The Cavalier daily :: Thursday, May 17, 1973 :: University of Virginia Library

It only took one listening
for me to fall in love with this
lady and her music. If you
want to hear sweet, sweet
blues, then no doubt Bonnie
Raitt is your lady too.

She hails from Chicago, the
windy city of the blues and it
is quite evident from both her
history and her music that she
has sufficiently paid her dues.
She has played with many of
the great Chicago blues men
and her first album, Bonnie
Raitt, features the likes of
Junior Wells (harmonica) and
A.C. Reed (saxophone),
brother of the famous Jimmy
Reed. Recently, in an
appearance in Washington,
D.C., she introduced Arthur
"Big Daddy" Crudup as an old
friend.

Whereas on her first album,
Bonnie's virtuoso slide guitar
work and vocals betrayed her
Chicago blues roots, on Give It
Up, her second album, she is
among new friends who flavor
her blues with strong touches
of good time dixieland jazz.
The result is an album of
incredible down home, good
time music.

Miss Raitt's friends on Give
It Up include members of The
Fabulous Rhinestones (Harvey
Brooks' new band), pianist
Mark Jordan (from Dave
Mason's band), Paul
Butterfield's new group and a
host of other fine musicians
from the Woodstock, N.Y.
area.

On the title cut Miss Raitt
picks up where she left off on
her first album with some
mighty tasteful slide guitar
work. Midway through the
song John Payne comes in with
his sassy soprano saxophone
while Lou Terriciano's piano
keeps it all going in grand New
Orleans style.

Side one continues with
such thoroughly enjoyable
tunes as the pitifully pleading
"If You've Got To Make a
Fool Out of Somebody" and
the mean, cocky blues stomp
"Love Me Like a Man."

Side two opens with my
personal favorite, a beautiful
rendition of Joel Zoss' "Stayed
Too Long At the Fair." This is
one of those beautifully rare
songs that can make you sit
down and cry on a lonely
night. It was followed by a
Paul Butterfield-driven version
of Jackson Browne's "Under
the Falling Sky." Butter's harp
playing is impeccable as
always, beautifully
complementing Miss Raitt's
singing.

The final cut appropriately
features only Miss Raitt and
long-time friend and bass
player Freebo (formerly of The
Edison Electric Band). The
song is entitled "Love Has No
Pride" and was penned by Eric
Kaz, song writer for Tracy
Nelson and Mother Earth.

Here we find this lovely
lady, who has stolen our hearts
away by singing out her own,
begging on her knees for us to
come back. This is surely one
album you will come back to
once you have heard it.