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Takin' My Time

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Released
  
October 1973

Takin' My Time (1973)
  
Streetlights (1974)

Release date
  
October 1973

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

Length
  
37:37

Artist
  
Bonnie Raitt

Producer
  
John Hall

Genre
  
Rock music

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Recorded
  
Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood, Village Recorders, Los Angeles

Similar
  
Bonnie Raitt albums, Rock music albums

You ve been in love too long bonnie raitt


Takin' My Time is the third album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 1973. Widely considered one of her strongest works, it was praised by critic Robert Christgau for "conveying songs from Calypso Rose and Martha Reeves Vandella into the women's music of the '70s."

Contents

In an interview given in 1982, Raitt would reveal that "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."

The cover photo was taken in Union Station in Los Angeles.

Bonnie raitt takin my time


Track listing

Side One

  1. "You've Been in Love Too Long" (Ivy Hunter, Clarence Paul, William Stevenson) – 3:43
  2. "I Gave My Love a Candle" (Joel Zoss) – 4:20
  3. "Let Me In" (Yvonne Baker, Alphonso Howell, George Minor) – 3:38
  4. "Everybody's Cryin' Mercy" (Mose Allison) – 3:29
  5. "Cry Like a Rainstorm" (Eric Kaz) – 3:55

Side Two

  1. "Wah She Go Do" (Lewis) – 3:12
  2. "I Feel the Same" (Chris Smither) – 4:40
  3. "I Thought I Was a Child" (Jackson Browne) – 3:49
  4. "Write Me a Few of Your Lines/Kokomo Blues" (Mississippi Fred McDowell) – 3:36
  5. "Guilty" (Randy Newman) – 2:58

Personnel

  • Bonnie Raitt - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals, background vocals, handclapping, bottleneck guitar
  • Charts

    Album - Billboard (North America)

    Songs

    1You've Been in Love Too Long3:44
    2I Gave My Love a Candle4:23
    3Let Me In3:40

    References

    Takin' My Time Wikipedia