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- July 22, 1991: View Points:Music
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 22, 1991 The Colorado
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- VIEW POINTS, Page 65
- MUSIC
- Sunshine Girl
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- <p>By Jay Cocks
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- <p> So this is the music that a happy heart sings: love songs of
- wistfulness and tentative fulfillment, blues that take the full
- measure of a strong, worldly spirit. Bonnie Raitt's LUCK OF THE
- DRAW (Capitol), the follow-up to her breakthrough, breakaway
- 1989 album Nick of Time, had every right to be a record that
- took things for granted. All those Grammys, all those sales,
- after two decades of hard scuffling along the commercial
- fringe. She even, for Lord's sake, got married. Can anyone so
- blessed keep her edge? Easily. The tone of the new album is set
- by the superb title cut, a fleet bit of narrative songwriting
- by Paul Brady about a waitress who yearns to make it big as a
- Hollywood writer. Raitt gets the poignancy of the waitress's
- ambition, and its irony too: her dream of making it in Hollywood
- as a screenwriter is like a Grand Prix hopeful's dreaming of
- driving a radio cab. Raitt keeps that trim balance of wit,
- perspective and unforced compassion throughout. A singer who has
- made so much capital out of stormy weather could easily have
- lost her way in the sunshine. Raitt navigates in fine style to
- the far side of the silver lining.
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