them on this album, very FUN.
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Summary: great
Comment: This cd showcases Bonnie Raitt's older songs and some of her most beloved popular radio songs. I bought it for the older blues like "Love Me Like a Man" and "Give it Up of Let Me Go". There are 20 songs on this cd and it's a great listen.
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Summary: Awesome!
Comment: There are few women in the blues genre that can break the male mold... I love her!
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Summary: First Raitt
Comment: The problem with "best of" collections is that fans will get into endless squabbles over what SHOULD have been included. Bonnie Raitt fans are no exception apparently. A cursory look at the fan reviews below attests as much. I understand how they feel, but folks, you know it's all good, and you gotta draw the line somewhere. After Raitt's extraordinary late 80s success on Capitol, a Warners retrospective was inevitable. They had lost a good thing in Bonnie and wised up just a little late. But graciously, Bonnie assisted in the selection of the songs and provided commentary. No hard feelings, boys.
A solid, consistent performer who has evolved but never felt compelled to constantly "reinvent" herself, Bonnie Raitt is not an easy artist to sum up, let alone encapsulate in a twenty song retrospective. But a twenty song sampler at least gives the new listener a broad enough overview. Die hard fans will buy it for the "live" versions of staples "Women Be Wise" (sung as a duet with originator Sippie Wallace) and "Angel From Montgomery" (here a duet with composer John Prine).
It's hard to imagine that a newcomer to Bonnie Raitt's oeuvre would want to stop here and not check out the individual releases (all available as of this writing). The earliest records with their rootsy feel have a special charm, as evidenced by the tracks included here: "Finest Lovin' Man" and "Give It Up." But even in those days, Bonnie was demonstrating her flair for contemporary material, as evidenced by her rocking take on Jackson Browne's "Under the Falling Sky." And although the Warners albums also included tracks penned by such staples of the So-Cal rock scene as Joni Mitchell and Stephen Stills, she also had a flair for finding material from less obvious sources. Paul Siebel's "Louise" isn't half bad--in fact, it's darn good. And she captures the essence of Chris Smither's "I Feel the Same" like no one else could (save the songwriter himself). Like her contemporaries, Tracy Nelson and Linda Ronstadt, she was discovering a virtual treasure trove in the works of Eric Kaz. Lots of folks find Bonnie's version of "Love Has No Pride" to be "definitive." I'm learning to throw that word out of my vocabulary, since my tastes can change from day to day. But of all the women--and men--who have assayed that song, Bonnie Raitt was able to bring something unique to it. Hers is a dignified reading, with more than a hint of vulnerability. Nelson's take on it, from the recently re-released eponymous Atlantic album, is also an interesting one, so strong and proud that it virtually belies the song's title. I can't decide which version I prefer, so instead I decided, hey, I don't have to.
Interesting that Bonnie Raitt emerged in '71, a year after Janis Joplin's tragic demise. Like Nelson, Raitt offered an alternate version of the white blues mama. Both brought a little more restraint and discipline to their art. Some found Raitt a little earnest in her politics and in her almost studious approach to the blues. But au contraire, mes amis, Bonnie had class and discipline--and she loved a good liberal cause as much as anyone else--but she was also as sassy and sly as you could want. And she sang like a husky voiced angel from Los Angeles. And played a mean slide guitar to boot.
Who could have asked for more? Eat your hearts out (17 years after the fact), Warners execs!
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