The Bonnie Raitt Collection
| The Bonnie Raitt Collection | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Greatest hits album by | ||||
| Released | June 28, 1990 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 75:16 | |||
| Label | Warner Brothers | |||
| Bonnie Raitt chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A[2] |
| Select |   [3] |
The Bonnie Raitt Collection is the first compilation album by Bonnie Raitt. It includes songs from her first nine albums while with Warner Brothers, which were released from 1971 to 1986. Raitt would go on to have much greater success with her stint with Capitol Records.
Critical reception
William Ruhlmann of AllMusic concludes his review of The Bonnie Raitt Collection with, "Even taking into account differences in taste, Raitt's choices run in the face of the preferences of fans and critics to the point that the album fails to make the case for her Warners recordings as true expressions of her talents, a case that could have been made decisively with a better selection."[1]
Greg Sandow of Entertainment Weekly writes, "this compendium justifies itself by its quality. It reveals Raitt first as a 21-year-old blues singer, performing songs with titles like "Finest Lovin' Man" in an aching, pure voice. But already she was adding depth and, often, sadness to what she sang." He gives the album an "A" rating.[2]
Mark Cooper of Q Magazine writes, "This personally selected compilation is a testament to Raitt's ability to make songs her own and further evidence that she isn't always the best judge of her own material."[4]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Finest Lovin' Man" | Bonnie Raitt | Bonnie Raitt (1971) | 3:57 |
| 2. | "Give It Up or Let Me Go" | Raitt | Give It Up (1972) | 4:28 |
| 3. | "Women Be Wise" (live duet with Sippie Wallace at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, May 1976) | Wallace | Bonnie Raitt | 3:22 |
| 4. | "Under the Falling Sky" | Jackson Browne | Give It Up | 3:38 |
| 5. | "Love Me Like a Man" | Chris Smither | Give It Up | 3:10 |
| 6. | "Love Has No Pride" | Give It Up | 3:43 | |
| 7. | "I Feel the Same" | Chris Smither | Takin' My Time (1973) | 4:39 |
| 8. | "Guilty" | Randy Newman | Takin' My Time | 2:58 |
| 9. | "Angel from Montgomery" (edited live duet with John Prine at the Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, January 1985) | Prine | Streetlights (1974) | 3:59 |
| 10. | "What Is Success" | Allen Toussaint | Streetlights | 3:26 |
| 11. | "My First Night Alone Without You" | Kin Vassy | Home Plate (1975) | 3:01 |
| 12. | "Sugar Mama" | Glen Clark | Home Plate | 3:44 |
| 13. | "Louise" | Paul Siebel | Sweet Forgiveness (1977) | 2:43 |
| 14. | "About To Make Me Leave Home" | Earl Randall | Sweet Forgiveness | 4:11 |
| 15. | "Runaway" | Sweet Forgiveness | 3:53 | |
| 16. | "The Glow" | Veyler Hildebrand | The Glow (1979) | 4:08 |
| 17. | "(Goin') Wild for You Baby" | The Glow | 5:26 | |
| 18. | "Willya Wontcha" | Johnny Lee Schell | Green Light (1982) | 3:21 |
| 19. | "True Love Is Hard to Find" | Frederick Hibbert | Nine Lives (1986) | 3:37 |
| 20. | "No Way to Treat a Lady" | Nine Lives | 3:52 | |
| Total length: | 75:16 | |||
All track information and credits taken from the album's liner notes.[5]
References
- ^ a b Ruhlmann, William. The Bonnie Raitt Collection at AllMusic
- ^ a b Sandow, Greg (20 July 1990). "The Bonnie Raitt Collection". ew.com. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ Kirsh, Michele (September 1990). "The Raitt Stuff". Select. No. 3. p. 103.
- ^ Cooper, Mark (6 September 1990). "The Bonnie Raitt Collection". qthemusic.com. Q Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ Raitt, Bonnie. The Bonnie Raitt Collection. Warner Brothers. 1990.
