Takin' My Time

Takin' My Time
Studio album by Bonnie Raitt
Released	October 1973
Recorded	Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood, Village Recorders, Los Angeles[1]
Genre	Rock
Length	37:37
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	John Hall
Bonnie Raitt chronology
Give It Up (1972) Takin' My Time (1973) Streetlights (1974)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B+ [3]
Robert Christgau	A− [4]
Rolling Stone	(average) [5]

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." ^{[6] [7]}

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

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

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Production

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

References