Luck of the Draw by Bonnie Raitt

Luck of the Draw, Bonnie Raitt's eleventh album, came out on Capitol in 1991, and it's the sound of an artist proving her comeback was no accident. After the Grammy success of Nick of Time, she took herself off on a songwriting retreat in Northern California, sober and determined to write, and came back with songs of her own. Don Was produced, keeping the blues-rock grooves loose, warm and unhurried.

"Something to Talk About" is all sly, strutting fun, but the heart of the record is "I Can't Make You Love Me", a hushed, devastating ballad with Bruce Hornsby on piano. It outsold Nick of Time, reaching seven million copies in America by 2010, kept her on the road for 180 shows between 1991 and 1993, and remains her biggest seller. She dedicated it to Stevie Ray Vaughan, who had died in 1990 and had pushed her to stop drinking.

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