Bonnie Raitt - Silver Lining 2002

Less successful and more, well, familiar are the songs cowritten with her bandmates. Instrumental highlights include Bonnie's slide duel with Roy Rogers on "Gnawin' It" and Andy Abad's highlife guitar chops on Oliver Mtukudzi's "Hear Me Lord." Jon Cleary's barrelhouse keys throughout owe a debt to Billy Payne of Little Feat. One may occasionally wish the producers had been allowed more rein to pepper the arrangements with their trademark quirky instrumentation, but the record rewards repeated listens.

Rob Stewart

1. Fool's Game (4:08)
2. I Can't Help You Now (3:13)
3. Silver Lining (6:19)
4. Time Of Our Lives (4:00)
5. Gnawin' On It (4:44)
6. Monkey Business (3:36)
7. Wherever You May Be (5:31)
8. Valley Of Pain (4:27)
9. Hear Me Lord (5:09)
10. No Gettin' Over You (4:45)
11. Back Around (5:15)
12. Wounded Heart (4:13)

onnie Raitt: vocals, electric and 'National' slide guitar, bg. vocal on Fool's Game, horn arr. on Gnawin' On It, organ arr. on Silver Lining

James "Hutch" Hutchinson: bass, acoustic on Back Around

Ricky Fataar: drums, percussion, bg. vocals on Hear Me Lord

George Marinelli: electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin on No Gettin' Over You, harmony vocal on Silver Lining, bg. vocal on Hear Me Lord

Jon Cleary: keyboards (piano, wurly, B3, clavinet, moog, synth), duet vocal on Monkey Business, bg. vocals on Fool's Game, Hear Me Lord, I Can't Help You Now

Additional musicians:
Mitchell Froom: moog synth and clavinet on I Can't Help You Now, organ and synth on Wherever You May Be, marxophone, reed organ and additional piano on Silver Lining, organ on Valley Of Pain, organ and wurlitzer on Time Of Our Lives, organ on Wounded Heart
Roy Rogers: the 'other' slide guitar (left speaker!) on Gnawin' On It
Steve Berlin: baritone sax on Gnawin' On It and Monkey Business
Habib Koite: gut string guitar on Back Around
Tommy Sims: 2nd electric guitar (right side!) on Time Of Our Lives
Gary Gold: additional sloppy snare and cross stick on Gnawin' On It, drum loops on I Can't Help You Now, Time Of Our Lives, Wherever You May Be, Silver Lining
Freebo: tuba on No Gettin' Over You
Benmont Tench: piano on Wounded Heart
Andy Abad: lead guitar on Hear Me Lord
Alex Acuña: congas, talking drum on Hear Me Lord
Pete Thomas: percussion on Valley Of Pain
Andy Scheps: additional drum loops on I Can't Help You Now
Members of Bamada (Habib Koite's Band) on Back Around:
Souleymane Ann: Calabash
Keletigui Diabate: Balafon
Nahamadou Kone': Talking Drum

Additional Background Vocals:
Steve Raitt: Fool's Game
Tommy Sims: I Can't Help You Now, Time Of Our Lives, Hear Me Lord
Bernard Fowler: I Can't Help You Now, Time Of Our Lives
Arnold McCuller: Wherever You May Be
Fred White: Wherever You May Be

Produced by Bonnie Raitt, Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake
Recorded and Mixed by Tchad Blake
Assisted by Jacquie Blake, also ProTools engineer

Back Around Recorded by John Paterno, Assisted by Adam Samuels
Additional overdubs on I Can't Help You Now Recorded by John Paterno, Assisted by Craig Conard

Recorded at The Sound Factory, Hollywood, California, USA, 2001

I Can't Help You Now mixed by Tchad Blake at Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, England
Assisted by Claire Lewis
ProTools: Jacquie Blake