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Give It Up
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Bonnie Raitt
Give It Up
Warner Bros. Records
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1. Give It Up Or Let Me Go 4:28
(Bonnie Raitt) Kokomo Music - ASCAP
Bonnie Raitt - vocal and bottleneck National steel guitar
Jack Viertel- National steel rhythm guitar
Dave Holland - acoustic bass
Lou Terriciano - piano
Chris Parker - drums
John Payne - soprano saxophone
Peter Eckland - cornet
Amos Garrett – trombone
Freebo - tuba
2. Nothing Seems To Matter 4:04
(Bonnie Raitt) Kokomo Music - ASCAP
Bonnie Raitt - vocal and acoustic guitar
Freebo - 12 string rhythm guitar
Dave Holland - acoustic bass
Eric Kaz - vibes
John Payne - tenor saxophone
Wells Kelly - conga
3. I Know 3:40
(Barbara George) At Last Pub. Co. - BMI
Bonnie Raitt -lead vocal, bottleneck National steel guitar
T.J. Tindall- electric guitar
Mark Jordan - piano and vibes
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
Wells Kelly - drums, conga, cowbell
Peter Eckland - cornet
Background vocals - Bonnie, Freebo, Wells, John Hall and Jackie Lomax
4. If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody 2:54
(Rudy Clarke) Good Songs, Inc. - BMI
Bonnie Raitt - vocal and acoustic guitar
Kal David - electric guitar
Merl Saunders - piano
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
Chris Parker - drums
Marty Grebb - tenor saxophone
5. Love Me Like A Man 3:10
(Chris Smither, Lyrics adapted by Bonnie Raitt)
Poppy Music/Homunculus Music - ASCAP
Bonnie Raitt - vocal and acoustic guitar
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
Dennis Whitted - drums
6. Too Long At The Fair 2:54
(Joel Zoss) Catalan Pub. Co., Inc. - BMI
Bonnie Raitt - vocal, acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar
John Hall- electric guitar
Eric Kaz - piano
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
Wells Kelly - drums
Gene Stashuk - cello
7. Under The Falling Sky 3:38
(Jackson Browne) Benchmark Music - ASCAP
Bonnie Raitt - vocal, acoustic guitar
T.J. Tindall- electric guitar
Mark Jordan - electric pian
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
Wells Kelly - drums, cowbell
Paul Butterfield - harp
Background vocals - Bonnie and Tim Moore
8. You Got To Know How 3:32
(Sippie Wallace, add. lyrics by Jack Viertel) Olwen Music - BMI
Bonnie Raitt - vocal, acoustic guitar
Lou Terriciano - piano
Dave Holland - acoustic bass
Chris Parker - drums
John Payne - clarinet
9. You Told Me Baby 4:01
(Bonnie Raitt) Kokomo Music - ASCAP
Bonnie Raitt - vocal, electric rhythm guitar
John Hall- electric guitar, "steel drum" guitar
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
Wells Kelly - drums, conga
John Payne - soprano saxophone, solo tenor saxophone
Marty Grebb - alto saxophone
Terry Eaton - tenor saxophone
Horn arrangement - Eric Kaz
10. Love Has No Pride 3:43
(Eric Kaz - Libby Titus) Glasco Music Co. - ASCAP
Bonnie Raitt - vocal, acoustic guitar and piano
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
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PRODUCED BY MICHAEL CUSCUNA
Recording engineer: Kendall "Do the Dog" Pacios
Re-mix engineers: Kendall Pacios and Nick Jameson
Recorded June, 1972, at Bearsville Recording Studios, Bearsville, New York
CD Remastered by Lee Herschberg
CDD Pre-Mastering by The Record Group
Special thanks to Nick, Eric, Susan, Claudia, Danny, Jack, Kendall, Allen, Michael Dobo, Peter Johnson, Maria Muldaur; Johanna Hall, Paul Siebel, Flo, Roebuck, Prune, and Cain. And of course, bless you Mr. Boskoff.
This album is dedicated to the people of North Vietnam and the loving memory of a dear friend, Fred McDowell.
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This album was made primarily with musicians from the Woodstock area. Freebo travels regularly with Bonnie and appeared on her first album. On several tracks, he is reunited with Mark Jordan and T.J. Tindall. Together with drummer Rip Stock, they comprised Philadelphia’s Edison Electric Band and made one album for Atlantic. Mark, who also appears on Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey album, is currently Dave Mason's pianist, T.J. is still based in Philadelphia and has worked with the Chambers Brothers, Gamble and Huff Productions and is now with the Van Eaton Brothers. Like Bonnie and Freebo, Lou Terriciano (a fine singer as well as pianist) and John Payne are based in Cambridge.
