Uploaded by tblamblam on May 31, 2011
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."
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.
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Nice though I prefer her 72 live version. Grittier more buzzed version. LOL
roscoegino 2 weeks ago
@sueracer1951 no doubt Lowell's influence was large on Bonnie. She could've done alot worse. RIP Lowell..
1952FMS 2 months ago
Weird ... I bought this album when it was new. Killer (this and "Mercy" especially).
Released a year before Randy Newman's "Good Old Boys". I wonder why Bonnie doesn't seem to be credited anywhere for popularizing this. Love Cocker but this Bonnie version is still #1 in my book.
blackflute 2 months ago
what a bliss, tuchae gal
marinabennett 3 months ago
love it....takes me back 30 years!
slicksean 5 months ago
I graduated high school in 1973, drinking, smoking alot of dope, and listening to this....i have not had a drink since Jan.1982. Saw bonnie maybe 5 times since then. my favorite is "Shadow of Doubt", but this is close...thanks is not strong enough..
jimmydgladden 6 months ago
I love this song. Only got to hear her sing it live a few times since she felt she couldn't sing it after Lowell George died.
sueracer1951 8 months ago