Just Like That...

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When Bonnie Raitt was dreaming up <i>Just Like That...</i>, her first album in six year, she had a very specific mission in mind: Record the songs she’s always wanted to, and especially the most soulful, funky ones she could find. “I always got my ear cocked for either old soul chestnuts or some obscure album cut off of an artist that I haven't listened to for a while,” she told Apple Music's Zane Lowe. “I'm just always hunting.” Some of the songs are covers or tributes inspired by other artists: She fell in love with The Bro. Landreth’s “Made Up Mind,” the album’s lead-off track, when the band opened for her on tour in 2014, while Al Anderson of NRBQ’s “Something’s Got a Hold of My Heart” has been stuck in her head for three decade. Other, like the album’s title track, are new compositions inspired by the legendary singer-songwriter’s own favorite songs and songwriter. “I knew that this time when I wrote, I wanted to write from a third-person point of view,” Bonnie Raitt said. “Either a short story or something that moved me out in the world from somebody else's life story, because I'd really mined a lot of my own personal life. I'd pretty much covered all the members of my family, my relationship, and I just loved story song, and I hadn't done one except for a song called 'All at Once' that I did years ago. I love John Prine's 'Angel From Montgomery' and 'Donald and Lydia,' and I love the music of early Dylan, the first few albums where it's just him fingerpicking in a voice unadorned. I wanted a song to tell as a very simple story.” .

via Apple Music

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