 Takin My Time (1973) [ larger cover art ] |
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Say goodbye,
'Well I know it's true.
I know you're leaving me but I,
'I'm leaving too.
You won't forget me,
'Or the sound of my name.
Please believe me,
'I feel the same.
It seems so empty now.
'Close the door.
Ain't it hard to believe that you ever,
' Lived this way before.
All that nothing,
' Causes all that pain.
Please believe me,
' I feel the same.
Well this broken soul,
'That I know a, a heart that's breakin'.
You can't make it whole
'Until you know what has been taken.
And all those pieces,
'Uh that you find them all your own.
I said goodbye.
'Now you know it's true.
You said you're leaving me, but honey I,
'I'm leaving too.
You won't forget me
'Or the sound of my name.
Please believe me,
'I feel the same.
Please believe me,
'I feel the same.
| bam23 (Berkeley) | Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 19:30 I really regret that my only Bonnie Raitt show was in Philadelphia, opening for Randy Newman, when she was too much enamored of alcohol to perform adequately. It was a strange show, possible characteristic of the times. She was too inebriated to do much more than strum chords (in fact it was not until years later that I realized she plays really fine guitar) and Newman kept up a heavy sniffling that suggested rather strongly that some alkaloid was far too chummy with his nasal passages. There was a time in the early 1970s when a lot of really talented musicians were too wrapped up in their, let's say chemical romances, to focus properly on why they were there. I suppose some of it was enjoyable, but in retrospect I also suspect that many would not repeat the process that way. That said, I remain really impressed with her commitment to the music. I can ignore the really popular hits that wore out their welcome and focus on what she does so well. |
| Tana (Lancaster, PA) | Posted: Feb 18, 2013 - 09:07 hippiechick wrote: I was never that much of a Bonnie fan, but my companion likes her and so I got her last album. Gotta say, I like it a lot. Glad you're appreciating her. Bonnie is a singular talent - both vocal and guitar. She's also a whole lotta fun in concert. |
| capandjudy (Huntington, WV) | Posted: Nov 16, 2012 - 07:58 nagsheadlocal wrote: That's Lowell George on the slide, Little Feat was practically her backing band through this period. When she plays slide I swear that she is channeling Lowell George anyway. This could have been BR on guitar and I wouldn't have known the difference. |
| hippiechick (topsy turvy land) | Posted: Nov 16, 2012 - 07:53 I was never that much of a Bonnie fan, but my companion likes her and so I got her last album. Gotta say, I like it a lot. |
| Papernapkin (Mountain View, CA) | Posted: Sep 14, 2012 - 10:15 Bonnie Raitt - Always Sounds the Same |
| Webfoot (Eugene, Oregon) | Posted: Jul 13, 2012 - 12:22 Nice cover art too! |
| subdude (New Zealand) | Posted: Aug 31, 2011 - 20:05 I wonder who is choosing the music today. Are you sad or depressed. Please keep it to yourself. |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Aug 04, 2011 - 20:59 Cesaria Evora - Crepuscular Solidão (feat. Bonnie Raitt) |
| Poacher (Brighton, UK) | Posted: May 29, 2011 - 08:59 What was I thinking. 8? Just an 8? 10. |
| prickelpit96 (Where the grass is green and the ball is round, meet me in the stand behind the goal.) | Posted: Apr 11, 2011 - 23:47 Uff! This is absolutely marvelous. Didn't know this song.... |
| pgbybay | Posted: Jan 23, 2011 - 11:59 Ahh, the best - we love Bonnie. |
| jerrieberrie (Omaha) | Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 12:26 I played the grooves off this record in college. My friends and I saw her in concert with Little Feat when this album had came out. I was young and it was ALL wonderful. Drove 3 hours home in the middle of the night after the show. How we made it I'll never know ! Saw her again this past year with the Bon-Taj Roulette. She's still Fantastic and getting to see Bonnie and Taj Mahal together was a dream come true. Sometimes, life is just good. |
