Bonnie Raitt
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187 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Bonnie Raitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I have to just do a sidetrack and say, you hurt my feelings is so great.
It is so fantastic, as are all your performances. I just adore you. So don't get me started. Thank you so much. I'll bet you when you read that script, you said,
It's so profound. I relate to this so much that I almost wanted to go ask everybody in my life that is, have you been lying to me? It's very risky to do it with your romantic partner, though. No shit. I like to keep them kind of separate for that reason because I don't want to know. Yeah, I don't want to be asked what my opinion is of what they're doing or the other way around.
Because of this shock of hair on the side that goes down. And then I put a little white streak in the bird wing and the little logo. It's like the red wing with a little white streak. I love that. Which I've had since I was 24, by the way. It just showed up out of the blue. And I've had that white streak. And when I finally, at 31, when my red hair kind of faded a little bit. Yeah.
It was still just that one white streak, and I tried dyeing it when I dyed my whole head, and I just went, you know, I'm used to this thing being here. It felt weird. So people always ask me, why do you dye your hair white? I go, because it's the only real color that's been there all this time. I just never touched it. It's so chic. It's so unusual.
Get out of here. Fantastic. Swear to God. I've been told by someone that said, oh, it means you've been kissed by an angel.
Yes.
It was the hospice nurse that was there with my dad when he passed away in the Palisades. She said, I've always loved that white streak. You know it means you've been kissed by an angel. Oh, I love hospice workers. As she opens the window when my dad passed away and let his spirit out. I mean, whoa, I said, okay, I'm going to take, I'm taking that and I'm going to be kissed by an angel.
That's why I have the white street.
I mean, it wasn't at the exact moment. It just means that was the same person who was kind of connected to the other realms in a way that when you are blessed enough to be able to be with a loved one as they're getting ready to go, and those angels, those saints, those hospice nurses are there helping you get through it. She just said, does anyone mind if I open the window?
And then he passed away, and she said, I like to let the spirit out. Bonnie. It was so moving to me. Of course. It wasn't anything I would question because she was an incredibly empathetic, compassionate, wonderful nurse that helped not only my dad but the whole family get through that.
I don't think so.
Well, I'm just saying that the... I'm not a country music artist, but I was surprised with this amount of zillions of streams and appreciation of so many women artists in the country field that it turned out that for a couple of decades, they were mostly just playing guys. On the radio. And I couldn't understand what that gap was. You know, like we can't understand a wage gap.
Are you still, are you kidding? Right. Still there. Yeah. But no, I think, I mean, Joni Mitchell and so many great, Carole King, great singer-songwriters and artists have always been instrumentalists as well.
You don't think about gender. You're just writing. Well, when I sing Angel from Montgomery, some of my strongest songs have been written by men about women. Nobody's Girl is a beautiful song from Nick of Time, Larry John McNally. Oh my God, there's a whole slew of them that are so inside what women are feeling. There's a song of mine on Longing in Their Hearts called All at Once.
It was the first time I wrote in the third person about a woman that had a fight with her daughter. Mm-hmm. And our teenage daughter and, you know, and it was just like a short story. Yeah. And that was really that really felt good to write and sing from a woman's point of view. Right. So I sing from women's point of view. Women be wise, you know. Keep your mouth shut. Don't advertise your man.
Yeah. I love those lyrics. Oh, thank you. I think I've written a lot of really strong song lyrics.
I mean. Thank you. Thank you. I watched that go down on TV. A news team brought a crew for a woman to meet. The man who had her son's heart. And that just inspired me. I mean, I wrote a story about a woman who actually caused the death of her child because she was looking the other way. And she just was so ashamed and so horrified. She just disappeared.
And there was no way for her ever to have any redemption. She was just one of those people, that crazy lady down the street with the blinds closed. and that this guy who had her son's heart that she didn't even know was donated spent all this time to find her. But anyway, there are a lot more songs I sing from a woman's point of view. I should probably say I write from a woman's point of view.
I just don't think about it consciously.
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