Bonnie Raitt
speaker
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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Oh, of course they would be good friends of yours. Aren't they the greatest? The greatest. Oh, and Sheila. I know. Cause I mean, I knew Sheila more because she booked me for David Letterman.
Yes, we did. I remember I was going, God, she just built like a rocket ship. I just remember loving you. Me? Man, I am going to work out more. No, stop it. I was so inspired. I remember being thrilled that we were on at the same time.
I can see it. Oh, sweet. Oh, my gosh. Isn't that fun? Are we foxes or what? We are stone cold fucking foxes. I love it. And I was so happy that you were, you know, friends with Jane. Fonda, yes. Yeah. You're political. And I just, I love who you are in the world, too. So, you know, we're going to go on and on like this.
People are going to just shake their head and go, you guys just make a date and sleep together. Yeah.
Did they drive you crazy?
No, no, I love... I loved it, but I have two brothers. I'm not a girly girl anyway, so it was really fun. I was kind of a tomboy. I never identified with hair and makeup. I just wasn't into shopping. I didn't want to be a wife and mother. From the get-go? Yeah. Gidget was a big role model from when that book and movie came out. Yes.
When she was not accepted in a man's world of surfing and then she got really good at it. Yes. You're the Gidget. Yeah. And then I've also said this on interviews, but I really loved Amanda Blake because she had red hair and she owned the saloon and she didn't have to get married, but they were way in love. And I just thought that was so cool because...
A lot of women, the mothers of my friends in L.A. when I was growing up, somehow in the middle of our teen years, a lot of them were getting dumped. You know, the husbands were marrying younger women. Uh-huh. You know, either the wives later, I realized, might have been premenopausal or when the kids, you know, my dad left my mom when I was 19 and found a younger woman that he was closer with.
I mean, I don't know what went on between them closed doors, but... Parenting teenagers can put a lot of stress on a relationship. Sure. And my dad was away a lot and, you know, my mom was... You know, it was difficult. And so I just got the message where I just don't want to have to depend on any guy.
You know, I'd just rather be way in love, but stay independent and be not the other woman like breaking up people's homes. Even before feminism, I didn't want to have that model of being married and living in the suburbs and having kids.
No, didn't. I was just naturally a tough girl, you know, and I adopted that blues mama persona early on with my band Jump Ahead from teenage years to my first album. I couldn't stand the way I sang because it was so fruity and I wanted to sound like Etta James and it wasn't going to happen.
On the first album?
I hated it, hated, hated. But I loved doing it. I just didn't like listening to it. So I would adopt this kind of swagger and drink and smoke and, you know, talk. I mean, I listened to some bootleg live shows of my early folk days where I was just like, you know, I just, who was I? I adopted a persona as if I was somebody that did own a saloon.
I have great affection and compassion and a lot of great memories of who she was back then. I'm proud of the music that I made, but do I like listening to my voice? Not really. I mean, maybe as I got older, I could like it more. Yeah. How about you? When you see yourself, do you... Cringe when you see early footage of yourself?
Yeah.
Yep, I have a lot of that, too. I know exactly what you mean. And here's the thing that I found out. Yes. How about when you think... You're making a cool looking face at the camera.
I just, I mean, it's really so embarrassing. I just had to just look at a whole bunch of shots where I could have sworn I was, or even live shots now. I'm editing, helping pick the promo pictures for the Austin City Limits show we cut. All these shots of me playing guitar, they just look hideous. I mean, I'm never, now I'm going to be self-conscious about how I play. Oh, no, you mustn't be.
I don't want to be. I just want to wear a COVID mask and just make whatever face I want.
Well, the guitar part's fine. I just have to make sure that I'm not making the face that I just saw in about 10 photos.
I mean, I think that happens naturally. Yeah, it happens. You get lower, you get more notes down below as you get older and older. It sounds great. Because I warm up more. Yeah. Oh, thank you.
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