| BikeCoachDave (Columbia, Ky.) | Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 12:22 How is it even possible that this song is closing in on 40 years old. It sounds so fresh and smooth. Love B. R. |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: May 14, 2010 - 11:22 paulmack wrote: I've always loved Bonnie's slide playing but this might be the best yet - somehow had never heard this one before. That's Lowell George on the slide, Little Feat was practically her backing band through this period. |
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: May 14, 2010 - 11:20 Not only does this sound new, the cover image (with a tweak of the type) could be a contemporary cd. |
| peter_james_bond (The Burg) | Posted: Apr 28, 2010 - 12:30 anotherlistener wrote: Bill, it's like being reintroduced to some old long lost friends. Nice set.  I feel the same. Well done Bill! |
| WayUpNorth (Windswept Exile) | Posted: Apr 28, 2010 - 12:28 Excellent set. Great mood. |
| anotherlistener (outside Bawlmer) | Posted: Apr 28, 2010 - 12:27 Bill, it's like being reintroduced to some old long lost friends. Nice set. |
| tryallmusic (sunny Seattle) | Posted: Apr 28, 2010 - 12:27 Good tune, brilliant seque from TP - Don't Fade On Me. |
| dc_zee | Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 16:32 Pyro wrote: So true...for 35 years! "Guilty" from this same album is just incredible. Randy Newman's version of Guilty is also effective — 'course he wrote it so one would hope.... |
| ddbz (The Midwest) | Posted: Mar 27, 2010 - 21:11 At times I complain, or maybe I am even a complainer? But that is some good Blues! |
| gatorade (Ocean Park, WA) | Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 12:54 One of my favorites from Bonnie. No one brings it like she does. |
| zipper | Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 10:43 paraclete wrote: Does this fine lady have even one bad song? Everything she touches is tasty, real, gritty, and lovely. All at the same time. nicely phrased. |
| azdcryan (Sunny Arizona) | Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 14:40 paraclete wrote: Does this fine lady have even one bad song? Everything she touches is tasty, real, gritty, and lovely. All at the same time. She is spectacular to be sure. This song is a restrained jammer, badass. |
| paraclete (Citrus Heights, CA) | Posted: Oct 05, 2009 - 18:48 Does this fine lady have even one bad song? Everything she touches is tasty, real, gritty, and lovely. All at the same time. |
| Gardenho (Paradise Island) | Posted: Sep 20, 2009 - 00:55 Wow, this is a very bizarre post....I hate to draw attention to it, considering it's odd nature, but what the ??? paulpaar wrote: 7.6 You foos! This is a 9.9. Are you not listening??!! wake up america you crash victims. . . cant stand the heat? get out of the kitchen you kwaay! (Thai again for "water buffalo" and the pretenders next middle of the Road is another 8 + wake up amurika on drugs !! damn you are so druged duh! oh well must have been the steak on sale or the masturbation of aloneness.... Love it smile to your heart.!! ! ! ! ! ! |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Sep 04, 2009 - 06:44 paulmack wrote: I've always loved Bonnie's slide playing but this might be the best yet - somehow had never heard this one before. You're right, stellar guitar work on this number. |
| paulmack (the hissing swamps) | Posted: Aug 19, 2009 - 13:17 I've always loved Bonnie's slide playing but this might be the best yet - somehow had never heard this one before. |
| alux (atop the pyramid) | Posted: Aug 03, 2009 - 18:01 Bonnie's best. |
| paulpaar | Posted: Jul 18, 2009 - 22:25 7.6 You foos! This is a 9.9. Are you not listening??!! wake up america you crash victims. . . cant stand the heat? get out of the kitchen you kwaay! (Thai again for "water buffalo" and the pretenders next middle of the Road is another 8 + wake up amurika on drugs !! damn you are so druged duh! oh well must have been the steak on sale or the masturbation of aloneness.... Love it smile to your heart.!! ! ! ! ! ! |
