If you walked into a bar in the US, say in one of the southern states, and Bonnie Raitt and her band were playing, you’d have ...

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Bonnie Raitt’s concert at the Brighton Dome on June 17 was a confident, classy, effortless reminder of why she has endured ...

Take Mabel John’s 1966 classic Your Good Thing (Is About To End). Raitt, brimming over with pleading soul, stretches out vowels, holds notes until her vibrato is on the verge of cracking, and when ...

“When Bonnie sings, she commands this truth. She demands it of herself and of the song and the music,” says Jackson Browne, who toured with Raitt during the early 1970s, two bands sardined ...

But then Bonnie Raitt did name her publishing company Open Secret Music. Do the lessons come from her own life? Raitt is nothing if not direct, never coy; emotionally honest, without pretense as ...

We’ll say it again for good measure: Bonnie Raitt’s heart and voice are so intertwined with blues, no matter what genre she takes on. She brought that bluesy energy to country music and ...

Midway through a recent Bonnie Raitt concert ... in how wide your palette is to work from,” he says. While Raitt chooses songs that interest herself and her band, she never forgets her audience ...