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Bonnie Raitt: Dig in Deep

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Label: Redwing Records
Released: 2016.02.26
Time:
 52:24
Category: Pop/Rock, Blues
Producer(s): Bonnie Raitt, Joe Henry
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.bonnieraitt.com
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Purchase date: 2016
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Unintended Consequence of Love (Bonnie Raitt / Jon Cleary) - 4:49
[2] Need You Tonight (Andrew Farriss / Michael Hutchence) - 3:19
[3] I Knew (Pat McLaughlin) - 4:00
[4] All Alone With Something To Say (Gordon Kennedy / Steven Dale Jones) - 3:12
[5] What You're Doin' To Me (Bonnie Raitt) - 4:54
[6] Shakin' Shakin' Shakes (Cesar Rosas / T-Bone Burnett) - 4:50
[7] Undone (Bonnie Bishop) -4:13
[8] If You Need Somebody (Bonnie Raitt / George Marinelli) - 5:11
[9] Gypsy In Me (Gordon Kennedy / Wayne Kirkpatrick) - 4:09
[10] The Comin' Round Is Going Through (Bonnie Raitt / George Marinelli) - 5:29
[11] You've Changed My Mind (Joe Henry) - 4:09
[12] The Ones We Couldn't Be (Bonnie Raitt) - 4:14

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Bonnie Raitt - Lead Vocals, Electric Guitar, Piano on [12], Arrangement on [12], Producer

Mike Finnigan - Organ, Clavinet, Keyboards
George Marinelli - Electric Guitar, Background Vocals
Hutch Hutchinson - Bass
Ricky Fataar - Drums

Jon Cleary - Electric Piano  on [1], Backing Vocals on [1,5]
David Piltch - Acoustic Bass on [11]
Joe Henry - Acoustic Guitar on [11], Producer on [11]
Jay Bellerose - Drums on [11]
Bill Frisell - Electric Guitar on [11]
Greg Leisz - Electric Guitar on [11]
Patrick Warren - Keyboards  on [11,12], Arrangement on [12]

Arnold McCuller - Background Vocals on [4,8,9]
Maia Sharp - Background Vocals on [4,8]

Ryan Freeland - Recording Engineer, Mixing
Ricky Fataar - Engineer, Lacquer Cut
Kim Rosen - Mastering

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Listening through Dig in Deep, Bonnie 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.

Thom Jurek - All Music Guide


 
Pre-orders for the new album will begin on November 6th, while a world tour for 2016 is currently being booked. Dates will be announced soon, as pre-sale tickets go on sale November 10th, while general sale begins on November 13th.

Following a two-year trek in support of Slipstream, Raitt quickly returned to the studio with her touring band to record Dig In Deep. Raitt produced the album herself — save one song, pulled from her 2010 sessions with Slipstream co-producer Joe Henry — and wrote five new tracks, the most original material she's penned for a record since 1998's Fundamental.

"I was really inspired to come up with some songs that went with grooves that I missed playing in my live show, and to dig deeper into some topics I hadn't yet mined," Raitt said in a statement. "I don't write easily and can get distracted, but remembering how satisfying it was to come up with something new of my own, and writing with guys I love —like my longtime bandmates George Marinelli and Jon Cleary — I found that once the wheels started turning, the music came pouring out."

The turnaround between 2012's Slipstream and Dig In Deep is comparatively quick for Raitt, who previously hadn't released an album since 2005's Souls Alike. That time, however, was marked by personal tragedy, including the passing of Raitt's parents in quick succession, as well as the death of her brother from brain cancer in April 2009.

But Slipstream — which eventually won the Grammy for Best Americana Album — helped reinvigorate Raitt, who told Rolling Stone at the time, "The sessions were so inspiring that I fell back in love with music and got my appetite for it back again. It was healing."

Jon Blistein - October 21, 2015
RollingStone.com




A few years back, both Adele and Bon Iver invoked Bonnie Raitt's adult-pop sophistication with their wistful covers of Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin's "I Can't Make You Love Me," a ballad she'd made famous at her early-'90s commercial peak. It was a reminder of the influence that Raitt's full-grown insight has exerted on many serious songwriters and interpreters who've come along after her. Still, teasing out the emotional nuances in the stories she's chosen to tell is only one of the ways she's displayed depth over the course of her four-and-a-half-decade career.