John was the reed man on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album and presently works with Cambridge singer-songwriter Peter Johnson and his brother Hunter Payne. The remaining musicians are based in Woodstock. John Hall and Wells Kelly are two-thirds of a new band called Orleans. John has worked with Taj Mahal, written for Janis Joplin and done a great deal of studio work. Wells appears on most of John Simon's album and has travelled and recorded with many bands. Marty Grebb, Terry Eaton and Kal David are all members of the Fabulous Rhinestones and appear courtesy of Just Sunshine Records. Paul Butterfield appears courtesy of Bearsville Records. Amos Garrett, Chris Parker and Merl Saunders are members of Paul's new band. Merl, a respected San Francisco jazzman, appears courtesy of Fantasy Records. Peter Eckland is in another Bearsville band, Hungry Chuck. Eric Kaz, who is currently recording his own album for Atlantic, is a fine singer-songwriter and has been travelling with Happy and Artie Traum. The two Warner Bros. albums by Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth feature six of his songs. Dave Holland is a respected British bassist, who spent most of the late 60s playing with Miles Davis. He is currently recording with John Hartford and rehearsing with Buzzy Feiten.
- MICHAEL CUSCUNA
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Photography: Michael Dobo
Art Direction: Ed Thrasher
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NOTES
With a flair for blues, R&B, pop and folk stylings, Bonnie Raitt is one of the most versatile and accomplished vocalists in contemporary music. Her 1972 release, Give It Up, is a sparkling example of her distinctive musical gift. Produced by Michael Cuscuna, Give It Up features compositions by such top-notch songwriters as Jackson Browne and Eric Kaz, as well as original material penned by Raitt. The daughter of Broadway singer John Raitt, star of Pajama Game and Carousel, Bonnie Raitt began playing guitar at age 12 and was almost immediately attracted to such blues artists as Sippie Wallace, Howlin' Wolf and Mississippi Fred McDowell. In 1967 she moved from Los Angeles to the Boston area where she quickly garnered a loyal following in local blues clubs and coffee houses.
Longtime blues aficionado Dick Waterman became her manager and she soon began sharing the stage with many of the blues artists who had influenced her. Raitt's self-titled debut album was released in 1971 and immediately earned her critical raves and a large following among discerning music fans. Her impeccably chosen repertoire included many obscure blues classics and was augmented by bottleneck guitar playing that compared favorably with the masters of the style. Bonnie Raitt was followed in the summer of 1972 by Give It Up. The LP mixes Raitt's blues roots (heard on songs such as Sippie Wallace's "You Got To Know How") with memorable renditions of contemporary material, including Jackson Browne's "Under The Falling Sky" and Eric Kaz's "Love Has No Pride." Give It Up also features three Raitt originals: "Give It Up or Let Me Go," "Nothing Seems To Matter" and "You Told Me Baby." Raitt also adapted lyrics to Chris Smither's memorable: “Love Me Like A Man."
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Bonnie Raitt
Give It Up
Warner Bros. Records
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1. Give It Up Or Let Me Go 4:28
(Bonnie Raitt) Kokomo Music - ASCAP
Bonnie Raitt - vocal and bottleneck National steel guitar
Jack Viertel- National steel rhythm guitar
Dave Holland - acoustic bass
Lou Terriciano - piano
Chris Parker - drums
John Payne - soprano saxophone
Peter Eckland - cornet
Amos Garrett – trombone
Freebo - tuba
2. Nothing Seems To Matter 4:04
(Bonnie Raitt) Kokomo Music - ASCAP
Bonnie Raitt - vocal and acoustic guitar
Freebo - 12 string rhythm guitar
Dave Holland - acoustic bass
Eric Kaz - vibes
John Payne - tenor saxophone
Wells Kelly - conga
3. I Know 3:40
(Barbara George) At Last Pub. Co. - BMI
Bonnie Raitt -lead vocal, bottleneck National steel guitar
T.J. Tindall- electric guitar
Mark Jordan - piano and vibes
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
Wells Kelly - drums, conga, cowbell
Peter Eckland - cornet
Background vocals - Bonnie, Freebo, Wells, John Hall and Jackie Lomax
4. If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody 2:54
(Rudy Clarke) Good Songs, Inc. - BMI
Bonnie Raitt - vocal and acoustic guitar
Kal David - electric guitar
Merl Saunders - piano
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
Chris Parker - drums
Marty Grebb - tenor saxophone
5. Love Me Like A Man 3:10
(Chris Smither, Lyrics adapted by Bonnie Raitt)
Poppy Music/Homunculus Music - ASCAP
Bonnie Raitt - vocal and acoustic guitar
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
Dennis Whitted - drums
6. Too Long At The Fair 2:54
(Joel Zoss) Catalan Pub. Co., Inc. - BMI
Bonnie Raitt - vocal, acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar
John Hall- electric guitar
Eric Kaz - piano
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
Wells Kelly - drums
Gene Stashuk - cello
7. Under The Falling Sky 3:38
(Jackson Browne) Benchmark Music - ASCAP
Bonnie Raitt - vocal, acoustic guitar
T.J. Tindall- electric guitar
Mark Jordan - electric pian
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
Wells Kelly - drums, cowbell
Paul Butterfield - harp
Background vocals - Bonnie and Tim Moore
8. You Got To Know How 3:32
(Sippie Wallace, add. lyrics by Jack Viertel) Olwen Music - BMI
Bonnie Raitt - vocal, acoustic guitar
Lou Terriciano - piano
Dave Holland - acoustic bass
Chris Parker - drums
John Payne - clarinet
9. You Told Me Baby 4:01
(Bonnie Raitt) Kokomo Music - ASCAP
Bonnie Raitt - vocal, electric rhythm guitar
John Hall- electric guitar, "steel drum" guitar
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
Wells Kelly - drums, conga
John Payne - soprano saxophone, solo tenor saxophone
Marty Grebb - alto saxophone
Terry Eaton - tenor saxophone
Horn arrangement - Eric Kaz
10. Love Has No Pride 3:43
(Eric Kaz - Libby Titus) Glasco Music Co. - ASCAP
Bonnie Raitt - vocal, acoustic guitar and piano
Freebo - Fender fretless bass
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PRODUCED BY MICHAEL CUSCUNA
Recording engineer: Kendall "Do the Dog" Pacios
Re-mix engineers: Kendall Pacios and Nick Jameson
Recorded June, 1972, at Bearsville Recording Studios, Bearsville, New York
CD Remastered by Lee Herschberg
CDD Pre-Mastering by The Record Group
Special thanks to Nick, Eric, Susan, Claudia, Danny, Jack, Kendall, Allen, Michael Dobo, Peter Johnson, Maria Muldaur; Johanna Hall, Paul Siebel, Flo, Roebuck, Prune, and Cain. And of course, bless you Mr. Boskoff.
