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2. I Gave My Love A Candle

3. Let Me In

4. Everybody’s Cryin Mercy

5. Cry Like A Rainstorm

6. Wah She Go Do

7. I Feel The Same

8. I Thought I Was A Child

9. Write Me A Few Of Your Lines/ Kokomo Blues

10. Guilty

You’ve Been in Love Too Long – 3:40

(Clarence Paul, William Stevenson and Ivy Hunter)

Bonnie Raitt – vocal

Paul Barrere – electric rhythm guitar

John Hall – electric lead guitar

Freebo – fender fretless bass

Bill Payne – electric piano

John Hall, Bonnie Raitt – back-up vocals

Jim Keltner – drums

Milt Holland – tambourine

I Gave My Love a Candle – 4:20

(Joel Zoss)

Bonnie Raitt – vocal

Freebo – Fender fretless bass

Bill Payne – piano

Earl Palmer – drums

John Hall – electric guitar, Mellotron

Let Me In – 3:33

(Y. Baker)

Bonnie Raitt – vocal

Taj Mahal – acoustic bass

John Hall – electric guitar

Bill Payne – piano

Earl Palmer – drums

Freebo – tuba, horns arranged and played by George Bohanan (trombone), Oscar Brashear (flugelhorn), Ernie Watts (soprano sax)

Everybody’s Crying Mercy – 3:25

(Mose Allison)

Bonnie Raitt – vocal

Taj Mahal – harp

Freebo – Fender fretless bass

Earl Palmer – drums

Bill Payne – piano

Bonnie Raitt, John Hall, Taj Mahal, Freebo, Bill Payne – back-up vocals

Cry Like a Rainstorm – 3:50

(Eric Kaz)

Bonnie Raitt – vocal

Taj Mahal – harp

Bill Payne – piano, organ

Freebo – Fender fretless bass

John Hall – acoustic guitar

Earl Palmer – drums

Sam Clayton – congas

Wah She Go Do* – 3:15

(McCarth Lewis)

Bonnie Raitt – vocal

Freebo – Fender fretless bass

Bill Payne – organ

Van Dyke Parks – inspiration, piano, and body english

John Hall – electric guitar

Jim Keltner – drums

Milt Holland – timbales, shakers, claves

Horns transcribed from Splish Splash version

Conducted by Kirby Johnson Horns played by Anthony Terran, Glenn Ferris, Joel Peskin, Martin Krystall, Robert Hardaway, Bud Brisbois

Bonnie Raitt, John Hall, Van Dyke Parks – back-up vocals

I Feel The Same – 4:39

(Chris Smither)

Bonnie Raitt – vocal

Lowell George – electric slide guitar

Bill Payne – electric and acoustic piano Freebo – Fender fretless bass Earl Palmer – drums Milt Holland – tablas

I Thought I Was a Child – 3:44

(Jackson Browne)

Bonnie Raitt – vocal, acoustic guitar

John Hall – electric guitar

Freebo – Fender fretless bass

Bill Payne – piano

Earl Palmer – drums

Sam Clayton – congas

Write Me a Few of Your Lines / Kokomo Blues – 3:36

(Fred McDowell)

Bonnie Raitt – vocal, bottleneck electric and acoustic guitars

Freebo – Fender Fretless bass

Jim Keltner – drums

John Hall – electric and acoustic rhythm guitars

Hand-clapping – Bonnie Raitt, John Hall, Carrol Farhat, Carl Huston, Nat Seligman

Guilty – 2:58

(Randy Newman)

Bonnie Raitt – vocal

Freebo – Fender fretless bass

Lowell George – electric slide guitar

Paul Barrere – electric rhythm guitar

Earl Palmer – drums

Horns arranged and conducted by Kirby Johnson Horns played by Anthony Terran, Glenn Ferris, Joel Peskin, Martin Krystall Bill Payne – piano

* “Wah She Go Do is from the album ‘Splish Splash’ by Calypso Rose, SR 7776, distributed and manufactured in the USA by Straker Calypso, Earl Harris; Jamaica, Long, Island, New York.

Produced by John Hall

Mixed at Village Recorders, West L.A.

Mixdown engineer – Rick Heenan

Tracks Recorded at Sunset Sound, Hollywood Engineered by John Haney* and Wayne Daily (*”Gave My Love a Candle, “Cry Like a Rainstorm,” “I Feel the Same” and Guilty) Overdubs recorded at Warner Bros. Recording Studios, N. Hollywood Engineered by Lanky Lindstrot Mastered at the Mastering Lab by Doug Sax and Arnie Acosta, June-July, 1973