Silver Lining (Bonnie Raitt album)

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Silver Lining
Bonnie Raitt - Silver Lining.jpg
Studio album by
Bonnie Raitt
ReleasedApril 9, 2002
Studio Sound Factory, Hollywood, California
Genre Rock
Length51:12
Label Capitol
Producer Bonnie Raitt, Tchad Blake,
Mitchell Froom
Bonnie Raitt chronology
Fundamental
(1998)		Silver Lining
(2002)		 Souls Alike
(2005)
Alternate cover
Bonnie Raitt - Silver Lining alternate cover.jpg
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic (74/100) [1]
Review scores
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Billboard (favorable) [3]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
New Zealand Herald Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
PopMatters (favourable) [6]
Los Angeles Daily News Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Robert Christgau B− [8]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]
USA Today Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]

Silver Lining is the fourteenth studio album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 2002 on Capitol Records. [11] The album peaked at No. 13 on the US Billboard 200 [12] Silver Lining has also been certified Gold in the US by the RIAA. [13]

Contents

Critical reception

Silver Lining received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 74 based on 11 reviews, which indicates "generally favourable reviews". [1]

Edna Gundersen of USA Today wrote, "Silver Lining, produced by Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake, showcases Raitt's knack for pop elegance in such tunes as the title track (by David Gray) and aching ballad Wounded Heart. But it also proves Raitt isn't afraid to get a little Delta mud under her fingernails in pursuit of pure funk and earthy grooves. Less polished than recent efforts, the album has a loose, raucous party vibe that never resorts to sloppy shortcuts. Slabs of boogie, gospelized R&B and raw blues recall the organic might of the Meters and Little Feat yet crackle with freshness and vitality." [10] Jason MacNeil of PopMatters proclaimed "While it doesn’t contain the radio friendly tracks of past classics like “Thing Called Love” or “Something To Talk About”, the album as a whole is definitely one of her strongest to date.“ [6]

Natalie Nichols of Los Angeles Times claimed "Raitt continues to explore common threads in music across cultures with her 16th album. Yet "Silver Lining" is no academic exercise, but a varied collection incorporating her trademark Delta-influenced blues-rock, African styles, New Orleans boogie and modern adult-pop elements." [5]

What's more two songs from Silver Lining, Gnawin' On It and Time of Our Lives, earned Grammy nominations in the category of Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. [14]

Singles

Singles I Can't Help You Now peaked at No. 15 and Silver Lining got to No. 21 on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary Songs chart. Another song from the album, called Time of Our Lives, also got to No. 27 on that said chart. [12]

Track listing

  1. "Fool's Game" (Jon Cleary) – 4:08
  2. "I Can't Help You Now" (Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Tommy Sims) – 3:13
  3. "Silver Lining" (David Gray) – 6:19
  4. "Time of Our Lives" (Teron Beal, Tommy Sims) – 4:00
  5. "Gnawin' on It" (Raitt, Roy Rogers) – 4:44
  6. "Monkey Business" (Jon Cleary) – 3:36
  7. "Wherever You May Be" (Alan Darby, Gavin Hodgson) – 5:31
  8. "Valley of Pain" (Rob Mathes, Allen Shamblin) – 4:27
  9. "Hear Me Lord" (Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi) – 5:09
  10. "No Gettin' Over You" (Raitt) – 4:45
  11. "Back Around" (Habib Koité, Raitt) – 5:15
  12. "Wounded Heart" (Jude Johnstone) – 4:13

Personnel

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Production

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [17] Gold500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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  10. 1 2 Gundersen, Edna (April 9, 2002). "Goo Goo Dolls nurture a pretty 'Gutterflower'". USA Today . Retrieved December 8, 2024.
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