New Bonnie Raitt album announced: Spring 2012!

Dodfather · #1 11-23-2011, 05:59 PM

Hi guys

Bonnie Raitt has announced a new album for Spring 2012. No title or firm release date as yet but... yes!! Awesome, huh? Her last album, Souls Alike, was in 2005. I'm hoping for some tour dates to accompany it, hopefully European. She usually does, I saw her on the Souls Alike tour and she was incredible!

Are there any other Bonnie fans here on The Ledge? If so then what are your favourite albums? I have pretty much all of them and my favourites would have to include Takin' My Time, Sweet Forgiveness, Streetlights, Luck Of The Draw, Longing In Their Hearts and Souls Alike.

All hail Bonnie!

p.s: For a Mac connection there's the unreleased version of No Way To Treat A Lady with Christine McVie on backing vocals. Sadly her vocals were taken off the released version that ended up on the troubled Nine Lives album.

**mylittledemon** · #2 11-23-2011, 06:38 PM

Excellent! I liked that record, and Silver Lining as well. Good to have her back!

markolas · #3 11-23-2011, 06:54 PM

That's great news! It's been so long since her last album that I kinda figured she was done recording - I think I heard her talk about how hard it was to find good songs in an interview from around that time.

Souls Alike was okay, but not great; I liked her previous 2 albums (Fundamental & Silver Lining) much better. I'd love to go see her when/if she comes to Austin.

markolas · #4 11-23-2011, 06:58 PM

There are only a few of her albums I haven't heard in their entirety:

- Streetlights
- Home Plate
- Nine Lives
- Longing in Their Hearts

Her first three albums are great; I did not care for Sweet Forgiveness at all, but I like The Glow and Green Light quite a bit. Nick of Time is another one of my favorites (and maybe her best), but Luck of the Draw is spotty as a whole, IMO.

**mylittledemon** · #5 11-23-2011, 07:00 PM

Thought this was interesting as I'd never seen it before...

Dodfather · #6 11-24-2011, 03:30 AM

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Thought this was interesting as I'd never seen it before...

Demon - thank you so much for finding this. Two of my absolutely favourite people together. I'm stealing this picture!

I can see why some people aren't keen on Sweet Forgiveness since it is less bluesy than her other records, although About To Make Me Leave Home is one of the swampiest tracks she's done, but I still like it - especially Two Lives (which was later covered beautifully by the Carpenters on their Voice Of The Heart album from 1983).

I actually think Nick Of Time - a very good album of course - is patchier than Luck Of The Draw.

markolas · #7 11-24-2011, 10:11 AM

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I actually think Nick Of Time - a very good album of course - is patchier than Luck Of The Draw.

I genuinely like every song on Nick of Time; I think there are about 5 songs that I like on Luck of the Draw.

Dodfather · #8 11-24-2011, 10:48 AM

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I genuinely like every song on Nick of Time; I think there are about 5 songs that I like on Luck of the Draw.

Different strokes... I guess.

I like most of Nick Of Time but there are about 3 I'm not keen on, whereas I love every track on Luck Of The Draw.

markolas · #9 11-26-2011, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Dodfather

p.s: For a Mac connection there's the unreleased version of No Way To Treat A Lady with Christine McVie on backing vocals. Sadly her vocals were taken off the released version that ended up on the troubled Nine Lives album.

I think CM appears on the album's closing song (an Eric Kaz song titled "Angel," no less). Too bad this album was BR's Street Angel.

Dodfather · #10 11-27-2011, 04:42 AM

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I think CM appears on the album's closing song (an Eric Kaz song titled "Angel," no less). Too bad this album was BR's Street Angel.

Nice comparison. Yes, Nine Lives is such a patcy album - likely because of the history of it. Recorded, then they dropped her, years later they were going to release it so she re-recorded some stuff... oh dear.

markolas · #11 11-27-2011, 10:16 AM

I've only heard No Way to Treat a Lady and True Love Is Hard to Find from that album, but I've heard clips from the others, and...egads! TLIHTF is a decent little reggae number, but the rest of the album is full of bland mid-'80s rock. I'd love to hear what the original Tongue & Groove album sounds like (the last 4 songs on Nine Lives are evidently from that project) - I'm not sure what possessed Bonnie to record those other songs, because they sound awful, from what I've heard.

I listened to her first three albums and Green Light the other day and had forgotten how good they all were. I especially enjoyed her first album; I don't remember liking it quite that much. I also listened to some clips from Streetlights and Home Plate on Amazon. Streetlights sounds like it might be interesting, although I can definitely tell that her sound was slickened up considerably. Home Plate sounds boring as hell, though. Those are her only two '70s albums that I haven't heard.

beccamorrisfift · #12 11-27-2011, 10:59 AM

I'm looking forward to this, I've only started listening to Bonnie in the past week so I don't have any favorite whole albums yet, but watch this space!

P.S Don't you think, in that gorgeous photo of the girls, Stevie really looks like IYD Stevie ? If that makes sense. I know they are obviously the same person

PolishStevieFan · #13 11-28-2011, 03:53 AM

Good news! I like Bonnie Raitt a lot. My favourite album is 1998's "Fundamental". Great album. I wonder if it's released in Poland...

Dodfather · #14 11-28-2011, 03:56 AM

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Good news! I like Bonnie Raitt a lot. My favourite album is 1998's "Fundamental". Great album. I wonder if it's released in Poland...

Fundamental is such an unusual Bonnie album - a deliberate choice on her part to work with different producers. I was looking forward to hearing it since it's produced by Mitchell Froom - Suzanne Vega's ex-husband and producer, and I'm a big fan of her work. I really like Fundamental, although I have to be in the right mood for it. Lovers Will is beautiful any time though.

markolas · #15 11-28-2011, 09:43 AM

I always liked Fundamental, but I've read some bad reviews - I guess some don't like the production. But it's something different, which is probably what she was going for, and I think it works for her. I didn't know Mitchell Froom was married to Suzanne Vega...I never could stand her, and I honestly can't imagine her being married to or in a relationship with anyone - everything about seems really stoic and frigid.