Bonnie Raitt

Kind of a funny anecdote for a young college student hanging out with these blues guys because it was kind of my job to help road manage, and I had to be sure not to let somebody just pass a pint bottle to somebody that I knew was just going to get totally toasted, and he didn't play until four hours from now.

Kind of a funny anecdote for a young college student hanging out with these blues guys because it was kind of my job to help road manage, and I had to be sure not to let somebody just pass a pint bottle to somebody that I knew was just going to get totally toasted, and he didn't play until four hours from now.

Kind of a funny anecdote for a young college student hanging out with these blues guys because it was kind of my job to help road manage, and I had to be sure not to let somebody just pass a pint bottle to somebody that I knew was just going to get totally toasted, and he didn't play until four hours from now.

You're getting old guys that have been farmers and Pullman Porters for 25 years, and suddenly everybody wants to give them anything they want in whatever quantity. And it did a lot of them in. You have to be really careful. Otherwise, it's not helping anybody to give somebody who has a propensity to alcoholism too much alcohol. And we've all seen that in every lifestyle in rock and roll.

You're getting old guys that have been farmers and Pullman Porters for 25 years, and suddenly everybody wants to give them anything they want in whatever quantity. And it did a lot of them in. You have to be really careful. Otherwise, it's not helping anybody to give somebody who has a propensity to alcoholism too much alcohol. And we've all seen that in every lifestyle in rock and roll.

You're getting old guys that have been farmers and Pullman Porters for 25 years, and suddenly everybody wants to give them anything they want in whatever quantity. And it did a lot of them in. You have to be really careful. Otherwise, it's not helping anybody to give somebody who has a propensity to alcoholism too much alcohol. And we've all seen that in every lifestyle in rock and roll.

Well, this particular album, which has now been re-released on Alligator Records, it's from an album called, I think it's Sippy Sings the Blues, if they left the name the same. And I picked it up when I was 18. I spent the summer my freshman year in on a college charter flight and traveled around Europe with a couple of girlfriends.

Well, this particular album, which has now been re-released on Alligator Records, it's from an album called, I think it's Sippy Sings the Blues, if they left the name the same. And I picked it up when I was 18. I spent the summer my freshman year in on a college charter flight and traveled around Europe with a couple of girlfriends.

Well, this particular album, which has now been re-released on Alligator Records, it's from an album called, I think it's Sippy Sings the Blues, if they left the name the same. And I picked it up when I was 18. I spent the summer my freshman year in on a college charter flight and traveled around Europe with a couple of girlfriends.

Went into the famous Dobell's record store in London and found this incredible record. picture of this woman in these rhinestone cat glasses, and it said Sippy Wallace, and I recognized the name from my old classic blues collection records, you know, compilations, and I'd always really liked Sippy's music because she really didn't take any...

Went into the famous Dobell's record store in London and found this incredible record. picture of this woman in these rhinestone cat glasses, and it said Sippy Wallace, and I recognized the name from my old classic blues collection records, you know, compilations, and I'd always really liked Sippy's music because she really didn't take any...

Went into the famous Dobell's record store in London and found this incredible record. picture of this woman in these rhinestone cat glasses, and it said Sippy Wallace, and I recognized the name from my old classic blues collection records, you know, compilations, and I'd always really liked Sippy's music because she really didn't take any...

She didn't cut anybody any slack in terms of men at the time. She wasn't a victim. She was, you know, you can make me do what you want to do, but you've got to know how. So I had bought the record, fell in love with her, had no idea she was still alive. And at that point, the record was only two or three years old, I think.

She didn't cut anybody any slack in terms of men at the time. She wasn't a victim. She was, you know, you can make me do what you want to do, but you've got to know how. So I had bought the record, fell in love with her, had no idea she was still alive. And at that point, the record was only two or three years old, I think.

She didn't cut anybody any slack in terms of men at the time. She wasn't a victim. She was, you know, you can make me do what you want to do, but you've got to know how. So I had bought the record, fell in love with her, had no idea she was still alive. And at that point, the record was only two or three years old, I think.

And I'd recorded a couple of her songs, three actually, over my first two albums. And when I was invited to come to the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival in 1972 to perform, I, at that point, had found out that that's where she was living in Detroit and invited her to come out on stage.

And I'd recorded a couple of her songs, three actually, over my first two albums. And when I was invited to come to the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival in 1972 to perform, I, at that point, had found out that that's where she was living in Detroit and invited her to come out on stage.

And I'd recorded a couple of her songs, three actually, over my first two albums. And when I was invited to come to the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival in 1972 to perform, I, at that point, had found out that that's where she was living in Detroit and invited her to come out on stage.

She said she would only do gospel because she was recovering from a stroke and had given up the blues and was playing in the church. And... So I started playing Women Be Wise in the little trailer backstage, and she started kind of sashing back and forth, and she said, well, maybe I'll just do one blues.

She said she would only do gospel because she was recovering from a stroke and had given up the blues and was playing in the church. And... So I started playing Women Be Wise in the little trailer backstage, and she started kind of sashing back and forth, and she said, well, maybe I'll just do one blues.