Slipstream (Bonnie Raitt album)

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Slipstream
Bonnie Raitt - Slipstream.jpg
Studio album by
Bonnie Raitt
ReleasedApril 10, 2012
Studio Ocean Way Recording, The Garfield House
Genre Rock, blues rock, americana
Length57:49
Label Redwing Records
Producer Bonnie Raitt, Joe Henry
Bonnie Raitt chronology
Souls Alike
(2005)		Slipstream
(2012)		 Dig In Deep
(2016)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 74/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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American Songwriter Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Blurt Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Boston Globe (positive) [5]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Entertainment Weekly A− [7]
Paste (8.5/10) [8]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Robert Christgau Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [9]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]

Slipstream is the sixteenth studio album by Bonnie Raitt, released in April 2012. [11] American Songwriter Magazine praised it as "her best album in years and one of the best of her 40-year career." [12]

Contents

Two singles were released from the album, a cover of Gerry Rafferty's "Right Down the Line", and "Used to Rule the World", both of which charted on the Billboard Triple A chart. [13] The album also spawned a highly successful concert tour. The Slipstream Tour was the 82nd best-selling American tour of 2012 earning 11.3 million dollars and selling 201,313 tickets. [14]

Critical reception

The album was listed at No. 22 on Rolling Stone's list of the top 50 albums of 2012, saying "As young stars like Adele and Katy Perry cover her songs, Raitt continues what she’s been doing, more or less, for 40-plus years." [15]

The album won for the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards. [16]

Commercial performance

Debuting at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, Slipstream became Raitt's highest-charting album in 18 years. [17] It also debuted at No. 1 on both the Rock Albums and Blues Albums charts. [18] [19] selling around 63,000 copies. The album has sold 334,000 albums in the US as of January 2016. [20]

Slipstream became the 106th best-selling album and 9th best-selling independent album in the United States in 2012. [21] [22] Slipstream was also the best-selling Blues album of 2012, and Bonnie Raitt was the best-selling Blues artist of 2012. [23] [24]

Track listing

  1. "Used to Rule the World" (Randall Bramblett) - 4:17
  2. "Right Down the Line" (Gerry Rafferty) - 5:29
  3. "Million Miles" (Bob Dylan) - 6:26
  4. "You Can't Fail Me Now" (Loudon Wainwright III, Joseph Lee Henry) - 4:18
  5. "Down to You" (George Marinelli, lyrics Raitt, Randall Bramblett) - 3:59
  6. "Take My Love with You" (Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Kelly Price) - 4:24
  7. "Not Cause I Wanted To" (Al Anderson, Bonnie Bishop) - 3:37
  8. "Ain't Gonna Let You Go" (Al Anderson, Bonnie Bramlett) - 5:59
  9. "Marriage Made in Hollywood" (Paul Brady, Michael O'Keefe) - 4:55
  10. "Split Decision" (Anderson, Gary Nicholson) - 4:35
  11. "Standing in the Doorway" (Bob Dylan) - 5:24
  12. "God Only Knows" (Joseph Lee Henry) - 4:26

Personnel

Production

Charts

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