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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Rhino / Wea
Salesrank: 5294
Released: March 5, 2002 |
| Our Price: $5.22 |
| Used Price: $4.08 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Give It Up Track Listing:
1. Give It Up or Let Me Go
2. Nothing Seems to Matter
3. I Know
4. If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody
5. Love Me Like a Man
6. Too Long at the Fair
7. Under the Falling Sky
8. You Got to Know How
9. You Told Me Baby
10. Love Has No Pride
Editorial Review:
Her classic sophomore album from 1972 that influenced generations of women in rock. Features 'Love Me Like A Man', 'Under The Sky Falling' & 'Love Has No Pride'. Rhino/Warner Bros. digitally remastered.
Description of Give It Up:
This 1972 collection set the bar it took years for Raitt to clear again. Moving easily between sensitive singer-songwriter and bawdy blues-mama roles, the blazing redhead proved she was a talent to watch on several fronts. Raitt demonstrated a keen instinct for finding suitable material, adopting Jackson Browne's "Under the Falling Sky" and Eric Kaz's "Love Has No Pride" as if she'd penned them herself. The honeyed vocals and slashing slide guitar heard on Give It Up identified Raitt instantly to anyone who encountered this album. Unfortunately, it would be nearly two decades before many did catch on to her appeal. --Steve Stolder
Give It Up Reviews:
A timeless work 
2009-11-14 - I've always said that the first John Prine album was his greatest hits collection and in that aspect this has been the one that Bonnie has tried to surpass or equal. With it's eclectic mix of sweet folk and raunchy boogie woogie it has entertained me for 37 years. Her supporting musicians are dead on song after song and you just get this feeling of everyone just sitting around and playing. Great stuff.
Bonnie Raitt's first stuff remastered, magnifico
2009-09-14 - If you like Bonnie Raitt, wait 'til you hear some of her best work (her first works), remastered. It's like the recording was made yesterday, native to CD. There's more soul, more depth, and more happiness in this album than most of her newer albums, which is great. Very few artists can have such a long career, and she is very deserving of the one that she has. This CD is great from start to finish, especially if you're a fan of music from the era, and Bonnie Raitt, in general. Nobody's doing it like she did, in today's music. This CD is a real gem, and all the better that it has been remastered.
Kicking a*s!
2008-12-23 - People, this album costs SEVEN DOLLARS. It is probably Bonnie's best album. Take advantage of this opportunity.
It was the summer of 1973, and I was 21. I had never heard of Bonnie Raitt. I had been enveloped in Motown and Aretha Franklin (which is cool) for years. A girl I was working with on an archaelogical dig said "Get this record." I took her word for it and will always be indebted to her. I got this and the first one, Bonnie Raitt. I was instantly hooked, and it's not exaggerating to say that this changed my life. This changed my life. Both albums are terrifically underproduced, recorded live or next to it, real, amazing. I mean, one guy recorded naked. There was a dog. Her band and the music are prime.
Not only did this album teach me who Bonnie Raitt was, it started introducing me to those key blues folks who played with Bonnie and whom Bonnie played and toured with (including the wonderful Sippie Wallace, whom I was so lucky to see once with Bonnie), Jackson Browne, Chris Smither (I mean, PEOPLE), Joel Zoss (I instantly got his album), Barbara George, Eric Kaz and Libby Titus, some fine songwriters. I learned what bottleneck slide was, and what a virtuoso was.
Get it get it get it. Why this album costs $7 is beyond me, but SOMEONE'S missing the boat. You need to catch it.
The Best Bonnie
2007-12-07 - I have been a Bonnie Raitt fan for 35+ years. I have every album, cd and DVD. I've seen her in concert 10+ times. If you have to own only one of her albums this is it. Great, spontaneous music. Listen to "Give It Up" on a really good audio system. It is dense, lively. "Love Has No Pride" is a classic. The whole thing stands the test of time.
Bonnie Fan Since 70s
2007-05-04 - I can't even imagine my single life in the 70s & 80s without Bonnie and these songs, oh my gosh how I adore this woman. We used to always see her at Wolf Trap (in VA) along with John Prine, wow, I feel so lucky to have been there at the right time. There's no one more soulful, she can belt em out and also just KILL your heart with tenderness... she's just so so so so COOL, and I always have to sing along to her songs at the top of my lungs even as my teenagers run screaming from the room (not from Bonnie, from me)...this is such a dumb review, I just don't have words enough to describe Bonnie Raitt. I can tell you that at one of her concerts at Wolf Trap, probably early 80's, I broke my foot falling drunkenly down the stairs and stayed for the rest of the concert so I wouldn't miss any of the show. She's just one of a kind and a very generous musician, too, always giving the spotlight to other people. I love her. And so will you if by some horrifying chance, you've never heard her before. All of her albums are perfect, but this one may be my ultimate favorite.
