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Slipstream (Bonnie Raitt album)

Slipstream
Bonnie Raitt -Slipstream.jpg
Studio album by Bonnie Raitt
Released April 10, 2012
Recorded 2010-2011 at Ocean Way Recording and The Garfield House
Genre Rock, blues rock, americana
Length 57:49
Label Redwing Records
Producer Bonnie Raitt, Joe Henry
Bonnie Raitt chronology
Souls Alike
(2005)
Slipstream
(2012)
Dig in Deep
(2016)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 74/100
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars
American Songwriter 4/5 stars
Blurt 7/10 stars
The Boston Globe (positive)
Chicago Tribune 3/4 stars
Entertainment Weekly A−
Paste (8.5/10)
Q 3/5 stars
Robert Christgau (2-star Honorable Mention)
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars

Slipstream is the sixteenth studio album by Bonnie Raitt, released in April 2012.American Songwriter Magazine praised it as "her best album in years and one of the best of her 40-year career."

Two singles were released from the album, Gerry Rafferty's "Right Down the Line", and "Used to Rule the World", both of which charted on the Billboard Triple A chart. The album also spawned a highly successful concert tour. The Slipstream Tour was the 82nd best-selling American tour of 2012 earning 11.3 million dollars and selling 201,313 tickets.

The album was listed at No. 22 on Rolling Stone's list of the top 50 albums of 2012, saying "As young stars like Adele and Katy Perry cover her songs, Raitt continues what she’s been doing, more or less, for 40-plus years."

The album won for the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards.

Debuting at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, Slipstream became Raitt's highest-charting album in 18 years. It also debuted at No. 1 on both the Rock Albums and Blues Albums charts. selling around 63,000 copies. The album has sold 334,000 album in the US as of January 2016.

Slipstream became the 106th best-selling album and 9th best-selling independent album in the United States in 2012.Slipstream was also the best-selling Blues album of 2012, and Bonnie Raitt was the best-selling Blues artist of 2012.


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