| Souls Alike | ||||
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| Released | September 13, 2005 | |||
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| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 46:36 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (72/100) [1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| Philadelphia Daily News | (A-)[3] |
| Chicago Tribune | (mixed) [4] |
| Morning Call | [5] |
| musicOMH | (favourable)[6] |
| Paste | (favourable)[7] |
| Philadelphia Inquirer | [8] |
| Rolling Stone |  [9] |
| Associated Press | [10] |
| The Mercury News | [11] |
| USA Today | [12] |
Souls Alike is the fifteenth studio album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 2005 on Capitol Records. The album peaked at No. 19 on the US Billboard 200.[13][14]
Souls Alike received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72 based on 6 reviews, which indicates "generally favourable reviews".[1]
Edna Gunderson of USA Today wrote "Full of poignant ballads and rootsy romps, Souls draws on Raitt's defiance, grace and earthy authenticity, allowing her to stretch stylistically without crowding the signature attractions of her brandied vocals and stinging slide guitar."[12] Brad Kava of the Mercury News proclaimed, "There are some touches of world music, but no real surprises. What you have is an album that is rock solid all the way through and continues her run as an uncompromising classic artist in the vein of Bob Dylan and Tom Petty."[11]
"I Will Not Be Broken" peaked at No. 27 on the US Billboard' Adult Contemporary chart. This tune was also Grammy nominated in the category of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.[15][16]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "I Will Not Be Broken" | Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Tommy Sims | 3:41 |
| 2. | "God Was in the Water" | Randall Bramblett, Davis Causey | 5:17 |
| 3. | "Love on One Condition" | Jon Cleary | 3:43 |
| 4. | "So Close" | Tony Arata, George Marinelli, Pete Wasner | 3:22 |
| 5. | "Trinkets" | Emory Joseph | 5:02 |
| 6. | "Crooked Crown" | David Batteau, Maia Sharp | 3:49 |
| 7. | "Unnecessarily Mercenary" | Jon Cleary | 3:51 |
| 8. | "I Don't Want Anything to Change" | Stephanie Chapman, Liz Rose, Maia Sharp | 4:29 |
| 9. | "Deep Water" | John Capek, Marc Jordan | 3:58 |
| 10. | "Two Lights in the Nighttime" | Lee Clayton, Pat McLaughlin | 4:22 |
| 11. | "The Bed I Made" | David Batteau, Maia Sharp | 4:59 |
| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard 200[14] | 19 |
