Bonnie Raitt's third album, Takin' My Time, is another critically acclaimed gem. Here she broadens her musical canvas to include calypso and dixieland while handing over all songwriting duties to others ( including Randy Newman , Chris Smither and Jackson Browne). Of the album, often recorded with members of Little Feat, Bonnie says:
"Takin' My Time is one of my favorite records to listen to, although I started out with Lowell George producing it, and he and I got too close to be able to have any objectivity about it. That's the problem when you're a woman and you get involved with the people you work with - and I just don't just mean romantically. It becomes too emotional. It's hard to have a strong woman telling the man her ideas when, in fact, the man wants to take over the situation. So that album had a lot of heartache in it. At the time it was a difficult one to make, but now I like it."
With leader Nils Lofgren off recording and touring with Neil Young, and the label running out of patience, this was the swansong for Grin. Fans would have to wait two years for Lofgren's spectacular solo debut
The "one man Beatles" never made any money from his terrific catalogue thanks to a messed up record deal with Dunhill. Farewell to Paradise is the third and final album before Rhodes would abandon his musical career facing tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
"That was it, I didn't want to do it anymore," he told LA City Beat. "I wanted to open a Laundromat and watch the dryers go around." 
The former McCoy and member of Edgar and Johnny Winter's bands, killer guitarist Rick Derringer released his debut album featuring his solo version of "Rock and Roll, Hootchie Koo"--a song already featured on three albums. Derringer's version hit highest, peaking at #23 in 1974. Edgar Winter, Joe Walsh and Suzi Quatro lend a hand on the album.
John Martyn follows up his classic 1973 album Solid Air with the even more experimental and jazzier Inside Out, recorded with Danny Thompson and Stevie Winwood on bass and keyboards respectively. Absolutely hypnotic.
s
0 comments:
Post a Comment