Nick of Time

Arguably, Graceland also incentivized record labels to invest in other middle-aged artists who were reaching new creative peaks, whether it was the B-52s, whose members were all at or just past 40 when they hit it big in 1989 with hits like Love Shack.

Bonnie Raitt, who, like Paul Simon, in her 40s, scored an unexpected victory at the 1990 Grammys with her album Nick of Time that rebooted her career.

Something to talk about.

Something to talk about.

A song about aging, uncertainty, and the realization that happiness sometimes arrives just when you think you've missed your chance.

As they say, in the nick of time.

Bonnie Raitt's Nick of Time is the title track to her 1989 album, and a very fine album at that.

And from four years before, we heard Bonnie's classic cover and duet with John Prine of Angel from Montgomery.

The song would become an important part of Bonnie's own repertoire, and hearing the two of them together is a particular pleasure.

We've got Full Moon Fever by Tom Petty.

Nick of Time by Bonnie Raitt.

The End of the Innocents by Don Henley.

The Raw and the Cooked by Fine Young Cannibals.

I feel like the Grammys went nuts over that.

I'm going to say that the Grammy goes to In the End of Innocence by Don Henley.

All right, and the winner is Nick of Time by Bonnie Raitt.

Not both of us are

The album was produced by Don was he was the producer du jour of that time.

Apparently he had won a Grammy for Album of the Year for Bonnie Raitt's Nick of Time the year prior in 94.

He had produced Across the Borderline by Willie Nelson.

Waylon's 1994 release Way More Blues Part Two Garth Brooks alter ego Chris Gaines, which is a legendary release that we will address on five and nine that is yes yes giant

N- by the way, Petty wins nothing.

Um, Nick of Time, the Bonnie Raitt album, wins Best Album of the Year, but The Heartbreakers are all over that.

Uh, uh, Petty rather, and, and Campbell and Lynch, um, and then the, you know, The Wilbury's and the Orbison stuff.

So Petty's all over the Grammys that year as a nominee.

I f- I feel like this is, like, the Bonnie Raitt story.

We talked about this when we talked about Nick of Time versus Luck of the Draw, Luck of the Draw being the more successful album, but Nick of the Time was the...

Nick of Time was Bonnie Raitt struggling for the, through years of just kinda making it.

Dude, I hate when there's an artist on here twice.

Well, wait till we get to Led Zeppelin-

Right? Right? Like, I, like, I'm so curious because this, this is so interesting.

You, you, we...

I'm guessing only because if this album, or, or just, well, maybe I'm wrong, right? So Bonnie Raitt had, um, Nick of Time.

blue-Bonnie Raitt, "Blue For No Reason," from her 1998 album Fundamental.

Raitt also recorded John Hiatt's Lover's Will for that album, and nearly a decade earlier, she covered this song, also written by Hiatt, for her album Nick of Time.

This is his original with Ry Cooder on guitar, Nick Lowe on bass, and Jim Keltner on drums.

Here's Thing Called Love.