1. Give It Up Or Let Me Go ..... 4:28
(Bonnie Raitt) Kokomo Music -ASCAP
2. Nothing Seems To Matter ..... 4:04
(Bonnie Raitt) Kokomo Music -ASCAP
3. I Know ..... 3:40
(Barbara George) At Last Pub. Co - BMI
4. If You Got To Make A Fool Of Somebody ..... 2:54
(Rudy Clarke) Good Songs, Inc. -BMI
5. Love Me Like A Man ..... 3:10
(Chris Smither, Lyrics adapted by Bonnie Raitt) Poppy Music/Homoculus Music -ASCAP
6 Too Long At The Fair..... 2:54
(Joel Zoss) Catalan Pub. Co., Inc. -BMI
7 Under The Falling Sky .....3:38
(Jackson Browne) Benchmark Music-ASCAP
8 You Got To Know How .....3:32
(Sippie Wallace, add. lyrics by Jack Viertel) Olwen Music -BMI
9 You Told Me Baby.....4:01
(Bonnie Raitt) Kokomo Music -ASCAP
l0 Love Has No Pride.....3:43
(Eric Kaz -Libby Titus) Glasco Music Co. - ASCAP

PRODUCED BY MICHAEL CUSCUNA
Recording Engineer: Kendall "Do the Dog" Pacios
Re-mix engineers: Kendall Pacios and Nick Jameson
Recorded June, 1972, at Bearsville Recording Studios,
Bearsville, New York
CD Remastered by Lee Herschberg
CDD Pre-Mastering by The Record Group

Special thanks to Nick, Eric, Susan, Claudia, Danny
Jack, Kendall, Allen, Michael Dobo, Peter Johnson,
Maria Muldaur, Johanna Hall, Paul Siebel, Flo, Roebuck,
Prune, and Cain. And of course, bless you Mr. Boskoff.

This album is dedicated to the people of North Vietnam
and the loving memory of a dear friend, Fred Mc Dowell.

This album was made primarily with musicians from the Woodstock area. Freebo travels regularly with Bonnie and appeared on her first album. On several tracks, he is reunited with Mark Jordan and T.J. Tindall. Together with drummer Rip Stock, they compirsed Philadelphia's Edison Electric Band and made one album for Atlantic. Mark, who alks appears on Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey album, is currently Dave Mason's pianist, T.J. is still based in Philadelphia and has worked with the Chambers Brothers, Gamble and Huff Productions and is now with the Van Eaton brothers,

Like Bonnie and Freebo, Lou Terriciano (a fine singer as well as pianist) and John Payne are based in Cambridge. John was the reed man on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album and presently works with Cambridge singer-songwriter Peter Johnson and his brother Hunter Payne.

The remaining musicians are based in Woodstock. John Hall and Wells Kelly are two-thirds of a new band called Orleans. John has worked with Taj Mahal, written for janis Joplin and done a great deal of studio work. Wells appears on most of John Simon's album and has travelled and recorded with many bands.

Marty Grebb, Terry Eaton and Kal David are all members of the Fabulous Rhinestones and appear courtesy of Just Sunshine Records. Paulk Butterfield appears courtesy of Bearsville Records. Amos Garett, Chris Parker and Merl Saunders are members of Paul's new band. Merl, a respected San Francisco jazzman, appears courtesy of fantasy records. Peter Eckland is in another Bearsville band, Hungry Chuck.

Eric Kaz, who is currently recording his own album for Atlantic, is a fine singer-songwriter and has been travelling with Happy and Artie Traum. The two warner Bros. albums by Tracey Nelson and Mother Earth feature six of his songs. Dave Holland is a respected British bassist, who spent most of the late 60s playing with Miled\s Davis. He is currently recording with John Hartford and rehearsing with Buzzy Feiten.

- MICHAEL CUSCUNA




Other album notes:

With a flair for blues, R&B, pop and folk stylings, Bonnie Raitt is one of the most versatile and accomplished vocalists in comtemporary music. Her 1972 release, Give It Up, is a sparkling example of her distinctive musical gift. Produced by Michael Cuscuna, Give It Up features compositions by sucht top-notch songwriters as Jackson Browne and Eric Kaz, as well as original material penned by Raitt.

The daughter of Broadway singer John Raitt, star of Pajama Game and Carousel, BOnnie Raitt began playing guitar at 12 and was almost immediately attracted to such blues artists as Sippie Wallace, Howlin' Wolf and Mississippi Fred McDowell. In 1967 she moved from Los Angeles to the Boston area where she quickly garnered a loyal following in local blues clubs and coffee houses. Longtime blues aficionado Dick Waterman became her manager and she soon began sharing the stage with many of the blues artists who had influenced her.

Raitt's self-titled album was released in 1971 and immediately earned her critical raves and a large following among discerning music fans. Her impeccable chosen repertoire included many obscure blues classics and was augmented by bottleneck guitar playing that compared favorably with the masters of the style.

Bonnie Raitt was followed in the summer of 1972 by Give It Up. The LP mixes Raitt's blues roots (heard on songs such as Sippie Wallace's "you Got To Know How") with memorable renditions of contemporary material, including Jackson Browne's "Under The Falling Sky" and Eric Kaz's "Love Has No Pride." Give It Up also features three Raitt originals: "Give It UP Or Let Me Go,: :Nothing Seems To Matter" and "You Told Me Baby." Raitt also adapted lyrics to Chris Smither's memorable "Love Me Like A Man."