Nine Lives

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Bonnie Raitt
Nine Lives
Warner Bros. Records
W2 25486
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1. no way to treat a lady 3:52
(BRYAN ADAMS/ JIM VALLANCE)
Irving Music, Inc. BMI /Adams Communications/ Calypso Toonz PROCAN
drum: john robinson
bass: nathan east
guitar: dean parks, michael landau (solo)
acoustic piano and keyboards: bill payne
backing vocals: rosemary butler, max carl

2. runnin' back to me 4:16
(KARLA BONOFF / IRA INGBER) Seagrape Music BMI / Colonel Muscle Tone Music ASCAP
drums: john robinson
bass: neil stubenhaus
guitars: dean parks, ira ingber, bonnie raitt, michael landau
keyboards: bill payne
horns: tower of power horn section
t saxophone: richard elliot
horns arranged by greg adams

3. who but a fool (thief into paradise) 4:23
(NAN O'BYRNE/TOM SNOW)
Dumaine Music ASCAP / Snow Music BMI
drums: russ kunkel
bass: nathan east
guitar: charles ferrin
slide guitar: bonnie raitt
keyboards: bill payne
percussion: lenny castro
horns: tower of power horn section
t saxophone: richard elliot
backing vocals: bonnie raitt, rosemary butler, max carl, ivan neville, earl smith
horns arranged by greg adams

4. crime of passion 4:19
(DANNY IRONSTONE/MARY UNOBSKY)
Delfern Music/Fifty South Music BMI / Paw Prince Music ASCAP
drums: carlos vega
bass: leland sklar
guitar: dean parks, michael landau
keyboards: bill payne
percussion: lenny castro
backing vocals: bonnie raitt, rosemary butler, max carl

5. all day, all night 4:01
(IVAN NEVILLE/HUTCH HUTCHINSON/RONALD JONES)
Sunset Bench Music BMI
drums: carlos vega
bass: neil stubenhaus
guitar: dean parks, michael landau (solo)
keyboards: bill payne
percussion: lenny castro
backing vocals: ivan neville, rosemary butler, max carl

6. stand up to the night** 4:42
(WILL JENNINGS/J.A.C. REDFORD/RICHARD KERR)
Tyrell-Mann Music Corp./ Absotively Music BMI/Glory Music Company/Shoot For The Moon Music ASCAP
guitars and linn drum program: david kitay
keyboards: j.a.c. redford, richard "koz" kosinski
additional keyboards: guy moon
backing vocals: rosemary butler, max carl

7. excited* 3:11 (JERRY WILLIAMS)
Blackwood Music Inc./Urge Music BMI
saxophone: david woodford
drums: ian wallace
guitars: johnny lee schell
keyboards: ian "'mac" mclagan
bass: ray ohara
backing vocals: blondie chaplin, steve ross, bonnie raitt

8. freezin' (for a little human love) * 4:52
(MICHAEL SMOTHERMAN)
Koppleman Family Music-Bandier Family Music/ R.L. August Music Co./Seventh Son Music, Inc./Garbo Music/If Eyes, Inc. ASCAP
drums and linn drum: ian wallace
guitar: johnny lee schell
keyboards: ian "'mac" mclagan
bass: ray ohara

9. true love is hard to find* 4:35
(TOOTS HIBBERT)
Island Music, Inc. BMI
drums: ian wallace
guitar: johnny lee schell
acoustic guitar: bonnie raitt
keyboards: ian "mac" mclagan
bass: ray ohara
backing vocals: blondie chaplin, bonnie rait, johnny lee schell
with special guest appearance by sippie wallace

10. angel* 4:02
(ERIC KAZ)
Glasco Music ASCAP
drums: ian wallace
guitar: johnny lee schell
slide guitar: bonnie raitt
keyboards: ian "'mac'" mclagan
acoustic piano: eric kaz
backing vocals: christine mcvie, blondie chaplin, steve ross, todd sharp
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percussion on the rob fraboni tracks by ian wallace, johnny lee schell, rob frabani, ray ohara
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tower of power horn section is:
greg adams: trumpet, flugelhorn
emilio castillo: tenor saxophone
richard elliot: tenor and alto saxophone
stephen kupka: baritone saxophone
lee thornburg: trumpet, trombone, flugelhorn
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PRODUCED BY BILL PAYNE AND GEORGE MASSENBURG with Russ Kunkel on "Who But A Fool (Thief Into Paradise)"
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Mixed and Engineered by George Massenburg
Assistant Engineers: Sharon Rice and Billy Youdelman
Recorded and Mixed at The Complex, West Los Angeles, Spring, 1986
Digitally recorded on the Mitsubishi X-850 32-track

Special thanks to Doug Buttleman and Yamaha International Corp.

Production Coordinator: Ivy Skoff

Max Carl appears courtesy of MCA Records
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*PRODUCED BY ROB FRABONI
Engineered by Terry Becker and Rob Fraboni
Additional Engineering: John Volaitis
Recorded and Mixed at Shangri-la Studios, Malibu, 1983
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**PRODUCED BY STEVE TYRELL FOR TYRELL-MANN PRODUCTIONS for the Atlantic Film, EXTREMETIES

Engineered by David Kitay
Recorded at Tyrell-Mann Studio, Los Angeles, 1986
Mixed by David Tickle at Ocean Way Studio, Hollywood

Album originally mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles
Art Direction/Design: Laura LiPuma
Cover Illustration: Lindsey Loch
Photography: Jim Shea
Wardrobe: Margi Kent
Makeup: Denise Pauly
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Management: Danny Goldberg/Ron Stone
Booking: Monterey Peninsula Artists, Carmel Highlands, California
Mail and Business: Jeffrey Hersh/The Going Raitt, Box 626, Los Angeles, Calif. 90078
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Special thanks to all the writers, musicians, engineers and producers who brought so much of themselves to this project to my Home Sweet Home team who stoke that ongoing career furnace: Jeffrey, Ron, Danny, Nat Weiss, Monterey Peninsula Artists, Tim Bernett, Dick Waterman and my band and crew and to my friends at Warner Bros. who helped make this record a reality: Lenny Waronker, Russ Thyret, Carl Scott, Laura LiPuma and especially Felix Chamberlain, without whom this record couldn't have been made.
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