The Glow (Bonnie Raitt album)

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| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web |title=The Glow Review by Jason Elias |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-glow-mw0000199636 |website=AllMusic |access-date=2 January 2024}}

|rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2011 |publisher=Omnibus Press}}

| rev4 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev4Score = B−{{cite magazine |last1=Gordon |first1=Robert |title=Bonnie Raitt on the record |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=August 23, 1991 |url=https://ew.com/article/1991/08/23/bonnie-raitt-record/}}

|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev2Score = B+{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: R|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=R&bk=70|access-date=March 10, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}

|rev5 = MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide

|rev5score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1996 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=553}}

|rev6 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev6score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=575}}

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Rolling Stone wrote that Asher "doesn’t overproduce in the usual sense by filling tracks with unnecessary sweetening, but rather by turning out gleamingly spare, 'official' Los Angeles rock that’s as spiritually hollow as it is technically immaculate."{{cite magazine |last1=Holden |first1=Stephen |title=The Glow |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=November 29, 1979 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/the-glow-245948/}} The Globe and Mail noted that, "as always, she could use a little shake-up in her sound and in the now typecast way she approaches each song."{{cite news |last1=McGrath |first1=Paul |title=The Glow Bonnie Raitt |work=The Globe and Mail |date=6 Oct 1979 |page=F8}} The New York Times concluded that the album "includes the finest vocal performances of her career."{{cite news |last1=Palmer |first1=Robert |title=The Pop Life |work=The New York Times |date=21 Sep 1979 |page=C12}}

Side one

1. "I Thank You" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) – 2:51
2. "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) – 4:00
3. "Standin' by the Same Old Love" (Raitt) – 4:10
4. "Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate" (Jackson Browne) – 3:25
5. "The Glow" (Veyler Hildebrand) – 4:11

Side two

1. "Bye Bye Baby" (Mary Wells) – 3:17
2. "The Boy Can't Help It" (Bobby Troup) – 3:39
3. "(I Could Have Been Your) Best Old Friend" (Andy McMahon, Tracy Nelson) – 2:52
4. "You're Gonna Get What's Coming" (Robert Palmer) – 3:32
5. "(Goin') Wild for You Baby" (David Batteau, Tom Snow) – 5:25

• As listed in liner notes:
• Bonnie Raitt – lead vocals, electric slide guitar (3, 8), National steel guitar (7)
• Danny Kortchmar – electric guitar (1–4, 6, 7, 9), backing vocals (7)
• Waddy Wachtel – electric guitar (1, 3, 4, 6–10), harmony vocals (3), backing vocals (7)
• Bill Payne – acoustic piano (1–4), electric piano (8, 10), Oberheim synthesizer (9, 10)
• Don Grolnick – acoustic piano (5)
• Bob Glaub – bass (1–4, 6, 7, 9, 10)
• Bob Magnusson – bass (5)
• Freebo – bass (8)
• Rick Marotta – drums (1–4, 6–10), cowbell (1), percussion (6, 7, 8)
• John Guerin – drums (5)
• Larry Williams – saxophone (2)
• Trevor Lawrence – saxophone (2)
• David Sanborn – alto saxophone solo (2)
• Steve Madaio – trumpet (2)
• Paul Butterfield – harmonica (6)
• Rosemary Butler – backing vocals (1, 9)
• Kenny Edwards – backing vocals (1, 4, 9)
• Maxayn Lewis – backing vocals (1, 9)
• JD Souther – backing vocals (1, 9)
• Craig Fuller – backing vocals (4)
• Peter Asher – backing vocals (7)

• Producer – Peter Asher
• Recorded and Mixed by Val Garay
• Assistant Engineers – Niko Bolas and George Ybarra
• Recorded and Mixed at The Sound Factory (Hollywood, CA).
• Mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab (Los Angeles).
• Art Direction and Design – John Kosh
• Cover Photo – David Alexander
• Sleeve Photos – Jim Shea

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