What Raitt has done on her 20th album is go deep in the pocket, leaning on her gifts as a sensitive bandleader, bottleneck guitarist and producer, not to mention a paragon of modern blues expression. In interviews about Dig In Deep, she's spoken of shaping this dozen-song set not around concept so much as feel — of going after the grooves that she'd wanted to perform night after night. While there are some very fine ballads of regret in the mix — like the gracefully resigned, keyboard-padded "Undone" and "The Ones We Couldn't Be" — it turns out that she was really in the mood to plunge into meaty blues, R&B and rock 'n' roll with her longtime road band.

A couple of '80s rock tunes made the cut because Raitt heard in them the potential for sensual play. She and her bandmates amped up the already frenetic boogie of Los Lobos' "Shakin' Shakin' Shakes"; twice, she and her guitar foil George Marinelli swap unhinged solos, weaving her signature incandescent tone around his serrated attack. Covering INXS's "Need You Tonight" was an excuse to goose the song's angular dance-rock with a muscled-up rhythm section. And you can tell that Raitt relishes those fleeting moments when the entire band drops out, leaving her to vocalize with teasingly seductive intimacy. Her salty-sweet singing is a touch more hoarse than it once was, but she embraces the grit, making shrewd use of its lived-in physicality.

Several of the originals showcase the group's musical repartee: The strapping shuffle of "What You're Doin' To Me" and the chugging propulsion of "The Comin' Round Is Going Through" give her sauntering delivery something solid to push against, and the sleek syncopation of "If You Need Somebody" hugs her sly vocal phrasing. In "Unintended Consequence Of Love," drummer Ricky Fataar and bassist James "Hutch" Hutchinson embellish their robust groove with funky anticipation and frisky, swinging ghost notes while Raitt coaxes a lover into rekindling erotic desire. "Let's dig in deep and get out of this rut," she sings. "We'll get back to what brought us both together, baby, and find a way to resurrect our strut."

Raitt's approach to music-making set the tone for performances that have every bit as much to say about the importance of sharing in pleasure and being in sync as the lyrics do. Her responsiveness to her fellow musicians, and theirs to her, provides a lesson in how good it can feel to figure out how you fit together. For her, musical and emotional intelligence are inextricably intertwined.

Jewly Hight - February 17, 2016
© 2016 npr



“The kind of music I do is not for sissies,” quips Bonnie Raitt, the veteran multi-Grammy-winning singer, whose blues-rock slide guitar is as fiery as her red mane.

“I mean, I love singing heartbreak ballads, and really intelligent singer-songwriter songs,” continues Raitt, 66, whose 20th album Dig in Deep, out Feb. 26, contains a rich share of both.  “But when you do those R&B and rock ’n’ roll songs, that’s the reason I’m out here doing this.  That’s why I like to get up there.”

Raitt’s devotion to both blues-rock and the touring life is clear on “Gypsy In Me,” the singer’s first lyric video and a “Dig In Deep” track, which debuted exclusively on Billboard.com.

Life on the road is in Raitt’s blood. “I love it; my dad loved it,” she says of her father, the late Broadway star John Raitt.  “I watched him tour 25 consecutive years in summer stock and none of in our family could believe that he got paid for going up there and singing those songs every night. So early on, I got the bug.”

Raitt’s roots as a musician and social activist run deep, with some lasting—and lesser known—sources of inspiration. She was raised a Quaker.  And during her childhood, as her father played summer stock, Raitt attended a Quaker camp in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State.  Camp Regis-Applejack is still run by the Humes family on the shores of Lake Regis.

“I had eight summers there,” she recalls. “It changed my life.  It’s where I got a lot of my humanism, my appreciation for nature, my love of folk music and social justice.  The camp experience allows you to blossom out of your nuclear family role in a way that doesn’t happen anywhere else.”

Dig In Deep is on Raitt’s own Redwing label, as was her previous release Slipstream, which arrived in 2012 to critical acclaim, including a Grammy Award (her 10th) for best Americana album.

After the release of the new album, “we’re on the road for two years,” she says, “like five shows a week for maybe seven months of the year.” The tour will be Raitt’s first since signing with Creative Artists Agency.  “Jackson Browne was raving about them,” she says of her longtime friend and fellow CAA client. “They’re smart and savvy and big music fans, so I’m really happy about it.”

Raitt’s ace touring band plays on Dig In Deep. George Marinelli on electric guitar compliments the singer’s renowned fretwork.  After former keyboardist Jon Cleary opted to pursue his solo career, Raitt recruited Mike Finnigan “who I’ve known since he played with Maria Muldaur in `73,” she says. “He was with CSN [Crosby, Stills & Nash] for 17 years so I also knew him through them.” Onstage, Finnigan is Raitt’s vocal foil. Driving the band’s rhythm section are veteran drummer Ricky Fataar (Beach Boys, Crowded House) and bassist James “Hutch” Hutchinson, who has backed Raitt since 1983. “Those two guys are just monsters,” she says.

