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Bonnie Raitt – Green LIght (1982)

Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. In 1971, Raitt released her self-titled debut album. Following this, she released a series of critically acclaimed roots-influenced albums that incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk, and country. She was also a frequent session player and collaborator with other artists, including Warren Zevon, Little Feat, Jackson Browne, the Pointer Sisters, John Prine, and Leon Russell.

In 1989, after several years of limited commercial success, she had a major hit with her tenth studio album, Nick of Time, which included the song of the same name.

The album reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart, and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. It has since been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry. Her following two albums, Luck of the Draw (1991) and Longing in Their Hearts (1994), were multimillion sellers, generating several hit singles, including “Something to Talk About”, “Love Sneakin’ Up On You”, and the ballad “I Can’t Make You Love Me” (with Bruce Hornsby on piano). Her 2022 single “Just Like That” won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.

As of 2023, Raitt has received 13 competitive Grammy Awards, from 30 nominations, as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She ranked No. 50 on Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time” and ranked No. 89 on the magazine’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” Australian country music artist Graeme Connors has said “Bonnie Raitt does something with a lyric no one else can do; she bends it and twists it right into your heart.”

In 2000, Raitt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She has received the Icon Award from the Billboard Women in Music Awards and the MusiCares Person of the Year Award from The Recording Academy. (wikipedia)

Green Light is the eighth album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 1982.

“What I wanted this time out was a combination of the music I’ve been listening to recently,” Raitt said in 1982, “Billy Burnette, the Blasters, Rockpile, and the rock-a-billy New Wave scene. I knew I had to get away from the slick sound I had with the Peter Asher record…I was a little stung by the lack of response to The Glow. And I was disappointed by not being able to make a record that sounded the way I wanted it to sound. Moving to Shangri-la, I wanted to get back to the roots and to the funkiness I had on earlier records, even though I’m not crazy about how they sound. They sound like I was having a lot more fun than I really was. Green Light is the first album I actually had fun doing.”

Green Light earned Raitt her strongest reviews in years, with critic Robert Christgau writing that “on The Glow the present-day female interpreter refused to die, and now she does even better by the suspect notion of good ol’ you-know-what. The strength of [Green Light] runs too deep to rise up and grab you all at once, so you might begin with “Me and the Boys”, arch as usual from NRBQ but formally advanced pull-out-the-stops (with all postfeminist peculiarities accounted for) when Bonnie and the boys get down on it.”

According to Raitt, the album’s hard-rock approach came as a surprise to some of her peers. “Well, a lot of my friends thought I had moved to the beach and turned into Gidget. But it’s not like I suddenly became an airhead. I needed to lighten up a bit, that’s all. I was laughing all the time, having a lot of fun, hanging out at this funky old studio that had hippie blankets hanging from the ceiling. Now I’m getting some feedback from people who feel the same way that I do about rock and roll. Then there are other, more conservative friends whom I’ve known for years who still wish I was sitting in a chair playing acoustic guitar.” (wikipedia)

Since 1975’s Homeplate, Bonnie Raitt has veered closer to the mainstream than she has to the organic, sexy funk of her early-’70s records. This bothered many listeners, who chose to concentrate on the surface instead of the substance, but Raitt retained many of the same special qualities she demonstrated on those records into the ’80s — namely, her excellent taste in material, fondness for blurring folk, blues, country, and rock, and her wonderfully subtle, always engaging, interpretations. Green Lights may suffer a bit from a production that clearly pegs it as a 1982 release, but strip away its production and it’s yet another satisfying collection of roots-rockers and bluesy ballads from the always reliable Raitt.

Producer Rob Fraboni’s recording may be a little bit too mainstream, lacking the new wave spark of, say, Dave Edmunds’ similar-sounding recordings of this era, but Raitt nevertheless rises above the limitations of the recording and delivers a tight, enjoyable collection of amiable mainstream rockers with just a hint of roots. This isn’t nearly as sexy as even Sweet Forgiveness, and it doesn’t have much grit, but it has spirit and is fun, and it’s a nice, smooth ride for those that like the direction Raitt’s going. (by Stephen Thomas Erlewine)

Personnel:
Ricky Fataar (drums, percussion, backing vocals on 01.)
Ian “Mac” McLagan (keyboards)
Ray Ohara (bass)
Bonnie Raitt (vocals, guitar, slide guitar)
Johnny Lee Schell (guitar, organ, autoharp on 08., percussion on 09., background vocals on 01., 06., 07. + 08.)
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Jackson Browne (background vocals on 01.)
Rob Fraboni (percussion on 03.)
Vince Gill (background vocals on 07.)
Mac James (guitar on 08.)
Richard Manuel (harmony vocals on 02.)
Steve Raitt (background vocals on 08.)
Melanie Rosales (background vocals on 01.)
William D. “Smitty” Smith (organ on 05.)
Rick Vito (guitar on 01., 08. – 10.)
David Woodford (saxophone on 01., 03. + 09.)

Tracklist:
01. Keep This Heart In Mind (Marrone/Holsapple) 3.20
02. River Of Tears (Kaz) 4.54
03. Can’t Get Enough (Raitt/Richmond) 2.52
04. Willya Wontcha (Schell) 3.22
05. Let’s Keep It Between Us (Dylan) 4.43
06. Me And The Boys (Adams) 3.39
07. I Can’t Help Myself (Raitt/Schell/Fataar/Ohara) 3.06
08. Baby Come Back (Grant) 2.48
09. Talk To Me (Williams) 3.22
10. Green Lights (Adams, Joey Spampinato) 3.11

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