Bonnie Raitt's third studio album Takin' My Time was released in 1973. The album was more commercially successful than her past albums but only peaked at 87 on the Billboard Charts. It also received mostly positive reviews upon release. Unlike her past two works, the album includes no original tracks but it has a much more diverse set of styles from her usual folk and blues to jazz and calypso.
Raitt hardly struggles mastering the different genres and styles that the chosen cover songs require and she breezes through hardest one, the calypso/reggae "Wah She Go Do," with ease and comfort. The multitude of the genres keeps the album feeling fresh but it lacks an overarching theme or direction. It doesn't have the quiet meditation and reverence of her debut or the sharp femininity and confidence of Give It Up and, anyways, the best songs on Takin' My Time are the usual suspects--blues numbers and slow ballads. B
