Bonnie Raitt

★★★ Just Like That… REDWING. CD/DL/LP

First LP in six years revitalises the great guitarist and survivor.

Six years after her last LP, Dig In Deep, Just Like That…

reinvigorates 72-year-old Bonnie Raitt’s career, and even on her eighteenth studio LP she can find new worlds to explore. As one of those new worlds involves adding funk to her roots rock sound on Waitin’ For You To Blow, she might easily have fallen flat but for the grit of the subject matter – the easy pitfalls of addiction recovery – and the fact that she toured with the likes of Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker in her youth. It’s testament to Raitt’s willingness to hang her life experience on the line, too, but the core of Just Like That..., from slick single Made Up Mind to touching acoustic closer Down The Hall, is solid and dependable rather than spectacular. Andy Fyfe