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An exquisite interpretive singer and formidable guitarist who'd long ago honed her bluesy chops, Raitt raised the stakes by mixing the usual gourmet spread of smart cover choices with her own candid songs--and she knocked one over the fence with the opening track, the album's title song and a moving confession of a boomer's anxieties about age, death, and the impermanence of love. \"Nick of Time\" catapulted a feisty rock tomboy into a new station that made her as admired by female fans as the stage door johnnies who'd long loved her rock technique, and she covered the bet with other outside songs from John Hiatt (\"Thing Called Love\"), Bonnie Hayes (\"Love Letter,\" \"Have a Heart\"), and Jerry L. Williams (\"Real Man\") that resonated with her persona as a tough, smart, but ultimately tender woman. --Sam Sutherland\n\nProduct Description\n\nAfter 17 years of impressing blues fans and nibbling at the pop charts, Raitt reached #1 and won four Grammys with this 1989 triumph. 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Jones's own material, while not bad, pales a bit next to such masterpieces. They might have fared better had she and producer Arif Mardin opted for some livelier arrangements, taking better advantage of brilliant sidemen such as Bill Frisell, Kevin Breit, and Brian Blade; or if the tunes had simply been given less laconic performances. Jones has all the tools; what will come with experience and some careful listening to artists like J.J. Cale and Shirley Horn is the knack of remaining low-key without sounding sleepy--sometimes less is not, in fact, more. --Michael Ross\n\nProduct Description\n\nNorah Jones, with her honey-and-smoke voice, trans cends musical genres, drawing as much upon folk-ba sed pop and country as she does jazz, blues and classic soul. Production by the legendary Arif Mardin, of Aretha Franklin. Roberta Flack, and Willie Nelson fame, to name a few. 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Enter Steve Lillywhite, the band's original producer and sometime collaborator in the decades since, who helped retool the track \"Native Son\" (originally an antigun screed) into the aggressive iPod anthem \"Vertigo\" and leaves his distinctive stamp on the muscular \"All Because of You.\" Perhaps weary of ceaseless, fashion-driven reinvention in the wake of monumental success, U2 seem only too happy here to re-embrace their original sonic trademarks in service of more daring, pop-melodic hooks than they've collected in one place in decades. The Eno\/Lanois produced \"Love and Peace or Else\" may shimmer with the duo's electro-production conceits, but it's Edge's lugubrious, postmodern John Lee Hooker guitar swagger that drives it. 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No matter that Plant seems so subdued as to be on downers, for that's one of the keys to this most improbable meeting of musical galaxies--almost all of it seems slowed down, out of time, otherworldly, and at times downright David Lynch-ian, the product of an altered consciousness. Yet probably the main reason it all works so well is the choice of producer T Bone Burnette, the third star of the album, who culled mostly lesser-known material from some of the great writers of blues, country, folk, gospel, and R\u0026amp;B, including Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Milt Campbell, the Everly Brothers, Sam Phillips, and A.D. and Rosa Lee Watson. At times, Burnette's spare and deliberate soundscape--incisively crafted by guitarists Marc Ribot and Norman Blake, bassist Dennis Crouch, drummer Jay Bellerose, and multi-instrumentalist Mike Seeger, among others--is nearly as dreamy and subterranean as Daniel Lanois's work with Emmylou Harris (Wrecking Ball). Occasionally, Burnette opts for a fairly straightforward production while still reworking the original song (Plant's own \"Please Read the Letter,\" Mel Tillis's \"Stick with Me, Baby\"). But much of the new flesh on these old bones is oddly unsettling, if not nightmarish. On the opening track of \"Rich Woman,\" the soft-as-clouds vocals strike an optimistic mood, while the instrumental backing--loose snare, ominous bass line, and insinuating electric guitar lines--create a spooky, sinister undertow. Plant and Krauss trade out the solo and harmony vocals, and while they both venture into new waters here (Krauss as a mainstream blues mama, Plant as a gospel singer and honkytonker), she steals the show in Sam Phillips' new \"Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us,\" where a dramatic violin and tremulous banjo strike a foreboding gypsy tone. When Krauss begins this strange, seductive song in a voice so ethereal that angels will take note, you may stop breathing. 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Produced by the celebrated Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers), who saw the Chicks as \"a great rock act making a country album, not a country act making a rock album,\" their new record impresses both as beautiful sonic tapestry (peppered with myriad Beatlesque hallmarks) and forthright yet vulnerable portrait of three women shaken by the personal and political events of the past few years. As they make clear in the defiant \"Not Ready to Make Nice,\" they still smart over the backlash from their 2003 Bushwhacking. But as they assert on the equally autobiographical \"The Long Way Around,\" they could never \"kiss all the asses that they told me to\" and just follow others aimlessly--and silently--through life. This means that the Chicks are simultaneously prideful and scornful of celebrity (\"Everybody Knows\"), and that as new mothers they increasingly treasure the refuge they find in life with their families, out of the spotlight (\"Easy Silence,\" \"Lullaby,\" \"Baby Hold On\"). The push and pull of both passions drive this record, which also touches on the personal issues of infertility (with which sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison both dealt) and Alzheimer's (from which Natalie Maines's grandmother suffers). The trio crafted all 14 cuts with the help of such writers as Sheryl Crow, Gary Louris, Mike Campbell, and Keb' Mo', laying out their lives as honestly and intimately as they might in their diaries. For that reason, on first listen, Taking the Long Way seems too somber--in need of a bit of levity and more than a couple of uptempo songs (like the sexy, '60s-flavored \"I Like It\") to resonate for the long haul. 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