Home Plate [Original recording reissued]

Bonnie Raitt | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002KFR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #345,881 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. What Do You Want the Boy to Do?

2. Good Enough

3. Run Like a Thief

4. Fool Yourself

5. My First Night Alone Without You

6. Walk Out the Front Door

7. Sugar Mama

8. Pleasin' Each Other

9. I'm Blowin' Away

10. Your Sweet and Shiny Eyes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bonnie Raitt in all her glory, June 3, 1998

By 

Casey Stewart "kcfoxy: accept no substitute" (San Joaquin Delta) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Home Plate (Audio CD)

A friend of mine asked me to recommend some Bonnie Raitt albums-of course I like them all-but this is one of three or four I felt are most fully realized in terms of group cohesion, balance of songs selected etc.

Bonnie, Freebo and the gang are wonderful at making you laugh and especially at creating that blue mood: Songs like First Night Alone Without You and Run Like A Thief have me sniffling just at their mention!

That said, it comes through the music that the band was in full-throttle boogie with this effort. If I didn't know better I would have said Bonnie was in love around the time this album was created. A most worthy addition to your listening pleasure.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Groovy, August 10, 2001

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A. Butterfield (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Home Plate (Audio CD)

Well, that was just one word that came to mind. Of all Bonnie's albums, and there are plenty now, I come back to this one time after time. Songs like "Good Enough" and "Walk Out the Front Door" are definitely groovy enough to make you want to dress up in something from the seventies and dance rather embarrassingly. Just remember to tone it down for some of Bonnie's most aching ballads, like the impossibly perfect "Run Like a Thief", and the sumptuous, almost Streisand-esque "My First Night Alone Without You". "I'm Blowin' Away" is another one. It's hard to choose a favourite, but they all have that ability to tug on you and make you part of the song. I defy anyone not to sing along to just about every track, right up to the simple bar-room singalong of "Sweet and Shiny Eyes", the perfect ending to one of my favourite albums of all time.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of Bonnie, April 27, 2002

By 

Esther Summerson "Blueheart2" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Plate (Audio CD)

I have loved Bonnie Raitt for decades, and I have most of her albums. This one may be the best - because each song is not only a wonderfully written piece of music, but it is performed & recorded beautifully - especially great considering this was made in the mid-70's. Several poignant ballads ( I'm Blowing Away is one), and a number of hot blues tunes too make it a good mixture as well.....Grab it - you won't regret it, I know!