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Artist | Bonnie Raitt
Title | Dig In Deep
Genre | Folk/Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 52:24
Label | Redwing Records Store | 2016
Catalog | RWR032 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 246 kbps Size | 98.03 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Unintended Consequence Of Love 4:49
02. Need You Tonight 3:19
03. I Knew 4:00
04. All Alone With Something To Say 3:11
05. What You're Doin' To Me 4:53
06. Shakin' Shakin' Shakes 4:50
07. Undone 4:12
08. If You Need Somebody 5:10
09. Gypsy In Me 4:09
10. The Comin' Round Is Going Through 5:29
11. You've Changed My Mind 4:08
12. The Ones We Couldn't Be 4:14
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Long a critics' darling, singer/guitarist Bonnie Raitt did not begin to win
the comparable commercial success due her until the release of the aptly
titled 1989 blockbuster "Nick Of Time"; her tenth album, it rocketed her
into the mainstream consciousness nearly two decades after she first
committed her unique blend of blues, rock, and R&B to vinyl. Born in
Burbank, California, on November 8, 1949, she was the daughter of Broadway
star John Raitt, best known for his starring performances in such smashes
as Carousel and The Pajama Game.
Listening through "Dig In Deep", Raitt's 20th album, the entire arc of her
career becomes clear. In the early 70s she insisted on recording live in
the studio with her road band. Later, various producers - from Jerry
Ragovoy to Peter Asher, from Don Was to T-Bone Burnett - assisted in
shaping her sound, often with great commercial success: she's sold nearly
20 million records. She's learned from them all. There have been downs, but
each was balanced by a rise. In 2012 she ended a seven-year silence with
the poignant, powerful "Slipstream", co-produced with Joe Henry and
released on Redwing, her own label.
"Dig In Deep" was produced by Raitt, with the exception of "You've Changed
My Mind", written by Henry specifically for her, and recorded in 2010. She
wrote or co-wrote five of its 12 songs. The members of her fantastic road
band are again her musical partners. Raitt's signature slide guitar is back
out front; it shines throughout the recording. Her earthy singing voice,
with just a hint of time's grain, is more disciplined and holds more
emotional authority than ever before. It soars through a song collection
balanced between rough, rowdy rockers and searing ballads. All of the
material, regardless of tempo, underscores her title.
The themes in these songs - loss, betrayal, desire, regret, atonement,
loneliness, resolution - are all resonant. Opener "Unintended Consequence
Of Love" is a funky NOLA-flavored R&B groover complete with great breaks
from drummer Ricky Fataar. The reading of INXS' "Need You Tonight" is more
unruly than the original - and way sexier. Raitt's distorted slide break is
nasty, delicious in its aggression. The cover of Los Lobos' "Shakin'
Shakin' Shakes" is a roadhouse boogie with teeth as Raitt's slide and
George Marinelli's counter leads snake around one another. "I Knew," with
its irresistible hook, wise lyrics, and beguiling melody, would have been
at home on "Nick Of Time".
Her "What You're Doin' to Me" juxtaposes gospel and blues via Mike
Finnigan's Hammond B-3 and Raitt's pumping piano; the lyric is a
celebration of unfettered desire. It's hard to believe the swaggering
blues-rocker "Gypsy in Me" wasn't written by Raitt - but one of her many
gifts has been interpreting songs in such a way that they become
inseparable from her persona. Her own choogling "The Comin' Round Is Going
Through" is a scorching political rocker that takes on the one percent and
foretells coming karmic consequences.
It can communicate on a roadhouse dancefloor as well as in a concert hall.
Two ballads, Henry's "You've Changed My Mind" and her own "The Ones We
Couldn't Be," portray different kinds of vulnerability to what life
extracts as it is being lived. Raitt's voice in both songs - and indeed
throughout "Dig In Deep" - expresses unwavering honesty and unqualified
acceptance. The aforementioned arc has come full circle: Raitt is now in
full control of her career, delivering consistently great music as a
result.
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