Bonnie Raitt would begin her career as a blues rock singer and guitarist in the early seventies with her debut album "Bonnie Raitt", which would go unnoticed as would also happen with her subsequent works until in 1977 she achieved moderate success with her album "Sweet Forgiveness ".
However, his following works followed the trend of his first albums and as a consequence his contract with Warner Bros was terminated due to poor sales in the early eighties.
The rest of the decade Raitt is dedicated to politics and goes through a painful period given over to drugs and alcohol.
Almost at the end of the decade he received an offer from Capitol Records and with this label he recorded his tenth album "Nick of time" (1989), with which he finally made it to the covers of music magazines and the charts almost 18 years after its debut.
Influenced by traditional blues, to which he adds a dose of country, to which he combines his good voice and great skill with the guitar and the slider guitar, he achieves an album overflowing with folk blues with warm ballads and cozy mid-tenses.
Actually, nothing changed here from what I had done previously, with the difference that the themes were more resounding and forceful.
A monumental album that would get three Grammy Awards and some six million copies sold.
From now on, Bonnie Raitt's career would emerge in a definitive way collaborating with the best musicians and getting two albums of great impact such as "Luck of The Draw" (1991) or "Longing in Their Hearts" (1994).
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