Raitt: The first two nights of doing warm-up gigs for this tour in California and Nevada, I sang (Prine’s) “Angel From Montgomery” for the first time for a live audience since his passing, and it was ...

Bonnie Raitt is mourning the death of her close friend and collaborator, John Prine. The country-folk singer and songwriter, who was behind classics such as “Angel from Montgomery,” died on April 7 ...

Last month, at the Billboard Women In Music gala in Inglewood, Calif., Bonnie Raitt dedicated a quiet, dignified performance of John Prine’s Angel From Montgomery to the women of Ukraine.

Angel From Montgomery: Raitt had a signature hit with the John Prine classic of longing and desperation in 1974, and has changed the arrangement often since then.

She reminisced about the late John Prine, a longtime friend and collaborator who died of complications from COVID-19 in 2020, before launching into Angel From Montgomery.

Prine may have never had a big chart-topping hit — the closest he's come might be Bonnie Raitt's cover of Angel of Montgomery — but this former mailman and army vet quietly built up a loyal ...

I last saw Bonnie Raitt 19 years ago in Vancouver. I remember it well. Her version of “Angel from Montgomery” was so moving it brought tears to my eyes.

Bonnie Raitt is mourning the death of her close friend and collaborator, John Prine. The country-folk singer and songwriter, who was behind classics such as “Angel from Montgomery,” died on ...