| Aud (lost in lakecity) | Posted: Jun 17, 2009 - 02:48 Pyro wrote: So true...for 35 years! "Guilty" from this same album is just incredible. Whole album is great! Played it a lot! |
| ceviche (Lima, Peru) | Posted: May 16, 2009 - 08:39 Had this one on vinyl, part of the regular home rotation in High School and College. |
| Papernapkin (Mountain View, CA) | Posted: May 16, 2009 - 08:37 More like 'I sound the same'. How is this different from every other Raitt song? Slow, plodding, boring. |
| bronorb (Wisconsin) | Posted: Apr 30, 2009 - 12:17 KitKat wrote: .... He reappeared a year later, a little sadder, but still receiving funding because, I guess, he was so darned brilliant. Therein lies the problem with the American University system. |
| whtahtefcuk (Flagstaff, AZ, USA) | Posted: Feb 26, 2009 - 10:47 I love good old Bonnie! She rocks! |
| nigelr (Coffs Harbour, Australia) | Posted: Oct 23, 2008 - 02:51 Simply top of the tree! |
| KitKat (Chicago & Kenosha) | Posted: Sep 05, 2008 - 15:57 Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie. I'll never forget the physics grad student at a my Big State University in the 1970s who received his fellowship money, dropped all of his classes, and went off to San Francisco in to do nothing but be near and hear Bonnie Raitt. I doubt she felt the same .... He reappeared a year later, a little sadder, but still receiving funding because, I guess, he was so darned brilliant. |
| Tree_Hugger (Seattle) | Posted: Sep 05, 2008 - 15:56 Dig it. Think this is my fave Bonnie tune of all time. Thanks RP and for the grapevine fires. |
| sharkartist | Posted: Jul 20, 2008 - 06:49 Got that get-down gritty mojo goin' kinda groove... Bonnie and Lowell workin' it out, gotta love it! |
| sharkartist | Posted: Jul 04, 2008 - 11:07 agnes wrote: That is some SERIOUS piano!!!!! Somebody's on point, fo real!!!! Another Little Feat member, Billy Payne, doing the honors. |
| kayaksurf4fun (Philippines) | Posted: Jun 02, 2008 - 22:38 she is a musical godness....no downside only straight 10's. |
| chix (Limburg, Germany) | Posted: Feb 29, 2008 - 12:21 8  |
| Pyro | Posted: Feb 29, 2008 - 12:19 sharkartist wrote: That'd be correct. Geez, does it get any better Bonnie and Lowell working it out on this haunting Chris Smither tune? Me thinks not.
So true...for 35 years! "Guilty" from this same album is just incredible. |
| mefrombrazil (ponta grossa, brazil) | Posted: Feb 29, 2008 - 12:19 put more rhythm in your songs, bonnie.you need SHOCK. |
| Leslie (Antioch, CA) | Posted: Dec 28, 2007 - 15:44 Relayer wrote: Wow, impressive stuff Bonnie. You cannot tell this song/album is from 1973. If you told me this was from a new album of hers, I would completely believe it. This shows that her style/songwriting/production is timeless. Actually, Chris Smither wrote this tune, but yes, this is probably her best album of all. This is definitely when Bonnie was at her soulful best. |
| Relayer (Gainesville, FL) | Posted: Dec 28, 2007 - 15:43 Wow, impressive stuff Bonnie. You cannot tell this song/album is from 1973. If you told me this was from a new album of hers, I would completely believe it. This shows that her style/songwriting/production is timeless. |
| dixiedeb (Augusta, GA) | Posted: Nov 27, 2007 - 06:16 I can never get enough of some good old Bonnie Raitt stuff. |
| crushedvelvet | Posted: Nov 11, 2007 - 13:39 I get a thrill every time I see her name come up on the playlist. 
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| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Oct 26, 2007 - 20:18 Hey Bill, Your a little chatty tonight..I even thought I heard you laugh..Keep it up. I know you don't wanna screw things up with talk, but we'd sure like to get to know the wonderful wi  zard behind all of these great tunes. |
| prickelpit96 (Hannover, Germany) | Posted: Oct 11, 2007 - 03:36 This awesome combination of piano and guitar in the middle of the song did it for me!   |