Slipstream

Slipstream came out on Redwing Records on 10 April 2012. Raitt produced tracks 1, 2 and 5 to 10, and Joe Henry produced tracks 3, 4, 11 and 12. Ryan Freeland recorded and mixed it and Bob Ludwig mastered it. Among the players were Mike Finnigan, Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz, Jay Bellerose and Patrick Warren. Two singles followed, a cover of Gerry Rafferty's Right Down the Line and Used to Rule the World.

It reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200, her highest-charting album in 18 years, and topped the Top Blues Albums, Top Rock Albums and Top Independent Albums charts. It had sold 334,000 copies in the US by January 2016 and won the Grammy for Best Americana Album at the 2013 ceremony. Rolling Stone ranked it No. 22 among the best albums of 2012, and Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly called it "the singer's best album since 1975's underrated Home Plate".