Bonnie Lynn Raitt, born on November 8, 1949, in Burbank, California, is an American blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and ...

When Bonnie Raitt was a young girl, she was enthralled by the power and charisma of such blues and folk greats as John Lee ...

That album featured the slide guitar of Ry Cooder, but even he’d have to bow to Raitt’s playing as she tosses off an effortless swamp porch solo, knife blade sharp and smooth as molasses, from ...

Bonnie’s knock-out combination of velvet vocals and mean slide guitar played made her distinctive and bewitching. BB King called her the “best damn slide player working today”.

Bonnie Raitt is an American blues icon, one with a string of hugely successful albums, a shelf-full of Grammys and collaborations with everyone from John Lee Hooker and Buddy Guy to Jackson Browne ...

Bonnie Raitt's genre-blending repertoire – and by extension, her guitar playing – has captivated audiences for over five decades. The emotive interplay between her guitar and vocals is further ...

I then fell in love with slide guitar, which I first heard when I was about 14.” Raitt goes on to say that it was when she went to college that she began to develop her own signature style.

Artists "I switched to a Stratocaster - I got a really good deal in the middle of the night for $120 - and then in 1972, Lowell George showed me his MXR compressor pedal”: Bonnie Raitt on how she ...

Bonnie Raitt became the first female cover star for Guitar Player magazine with this interview in 1977 by our then Assistant Editor Patricia Brody. Raitt was on her sixth album by this point, and ...

Bonnie Raitt (seen here performing in Tucson) was recently awarded a Kennedy Center honor. She dazzled a capacity crowd at the Winspear Opera House on March 23, 2025.

“That feel is something you can’t teach": Bonnie Raitt on how she developed her slide guitar style Yungblud reveals his secret to making acoustics sound massive – and hints at future signature model ...

Terry invited Bonnie Raitt to bring and play some of the blues recordings that most influenced her. Before we hear them, let's listen to a song from her first album, which was released in 1971.