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...BONNIE RAITT: HOME PLATE (Warner Bros.; $6.98). Raitt fans patiently wait for Bonnie to make a record equal to the promise of her talent. Home Plate is close, yet still off base. Turning away more and more from the eloquent blues guitar that was the mainspring of her early success, Raitt draws most of her musical energy in her sweet husky voice. Songs like Sugar Mama, Good Enough and I'm Blowin' Away are good. However, she squanders her ability on soap opera ballads like My First Night Alone Without...
...feel you have heard this show some place, but the performers are something to be jubilant about. The stars are the kind you see in the skies−Patrice Munsel, Cyril Ritchard, Tammy Grimes, Larry Kurt, John Raitt, Dick Shawn and Lillian Gish. The three ladies stand out: Munsel with her silver-tongued lyric soprano; Grimes, who is a mischievous imp of the stage; and the in destructible Gish, who at 80 is still a darling little girl and a valiant trouper...
Ronstadt has few equals at blue-eyed soul; she has a more melodic voice than Joplin and a richer, stronger one than Bonnie Raitt, and she is as gritty and vital as ever. As in her last album, her efforts at it are limited to two, but both are up to her best. She screams and stomps her way through the old Martha and the Vandellas standard "Heat Wave," unleashing a wanton vitality that comes close to out-muscling the original version--no easy achievement. The same approach characterizes her earthy rendition of "Roll um Easy...
More mistakes. I've really got to get these caps together. Wanted to talk about Bonnie Raitt and The Eagles, but they were last night, it turns out. That's okay, because I was going to be nasty anyway...
...have to admit a one-time weakness for Mitchell, but I could never feel the same way about Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt or any other lady singer. Maybe I can't appreciate them because I've stopped listening to the radio, but I think it's because their songs all sound alike. I keep telling myself it's on account of the depression--even though the economy looks like it might survive this time--and record companies are only releasing women singers they can plug into a formula that will sell...