Nine Lives

1. 01No Way to Treat a Lady3:52
2. 02Runnin' Back to Me4:14
3. 03Who But a Fool (Thief Into Paradise)4:26
4. 04Crime of Passion4:21
5. 05All Day, All Night4:04
6. 06Stand Up to the Night4:43

"Nine Lives" is the ninth album by Bonnie Raitt, released on the Warner Bros label in 1986. "In 1983 there was a corporate sweep at Warner's, coming from upstairs, and they needed to trim the fat," Raitt recalled in 1990. "I just had completed an album called Tongue & Groove, which was produced by Rob Fraboni, who had also done Green Light. And I don't think they maliciously said, 'Let's let her finish her album and get the tour all lined up and print the covers and hire the people to do the video and then drop her.' You know, ha, ha, ha. But that's what they did. It was literally the day after I had finished mastering it. I had already finished the album once, and [Warner's claimed] the Jerry Williams tune would be more commercial if it didn't have quite as reggae a beat. Or something like that. So I went in and redid it. I thought if I cooperated a little more, maybe they'd promote the album more. But instead they dropped me and pulled the rug out from under my tour. I thought the way they did it was real crummy. They sent a letter. I think I suffered from not having a relationship with the A&R department there, because I had an independent production deal..." The material for …