A waiting room at the Los Angeles Union Station was used for the cover of Bonnie Raitt’s third album, “Takin My Time
Tracks:
Side One:
You’ve Been in Love Too Long
I Gave My Love a Candle
Let Me In
Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy
Cry Like a Rainstorm
Side Two:
Wah She Go Do
I Feel the Same
I Thought I Was a Child
Write Me a Few of Your Lines/Kokomo Blues
Guilty
Personnel:
Bonnie Raitt – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals, background vocals, handclapping, bottleneck guitar
Paul Barrere – electric guitar
George Bohanon – trombone
Sam Clayton – congas
Glenn Ferris – horn
Freebo – fretless bass, tuba, background vocals
Lowell George – slide guitar
John Hall – electric guitar, background vocals, handclapping, mellotron
Robert Hardaway – saxophone
Milt Holland – tabla, tambourine, timbales, claves, shaker
Jim Keltner – drums
Marty Krystall – saxophone
Taj Mahal – harmonica, vocals, background vocals, acoustic bass
Earl Palmer – drums
Van Dyke Parks – piano, keyboard, vocals, background vocals
Bill Payne – organ, piano, electric piano, vocals, background vocals
Joel Peskin – saxophone
Tony Terran – trumpet
Oscar Brashear – trumpet
Bud Brisbois – trumpet
Ernie Watts – soprano saxophone
Los Angeles Union Station
810 North Alameda Street
Los Angeles CA 90012
310 206-5388
A favorite album of mine since its first release in 1973. One of Bonnie’s best that stands up very well to the test of time. Fans of the original Little Feat who haven’t heard this should check it out – Lowell George, Paul Barerre & Bill Payne provide a lot ot the instrumental back-up on this record. Lowell & Paul’s smokin’ guitar interplay on her rendition of Chris Smithers’ “I Feel The Same” absolutely Sizzles!!! Produced by John & Joanna Hall – John later was the lead voice of Orleans – everybody’s heard “Dance With Me” right? This was done around the same time that Feat was working on the classic “Dixie Chicken” album. The photo of LAUPT was ( and still is) good to see — Amtrak had just started a coupla years earlier taking over what few remaining long-distance passenger trains that were still running. Arlo Guthrie’s hit “City of New Orleans” was from this time — with the line “… this train got the disappearin’ railroad blues….”