On June
24, Capitol Records/UMe will release a special vinyl-only edition of Bonnie
Raitt's classic NICK OF TIME in honor of the album's 25th anniversary. The Rock
and Roll Hall of Famer's tenth album still stands as her signature work and as
a turning point in her legendary career. It topped the Billboard 200 album
chart, sold five million copies, and won three GRAMMY® Awards, including “Album
of the Year.” Rolling Stone ranked NICK OF TIME as number 230 on its list of
the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time."
The NICK
OF TIME - 25th Anniversary album was remastered from the original analog tapes,
overseen by both the albums producer, Don Was and engineer Ed Cherney and is
being released on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl.
"Personally,
I think it may be the best record of my career," says Raitt. "Every
record has its charm and its significance, but I think we finally got it right
— I could finally say, 'Yeah, that's what I had in mind.' As a mixture of
styles, reflected in one record, it was a really good version of what I
do."
NICK OF
TIME came along at a fortuitous moment for Raitt, following a difficult few
years in which she had been dropped by her long-time label, Warner Bros., and
got sober and healthy. The album was produced by Don Was, which initiated a
working relationship that went on for several projects (the 1991 follow-up,
Luck of the Draw, sold over seven million copies), and spawned four singles,
including the hit "Thing Called Love." NICK OF TIME was bookended by
two landmark Raitt original compositions: the opening title track, a powerful
mediation on aging, and the closing cut, "The Road's My Middle Name,"
a rollicking update of the blues that captured her life as a traveling
performer.
"It's
a particularly great batch of songs," says Raitt, "and the
synchronicity of finding these songs when I did — the emotional connection and
the gratitude that I had to be given another shot — I think that shows. It was
kismet to have it come out this well."
More
than just a best-selling artist, respected guitarist, expressive singer, and
accomplished songwriter, Bonnie Raitt has become an institution in American
music. The recipient of ten GRAMMY® awards — including "Best Americana
Album" for her most recent release, 2012's Slipstream — she appears on
Rolling Stone's lists of both the Greatest Singers and Greatest Guitarists of
All Time. Over the years, Raitt has contributed to over 100 album projects,
collaborating with the likes of B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, and
Stevie Wonder. Yet it is the breakthrough of NICK OF TIME (which received an
additional GRAMMY® nomination when it was remixed for Surround Sound in 2004)
that serves as the cornerstone of her body of work.
"The
success of NICK OF TIME brought me a level of freedom, and the opportunities to
do everything I had wanted to do," says Raitt. "Nearly every gift in
my life now is, in so many ways, because of what happened with that album and
the GRAMMYs®. Definitely one of the greatest highlights of my life."
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