Home Plate

by Bonnie Raitt

Home Plate cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 32:20
  • Community rating: 3.03/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced by Paul A. Rothchild, 'Home Plate' finds Bonnie Raitt moving away from her gritty blues origins toward a highly polished, commercial soft rock sound. Utilizing an extensive cast of Los Angeles session players, the album emphasizes warm, melodic interpretations of contemporary singer-songwriter material.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic

Tracklist

  1. What Do You Want the Boy to Do? (3:19)
  2. Good Enough (2:56)
  3. Run Like a Thief (3:02)
  4. Fool Yourself (3:04)
  5. My First Night Alone Without You (3:03)
  6. Walk Out the Front Door (3:09)
  7. Sugar Mama (3:45)
  8. Pleasin' Each Other (3:44)
  9. I'm Blowin' Away (3:25)
  10. Your Sweet and Shiny Eyes (2:47)

Credits

  • Bonnie Raitt - primary artist, slide guitar [electric], vocals, vocal
  • Fred Tackett - acoustic guitar, twelve-string guitar, mandolin, electric piano [fender rhodes], written-by, 12 string guitar acoustic guitar guest mandolin, hornarranger
  • John Sebastian - autoharp
  • Maxayn Lewis - backing vocals, background vocals guest vocal
  • Robbie Montgomery - backing vocals, background vocals guest vocal
  • Venetta Fields - backing vocals, background vocals guest vocal
  • Jim Gordon - baritone saxophone, baritone saxophone guest
  • Jai Winding - clavinet, piano

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