Backed by musicians with “an incredible vocabulary,” Raitt has a long history of unexpected interpretations of rock and roll classics.  “I think it started with [Del Shannon’s] `Runaway’ in 1977,” she says.  But perhaps even longtime fans will be surprised by her version, on Dig In Deep, of the 1988 INXS hit “Need You Tonight.”

“I know,” agrees Raitt, with a laugh. “I can’t wait for people to get wind of that.  You know I’m such a music fan. I play 'Magic Carpet Ride' and Jimi Hendrix songs and I love 'Highway To Hell' by AC/DC. There are a lot of unusual choices of things that I play in sound checks that I’ve secretly wanted to record.   From the first time I heard ['Need You Tonight'], I knew I could just kill it.” She catches herself. “That sounds egotistical. I knew I could wrap myself around it in a way that would be fresh. It’s a very sexy song.”

On a gentler note, Raitt also covers “Undone” by Bonnie Bishop, the Texas songwriter who wrote “Not Cause I Wanted To,” which Raitt interpreted on Slipstream. “I love her work,” says Raitt.  “Isn’t she incredible?”

Raitt’s rich interpretations aside, her own original songs are the soul of Dig In Deep.  The album contains five self-penned tracks, the largest number on one of the singer’s albums since “Fundamental” in 1998.

“I picked these songs specifically so I’d have these grooves to play live and these points of view,” says Raitt.

One point of view, conveyed powerfully by “The Comin’ Round Is Going Through” is “my frustration and anger about the hijacking of democracy by big money,” says Raitt. “To have an auction instead of an election is ridiculous,” she says. “Regardless of what your political affiliation is, everybody’s pissed off that the top one percent is getting too much of the pie, and how corrupt that is.  It’s not why people put their lives on the line for these hundreds of years, and sacrificed so much for what we have.”

But the album’s most heartfelt perspective comes on its final track, “The Ones We Couldn’t Be,” a reflection on loss, relationships and regret. 

Raitt lost her mother in 2004 and her father in 2005.  (She remembers the night in 1990 when her album Nick Of Time swept the Grammy Awards. Her father, sitting beside her in the audience “reached over and we hugged each other. I could feel him starting to sob and I just lost it.”)   Then, 2009 brought the death of her older brother, Stephen. 

Of “The Ones We Couldn’t Be,” she says: “I don’t think I could have written that song without having gone through what I went through, losing so many family members.  It’s been awhile.  But in time, you take a look at the relationships that either had some edges in them, or were painful.

“And with time and wisdom, you start being aware of your part in what made things happen the way they did in a relationship. That’s what this song is about.  I just came to this wrenching awareness that I couldn't have been a better this or that.”

She pauses, looking for the right words.  This is one of her first interviews about Dig In Deep and, she acknowledges, “I haven’t had to speak about this song yet.”

No matter. Raitt’s lyrics speak for themselves, with the ringing clarity of the heart.  As she has so often during her career, on Dig In Deep, Raitt conveys emotions felt deeply by many fans who have followed her for decades.

“With time,” she says, “you have a whole different perspective.”

Thom Duffy - 1/8/2016
billboard.com



"Dig In Deep" heißt das brandneue, mittlerweile zwanzigste Album der US-amerikanischen Singer/Songwriterin und 10-fachen Grammy-Preisträgerin Bonnie Raitt.

Über vier Jahrzehnte hinweg hat Bonnie Raitt mit ihrer charakteristischen Slide-Gitarre und einer Mischung aus Blues, Rock, Rhythm & Blues und Pop eindrucksvolle musikalische Spuren hinterlassen und Millionen von Alben verkauft. Im Jahr 2000 wurde sie in die Rock & Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen und das Rolling Stone-Magazin wählte sie in die Liste der Top-100 Gitarristen.

Nach einer zweijährigen Tourphase wollte Bonnie Raitt mit ihrer brillanten Band schnellstens ins Studio gehen um „Dig In Deep“ einzuspielen. Neben fünf eigenen Songs ragen "Shakin' Shakin' Shakes" von Los Lobos, der INXS-Hit "Need You Tonight" und die Single-Auskopplung „Gypsy In Me“ aus dem selbstproduzierten Album heraus.

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