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Track Listings
1 | Something to Talk About |
2 | Good Man Good Woman |
3 | I Can't Make You Love Me |
4 | Tangled and Dark |
5 | Come to Me |
6 | No Business |
7 | One Part Be My Lover |
8 | Not the Only One |
9 | Papa Come Quick (Jody and Chico) |
10 | Slow Ride |
11 | Luck of the Draw |
12 | All at Once |
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Product description
Luck of the Draw is the eleventh album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 1991. After being nominated for Grammy awards in four different categories for the album Nick of Time, Raitt went for a creative retreat in Northern California to begin work on Luck of the Draw. "I did it on purpose to see if I could come up with anything," Raitt said in 1991. "In case I won, I wanted to make sure that I had done some writing and didn't feel that Nick of Time was a fluke. I didn't want to win just 'cause I quit drinking and spent twenty years not making any money, you know? There wasn't enough. So I basically forced myself to go to songwriting boot camp. There were three of four days when it didn't happen — but because I didn't have alcohol or unhappiness or anything to get in the way, it started to open up and I started three of the four songs of mine that are on this album. And then it didn't matter if I won or not, because I had proved to myself that it was okay." The album surpassed Nick of Time's commercial success, having sold seven million copies in the United States alone by 2010, and was supported by a 180-date tour from 1991 to 1993. It replicated much of her U.S. success overseas as well, selling two million in France and Italy. It remains Raitt's biggest-selling recording to date. In the liner notes, Raitt dedicated this album to the late blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, "still burning bright".
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As its title makes clear, the 1991 sequel to Bonnie Raitt's platinum breakthrough on Nick Of Time takes nothing for granted. Raitt had achieved sobriety, renewed commercial focus, and then the payday that the prior album yielded, but Luck Of The Draw mirrors an even fiercer determination to make music as if her life depended on it. Again teamed with producer Don Was, Raitt surpasses herself with her best album to date: her wonderfully lush, blues-rimmed voice and sinuous slide guitar wrap themselves around a dozen potent songs culled from a typically shrewd mix of writers including Paul Brady, John Hiatt, Bonnie Hayes, Shirley Eikhard, and Billy Vera, and Raitt herself turns in her most generous batch of originals yet. Sympathetic guests include Brady and Delbert McClinton on harmony vocals, Richard Thompson on guitar, and Heartbreaker Benmont Tench on organ, in a program including the sassy "Something to Talk About," the sultry "Slow Ride," a soaring "Not the Only One," and the heartbreaking "I Can't Make You Love Me." This isn't luck, it's artistry. --Sam Sutherland
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 4.88 x 5.59 x 0.47 inches; 3.53 ounces
- Manufacturer : Capitol
- Item model number : 2018338
- Original Release Date : 1991
- Date First Available : January 6, 2007
- Label : Capitol
- ASIN : B000002UXM
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #13,401 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #92 in Rock Singer-Songwriters
- #97 in Contemporary Blues (CDs & Vinyl)
- #285 in Country Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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If you collect great music like I do, then add this album to your music collection because it is well worth keeping.
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Since her commercial `breakthrough` (cue hollow laughter: as if she needed a breakthrough!) the superb Nick Of Time, Bonnie has sold more albums but has never noticeably tempered her feisty, raunchy, blues-haunted talents.
This was the follow-up, and much must have been riding on it. It`s a wonderfully varied set - mind you, all her albums are varied, a mix of the slow, sad & sultry - with a lovely easy, unhurried feel to it. Take track 6, No Business, by John Hiatt, a songwriter Raitt revisits when she can, no doubt since there have been few better songwriters at work in the States these last 30 years or so. It`s a mid-tempo rocker and features Bonnie on slide guitar (she`s the world`s finest female blues guitarist, no contest) and Hiatt himself on `all other guitars`. I could listen to it all night.
It`s followed by by a song co-written by Bonnie and Michael O`Keefe (they also wrote Longing In Their Hearts, the excellent title track of a later album) called One Part Be My Lover, a slowish ballad of the kind Bonnie sings like no other.
The album opens with Shirley Eikhard`s forceful Something To Talk About, and not a single track lowers the temperature of this exemplary set, not even a slightly poppy reading of Paul Brady`s Not The Only One. As I`ve said elsewhere, the constant element in Bonnie`s albums is That Voice. There`s none better! She could sing almost any song and it would be fine with me.
We are thankfully never too far from the blues, Bonnie`s roots after all, and Papa Come Quick is a deft, cajun-inflected blues-tinged number which harks back to the glory days of her early records, in particular her `ad hoc` debut. The slinky Slow Ride is another bluesy workout, enhanced by both Bonnie`s guitar and that of guest guitarist Robben Ford.
Paul Brady`s title track is terrific. She sure knows a good song when she hears one. Backing vocals are courtesy of Brady and Richard Thompson. Now, that`s luxury casting.
The closing track All At Once is one of Bonnie`s best compositions, and ends this glorious collection of songs in luxurious fashion.
My other favourite living female singers are Maria Muldaur and the very different Natalie Merchant, Iris De Ment & Eliza Carthy - and the great Etta James until her recent death. Ms Raitt can hold her head high in such exalted company.
"Turn down the lights, turn down the bed..."
If only.