Bonnie Raitt Just Like That (180g Vinyl LP) * * *

2023 Grammy Award-Winner for Song of the Year ("Just Like That"), Best American Roots Song ("Just Like That" and Best Americana Performance ("Made Up Mind")

With Just Like That..., her twenty-first album and first new release in more than six years, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bonnie Raitt continues to display the vitality and urgency that has defined her legendary career. The mix of sounds and approaches on Just Like That... reveals how, 50 years after the release of her debut album, Raitt continues to personify what it means to stay creative, adventurous, and daring over the course of a life's work. "On this record, I wanted to stretch," she says. "I always want to find songs that excite me, and what's different this time is that I've tried some styles and topics I haven't touched on before."

Just Like That... was recorded in the summer of 2021 in Sausalito, CA. The players include two longtime members of Raitt's band, bassist James "Hutch" Hutchinson and drummer Ricky Fataar, as well as two new musicians, Canadian Glenn Patscha on keyboards and backing vocals and Nashville guitarist Kenny Greenberg. Her longtime guitarist/songwriting partner George Marinelli also joined in, playing and singing on "Livin' for the Ones," the song they co-wrote for the album.

Once again, Bonnie took the producer reins, reuniting with her favorite recording and mixing engineer, Ryan Freeland, for their third collaboration (they each earned Grammy Awards for Raitt's 2012 release, Slipstream).