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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And I admire you so much for you to like me is just thrilling. So it's right. It's me. It's mutual.
Thank you. Thank you.
partners that are more your peers than someone that's just feeding what you need and companionship and being okay. You know, see if you can make more parity in the decision. And that's hard to do when you travel all the time. But that's good advice. You know, but I wish I had I've had relationships with people that were really even on many, many levels, and those were the ones that had a shot.
And when I aimed lower and just sort of like filled up on fast food for that desire, and I was holding out for the higher one later, well, next thing you know, I would have liked to have known that sooner. Yeah. Okay. That's really good advice.
Oh, peace, sanity, coming together, putting aside our differences and an end to this
a redirect of the road we're on onto one that's more solid and more loving and more compassionate and more just and may we be at peace may i be at peace may i find a way to be effective and i'm looking forward to making a difference if i can help make that happen that's the future i want to see well that's the perfect way to end this conversation
I am too. I'm going to go sing on a record by the man who co-wrote I Can't Make You Love Me and the wonderful Joe Henry that produced like eight songs I've put out on the last few albums. One of my favorite songwriters. And the two of them are collaborating on a record together. And I'm going to go finally get to pay back to Mike Reed by singing on his, he sings like an angel.
I mean, Scott, you know how Michael McDonald's voice is unearthly beautiful? Yes. Mike Reed, he's made several albums of his own. He's just so, but for a former Cincinnati Bengal football player to have come up with the music for I Can't Make You Love Me. And with Alan Shamblin to come up with that, Don't Patronize Me. Don't Patronize Me is extraordinary. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
So you're going to that now. And I'm going to take this lump in my throat that you've carefully honed for the last two hours, and I'm going to use that and sing on this beautiful song that they did together. Oh, I'm so happy. Oh, I'm so happy. I can't wait to hear it. Me too. I can't wait. And just think, now it doesn't exist. In a couple hours, it will always exist. All right. It's amazing.
All right. I can't wait to see you again and make a difference together and have a blast and laugh and hike and do all that stuff. Okay. We are one. We are one. Bonnie Raitt, the most wonderful, the most authentic. Julia, oh, thank you for everything. Thank you, Julia. I love you, too. Love you, love you. Be well.
Bye.
Well, you know by that I must have had them walking through.
Well, I did because I've been performing that song, write me a few of your lines, as well as his Kokomo blues, probably since the first time I met Fred.
I was about 19 in 1969, and he was part of the great blues rediscovery in the 60s of all these traditional Delta bluesmen who a lot of times, like Fred, had spent the last 20 years being farmers and then suddenly were discovered by either British or white college kids coming over that just fell in love. And I... got his record on our Hooley Records and learned the song.
And then I was honored enough to meet him and travel around with him. And I actually opened a lot of shows for him early on when I was still cutting my teeth and right before I got my first record deal. So he's really my favorite and my closest friend, and I miss him a lot.
And I wanted people to know that when they hear my version on the live album, for example, that this is where we got it, the great Mississippi Fred McDowell. Oh, let's hear it, recorded in 1964.
Actually, I started out with the father of Delta Blues making an appearance in Cambridge at the house of a man who helped rediscover him, Dick Waterman, who came to be a very important part of my life and a lot of lives of blues people.
Sun House was staying with Dick Waterman in Cambridge where I was going to college, and I heard through the Harvard radio station that he was going to be there, and this other blues fanatic friend of mine said, would you like to meet him? So it started with that, and then I met Dick Waterman that day.
went on to get to hang out with Skip James and big boy Arthur Crudup and Fred McDowell and Mance Lipscomb and then Buddy Guy Jr. Wells were all people that Dick booked. And he had worked with Mississippi John Hurt, who unfortunately had passed away before I got a chance to meet him. But that was my entry into meeting all these great blues people. And part of the reason I took a
semester off in my sophomore year was because I knew that these guys were up in age and that I wasn't going to have this opportunity to kind of get to know them and learn at their feet and be of service or just hang out and soak this up. And that was when Fred and I just made this bond.
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