This CD cover image released by Redwing Records shows “Dig In Deep,” a new release by Bonnie Raitt. Redwing Records via AP
This CD cover image released by Redwing Records shows “Dig In Deep,” a new release by Bonnie Raitt. Redwing Records via AP
This CD cover image released by Redwing Records shows “Dig In Deep,” a new release by Bonnie Raitt. Redwing Records via AP
This CD cover image released by Redwing Records shows “Dig In Deep,” a new release by Bonnie Raitt. Redwing Records via AP

Album Review: Bonnie Raitt’s Dig In Deep a mix of covers and originals

Four years after her -Grammy-winning Slipstream, Bonnie Raitt returns with her 17th album, a collection of original songs and covers.

AP

February 29, 2016

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Dig In Deep

Bonnie Raitt

(Redwing Records)

Three stars

Four years after her ­Grammy-winning Slipstream, Bonnie Raitt returns with her 17th album, a collection of original songs and covers.

The 66-year-old had a hand in composing five of the 12 tracks and they are some of the best on the album, book-ended by funky opener Unintended Consequence of Love and the piano-driven closing ballad The Ones We Couldn't Be. She takes Need You Tonight by INXS into a bluesy zone crisscrossed by George Marinelli's Keith Richards-like weaving guitar.

Shakin' Shakin' Shakes is closer to the Los Lobos ­original, albeit with her ­perfectly fine slide. Raitt's 1991 hit, I Can't Make You Love Me, remains a career peak, and Dig In Deep includes several similar ballads, painful confessions of what could or should have been.

Paired with The Ones We Couldn't Be, Raitt rescues You've Changed My Mind from the Slipstream sessions, ­produced by its writer Joe Henry, and brews a tender nightcap of emotions and melodies. Add in the rockers, shakers and blues and Dig In Deep offers abundant rewards.

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