• Weather
• Transportation/Traffic
• Consumer
• Education
• Environment
• Politics
• Election '08
• Real Estate
• Webtowns/Neighborhoods
• Under the Needle
• Obituaries
• Special Reports
• Corrections

• Election '08
• U.S.
• Washington, D.C.
• Africa
• Asia
• Australia
• Canada
• Europe
• Latin America
• Middle East

• Mariners/MLB
• Seahawks/NFL
• Sonics/NBA
• Storm/WNBA
• Sounders FC/Soccer
• College Football
• College Basketball
• High Schools
• Snow Sports
• Other Sports
• Art Thiel
• Jim Moore

• Boeing
• Microsoft
• VC Notebook
• Bill Virgin
• Real Estate
• Wire
• Tech Wire
• Personal Finance
• Sci-Tech
• Layoff Tracker

• Event Calendar
• Movies - Showtimes
• TV & Radio - Listings
• Restaurants/Dining
• Music
• Local Bands
• Books
• Video Games
• Theater/Fine Arts
• People
• A&E Wire
• Going Out
• Staying In

• Food
• Seattle@Home
• NW Gardens
• Getaways/Outdoors
• Snow Sports
• Health & Fitness
• Fashion
• Parenting
• MomSeattle
• DadSeattle
• Advice Columnists
• Horoscope
• Wheels

• Comics & Games
• Crossword

• Photos
• MySeattlePix
• Multimedia
• AP Video
• Buy Photos

• Editorials
• Letters
• David Horsey
• Forums
• Soundoffs
• Joel Connelly
• Robert Jamieson
• D. Parvaz
• Mary Swift

• Staff Blogs
• Reader Blogs
• Blog for us

• Home Delivery
• Mobile
• e-Edition
• E-mail Newsletters
• RSS Feeds
• P-I Reader
• Twitter

• Online ads
• Online text ads
• Newspaper ads
• Classified ads

• Classifieds
• Shopping
• Pets
• Personals
• Place an ad

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

This Week's Hot CD: Bonnie Raitt's 'Souls Alike'

Souls Alike (Capitol)

Though recorded before the New Orleans tragedy rose like a murky and polluted reflection of America's swamped political and social systems, "Souls Alike" is a melancholy and hopeful tribute to that musical mecca.

The CD also captures Raitt's roots appeal to pop audiences. The songs' lyrics are dressed in bittersweet and unrequited romances, but, like much of Raitt's music, they reveal universal realities.

"I Will Not Be Broken" is a pop declaration that the human spirit can not be quelled, "God Was in the Water" is a funky search for spiritual release, and "Trinkets" tells of how a child's small experiences, like listening to a Louis Armstrong record, converge to make a cosmos. Most of mankind would like to sing the chorus to the children of New Orleans, "Dance little children now. The whole round world is your neighborhood." (Roberta Penn)

GRADE: A

Share your own review.

Be the first to post a comment!

Add P-I Music headlines to
My web site My Yahoo! Google More options