Nominated by: GeeKay
Music club: Wander to Wozza's
Playlist addition: Take My Love With You
I like Bonnie Raitt. Like. Not love.
She's a very good guitarist, a very good singer and she's very consistent, but there's been a certain something missing to lift her into the next level. Something she herself acknowledges with the title of the album.
She's not an innovator, she's more a follower and it's served her well. In a blind taste test you'd be struggling to place this album into a specific year - she's been churning out quality records like this for about 40 years. Right Down The Line might even have come from one of her seventies albums. Maybe it did? Has a seventies feel.
Americana though? Feels like the same old blues again (to quote JJ Cale). Not that there's anything wrong with that. This is a pleasant, easy going collection of songs.
Favourite tracks - Used To Rule The World is an excellent opener, Not Cause I Wanted To is a heartfelt ballad, and Split Decision has some grit and is catchy as all get out. I've highlighted Take My Love With You from Slipstream as it distills all her best features - great understated singing and laid back groove.
It all made for pleasant music to commute to this week, although there is nothing here to trouble Angel From Montgomery as my all time favourite Bonnie Raitt song.
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