Take Mabel John’s 1966 classic Your Good Thing (Is About To End). Raitt, brimming over with pleading soul, stretches out ...

“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 ...

my early idol, or Childe-type ballads, while the other suddenly had to learn whatever the hell it was Mississippi John Hurt was doing on 'Candy Man'." Being Bonnie Raitt, she learned 'Candy Man'.

First, blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Bonnie Raitt spoke with Terry Gross in 1996 about her early years, finding her blues sound. And Francis Ford Coppola told us in 2016 the story of ...

An affinity for The Gift of the Magi and early 20th ... on the guitar.” Bonnie Raitt by Shervin Lainez On Just Like That… Raitt revisits songs she’s meant to cover for years like ...

I worked at it pretty hard there in the early days. GROSS ... recordings that have really influenced her over the years. And Bonnie Raitt, the next album, the next recording that you brought ...

Is this the same Bonnie Raitt who is known as a political radical as well as a singer? “I’m actually starting to take on some projects that I wouldn’t have considered a few years ago ...

Midway through a recent Bonnie Raitt concert, a woman shouted “Play ‘Angel From Montgomery.’” The song, a John Prine cover, was an album track for Raitt 50 years ago that became what she ...