Genre-spanning singer, guitarist, and songwriter Bonnie Raitt has helmed a formidable rock, folk, and blues career. Not bad for someone who started noodling on a $25 guitar from Sears at the ...

“Bonnie epitomized and personified what I saw for myself,” says Sheryl Crow, who credits Raitt as “the template for showing me that a woman can front a band playing the guitar.

“That feel is something you can’t teach - it’s something where I just listened and listened,” Raitt responded. “I taught myself guitar when I was nine, looking at the fingers of the ...

Kennedy Center Honors Again and again, Bonnie Raitt did it her way. Her way keeps on working. Hanging out with the sublime singer who makes her guitar sound “the way bacon smells” — and ...

Singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt has been taking questions from fans and discussing (among other things) her guitar playing, the young artists she admires and the enduring success of one of her biggest ...

Bonnie Raitt on why pushing beyond the blues was key to her success – that, and making her guitar “sound like bacon smells” Janelle Borg Wed, December 4, 2024 at 5:38 PM UTC ...