This album is dedicated to the people of North Vietnam and the loving memory of a dear friend, Fred McDowell.
_____________________________________________________________
This album was made primarily with musicians from the Woodstock area. Freebo travels regularly with Bonnie and appeared on her first album. On several tracks, he is reunited with Mark Jordan and T.J. Tindall. Together with drummer Rip Stock, they comprised Philadelphia’s Edison Electric Band and made one album for Atlantic. Mark, who also appears on Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey album, is currently Dave Mason's pianist, T.J. is still based in Philadelphia and has worked with the Chambers Brothers, Gamble and Huff Productions and is now with the Van Eaton Brothers. Like Bonnie and Freebo, Lou Terriciano (a fine singer as well as pianist) and John Payne are based in Cambridge.
John was the reed man on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album and presently works with Cambridge singer-songwriter Peter Johnson and his brother Hunter Payne. The remaining musicians are based in Woodstock. John Hall and Wells Kelly are two-thirds of a new band called Orleans. John has worked with Taj Mahal, written for Janis Joplin and done a great deal of studio work. Wells appears on most of John Simon's album and has travelled and recorded with many bands. Marty Grebb, Terry Eaton and Kal David are all members of the Fabulous Rhinestones and appear courtesy of Just Sunshine Records. Paul Butterfield appears courtesy of Bearsville Records. Amos Garrett, Chris Parker and Merl Saunders are members of Paul's new band. Merl, a respected San Francisco jazzman, appears courtesy of Fantasy Records. Peter Eckland is in another Bearsville band, Hungry Chuck. Eric Kaz, who is currently recording his own album for Atlantic, is a fine singer-songwriter and has been travelling with Happy and Artie Traum. The two Warner Bros. albums by Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth feature six of his songs. Dave Holland is a respected British bassist, who spent most of the late 60s playing with Miles Davis. He is currently recording with John Hartford and rehearsing with Buzzy Feiten.
- MICHAEL CUSCUNA
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Photography: Michael Dobo
Art Direction: Ed Thrasher
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NOTES
With a flair for blues, R&B, pop and folk stylings, Bonnie Raitt is one of the most versatile and accomplished vocalists in contemporary music. Her 1972 release, Give It Up, is a sparkling example of her distinctive musical gift. Produced by Michael Cuscuna, Give It Up features compositions by such top-notch songwriters as Jackson Browne and Eric Kaz, as well as original material penned by Raitt. The daughter of Broadway singer John Raitt, star of Pajama Game and Carousel, Bonnie Raitt began playing guitar at age 12 and was almost immediately attracted to such blues artists as Sippie Wallace, Howlin' Wolf and Mississippi Fred McDowell. In 1967 she moved from Los Angeles to the Boston area where she quickly garnered a loyal following in local blues clubs and coffee houses.
Longtime blues aficionado Dick Waterman became her manager and she soon began sharing the stage with many of the blues artists who had influenced her. Raitt's self-titled debut album was released in 1971 and immediately earned her critical raves and a large following among discerning music fans. Her impeccably chosen repertoire included many obscure blues classics and was augmented by bottleneck guitar playing that compared favorably with the masters of the style. Bonnie Raitt was followed in the summer of 1972 by Give It Up. The LP mixes Raitt's blues roots (heard on songs such as Sippie Wallace's "You Got To Know How") with memorable renditions of contemporary material, including Jackson Browne's "Under The Falling Sky" and Eric Kaz's "Love Has No Pride." Give It Up also features three Raitt originals: "Give It Up or Let Me Go," "Nothing Seems To Matter" and "You Told Me Baby." Raitt also adapted lyrics to Chris Smither's memorable: “Love Me Like A Man."
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Back to Bonnie Raitt's main page
Back to Top
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