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Bonnie Raitt - Silver Lining Audio CD

A fair review of the Bonnie Raitt "Silver Lining" 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: Silver Lining
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Release Date: 2002-04-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Fool's Game 2: I Can't Help You Now 3: Silver Lining 4: Time of Our Lives 5: Gnawin' On It 6: Monkey Business 7: Wherever You May Be 8: Valley of Pain 9: Hear Me Lord 10: No Getting Over You 11: Back Around 12: Wounded Heart

Eclectic Bonnie tones down the electric
The results are usually quite positive, although a couple of her choices have gone outside the realms I can appreciate. Silver Lining further demonstrates Bonnie Raitt's desire to branch out into as many genres of music in one album as humanly possible. You certainly can't fault her ambition. It seems she can use her past successes as a vehicle to now finally play exactly what she wants. This is not a criticism, as the strain can be heard in albums such as Nine Lives when she did not have full artistic control.

I still tend to prefer Bonnie when she plays it a bit more straitforward, rather than veering off track. More familiar trademark Raitt here includes the shimmering title track (written by David Gray), and "Valley of Pain," where her ever expressive slide guitar is back at the forefront. Elsewhere, there is everything from the low down n' muddy (with horns) "Gnawin' On It," to the funky "Monkey Business," and the vaguely raggae "Hear Me Lord," around to the sparce piano driven closer "Wounded Heart. "

Bonnie has no doubt earned all her stripes, and deserves to enjoy her sunset years with such artistic variance. Though I'm sure there are more than a few of us that miss the good times of "Thing Called Love" and "Something to Talk About. " At the end of the day, any slightly better than average BR album is equal to a great one by most everyone else. . . so it's all relative.


Not her best effort

It does have I Cant Help you Now. Silver lining in my mind is a very mediocre CD.
No Getting Over You is another very good song and the best on the album in my mind.
It is a very strong blues song. I like Bonnie best when she is playing the blues.
Wounded Heart ends the CD with a song played on piano.
This is not her best Cd, but not her worst either.


No Gettin' Over You . . .
. . kicks it! I can't believe nobody's mentioned 'No Gettin' Over You. ' This tune is all Bonnie - slide licks that swing and twang and sling, trying to recover from a bad relationship, but just not quite making it (but trying hard). This tune gives me goosebumps every time I hear it - no joking.
P. S. Delaney who?.


at least as good as anything she's ever done
I'm just thankful she's out there giving us mature, rocking music like this. Bonnie Raitt: any praise is unnecessary. She is one of a kind. The poignancy and vulnerability of the last track, "Wounded Heart" may move you to tears. She sings every song as if it were her favorite. She is the compleat musician.


Definitely Worth Having
Now I am. I was not a Bonnie Raitt fan when I bought this album on the recommendation of a friend. This woman is incredible. She sings like no one else I've ever known. Her enthusiasm and skill match that of any singer I've ever heard. I will gladly pay megabucks to go see this woman in concert the next time she comes to Dallas.

Do yourself a favor: buy this album.


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