Green Light

Green Light Artist: Bonnie Raitt
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 075992363020
EAN: 0075992363020
ASIN: B000002KN5


Release Date: 1990-02-02

Green Light


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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

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  1. The Glow
  2. Home Plate
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  4. Streetlights
  5. Takin' My Time

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The late '70s found Bonnie Raitt casting about for a new musical direction. Ironically, she found it on 1982's Green Light by going back to the basics. The album finds her using her road musicians, the Bump Band (including former Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan) and handling most of the guitar chores herself, resulting in a confident, high-energy set. The hard-charging "Willy Wontcha" rocks with abandon, as do Raitt's covers of a pair of NRBQ tunes, "Me and the Boys" and "Green Lights." There's also a Bob Dylan track, "Let's Keep It Between Us" and a little easy-in-the-islands charm, courtesy of Eddy Grant's "Baby Come Back." --Daniel Durchholz

Album Description

Rhino/Warner Bros. digital remaster of 1982 release. Features 'River Of Tears', 'Me And The Boys' & 'Baby Come Back'.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars License and registration, Ma'am..........2006-10-12

Pedal down and drivin' hard, Bonnie knows how to rock and roll, too. Some hard-core fans saw 'Home Plate' and 'Green Light' as too commercial. (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...

5 out of 5 stars Awesome (but little known) Bonnie Raitt Album.......2006-04-02

This has always been one of my favourite Bonnie Raitt albums! I'm so glad it finally came out on CD. "Keep This Heart In Mind" is in my opinion one of her best songs.

5 out of 5 stars GO!.......2005-12-30

Bonnie Raitt is great and this is her best record. Get it and enjoy.

5 out of 5 stars Great Bonnie Raitt Album.......2005-10-05

GREEN LIGHT is a great Bonnie Raitt CD. The songs are all great, with a couple of exceptions. Among highlights are the Lowell George memorial "River Of Dreams"; the rockers "Willya Wontcha" and "I Can't Help Myself"; and the NRBQ cover "Me And The Boys." Raitt's belief that the youg Australian tourist jailed in Indonesia since 2005 for drug-smuggling was unjustly convicted makes GREEN LIGHT an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience.

5 out of 5 stars Bonnie rocks those blues away.......2004-03-08

This album is predominately an up-tempo rocking album - it never slows below mid-tempo - although Bonnie's roots in blues music are still in evidence. This was the first Bonnie Raitt album I ever bought and is still my favorite among those I've heard. Apparently, the musicians used on this album were the ones that backed her on tour at the time rather than studio musicians.

Bonnie found some great songs here by noted songwriters such as Eric Kaz (River of tears) and Bob Dylan (Let's keep it between us, one of his more obscure but still excellent songs). Two songs were written by Terry Adams of NRBQ - the title track and Me and the boys.

To my ears, the standout track is Baby come back, perhaps because I was already familiar with the song even before Bonnie started her long and distinguished career. Eddy Grant wrote this song in the sixties, when he was lead singer of the Equals. Their original version of the song went all the way to number one in the UK charts in 1968. Bonnie's cover is faithful to the original but equally brilliant.

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