And the “Fundamental” band is exceptionally fine, with Froom on keyboards, Steve Donnelly on rhythm guitar and a rhythm section of drummer Pete Thomas (of Elvis Costello’s Attractions) and bassist Joey Spampinato (of NRBQ).
The swampy sound of Raitt’s slide slipping over the strings of her Stratocaster is one of the sweetest musical signatures in popular music, and a major element in Raitt’s enduring appeal is that she’s always been a player in the band, a musician more than a personality.
On “Fundamental,” producers Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake collaborate with Raitt to make a record that exploits her quarter century as a working musician.
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The follow-up records she made with Was, “Luck of the Draw” and “Longing in Their Hearts,” ensured Raitt a successful career playing to summer sheds full of baby boomers (think James Taylor playing bottleneck blues), but they also started to feel bound by the polite, well-groomed sound defined by “Nick of Time.” When 1989’s “Nick of Time” won Raitt a mass audience after years of being a critical do-gooder favorite and commercial disappointment, it was a victory shared by everybody happy to see a worthy talent finally coming out on top. “Fundamental” returns to that aesthetic strategy, and it’s a blast of fresh air after the accomplished but increasingly hermetic records Raitt had been making with producer Don Was. It also reflects the difference between music made among friends living together in the country and the kind squeezed out trying to beat city traffic and studio clocks.” “We recorded live on four tracks because we wanted a more spontaneous and natural feeling in the music,” Raitt wrote in the liner notes to that album, “a feeling often sacrificed when the musicians know they can overdub their part on a separate track until it’s perfect. What strikes you first about the new Bonnie Raitt album is the unmistakable sound of a band rocking out in real time, and that’s why “Fundamental” is reminding everybody of the singer’s 1971 self-titled debut.
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