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Bonnie Raitt - Green Light Audio CD

A fair review of the Bonnie Raitt "Green Light" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Bonnie Raitt reviews here, or go back to the Bonnie Raitt tabs.

Bonnie Raitt Band: Bonnie Raitt
Title: Green Light
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Release Date: 1990-02-02
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Keep This Heart in Mind 2: River of Tears 3: Can't Get Enough 4: Willya Wontcha 5: Let's Keep It Between Us 6: Me and the Boys 7: I Can't Help Myself 8: Baby Come Back 9: Talk to Me 10: Green Lights

did the other reviewers actually listen to this album??
After reading the Amazon reviews, I bought it. I've been loving and listening to Bonnie Raitt since 1973, so was curious about this album of hers that I had never heard. If I bought it completely blind, I'd have nothing to quibble about. After savoring almost all of Bonnie's other albums, this one was painful to listen to. Yes, it's her great voice. That's the only redeeming value to this tasteless disc. Many reviewers remark that it is upbeat, but so was Ronald Reagan.


if you like bonnie raitt
i was looking for it for along time. i had this album years ago. found it on amazon. fantastic album as its bonnie raitts early years.


Yellow Light
The funny thing to me is that she would see this as going back to her roots. Raitt claims this album was an attempt to get back to her roots, and was surprised when critics labeled it as an attempt to go New Wave. This album sounds NOTHING like any of her early work, and songs like "Me and the Boys" could have been included on the soundtrack to "Fast Times at Ridgemont High. "

This is a rocking album, but it also has a cold, metallic feel that is as far away from albums like her eponymous debut and 1972's "Give it Up" as she can get. (Actually, the furthest she ever got was her next album, 1986's "Nine Lives" but that's for another review. )

"Green Light" is far from Raitt's best. It's a bridge between her 70s work and her late 80s revival, but isn't her most memorable. .


Early Raitt
You can hear where she's heading, but I listened to this CD once or twice and then retired it. Clearly this is an early effort by Bonnie Raitt.


License and registration, Ma'am...
Some hard-core fans saw 'Home Plate' and 'Green Light' as too commercial. Pedal down and drivin' hard, Bonnie knows how to rock and roll, too. (These are the same people who booed Dylan's electric guitar. . . ) Throughout her career, she's done what she wants and if that honesty coincided with some more accessible music, I sure don't begrudge her. I think Sippie Wallace would approve. . . .


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