American musician (born 1949)
Bonnie Raitt
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Raitt in 2000
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Birth name
| Bonnie Lynn Raitt
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Born
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1949-11-08
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November 8, 1949
(age 74)
Burbank, California
, U.S.
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Genres
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Occupation(s)
| - Singer
- musician
- songwriter
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Instrument(s)
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Years active
| 1971?present
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Website
| bonnieraitt
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Musical artist
Bonnie Lynn Raitt
(
;
[1]
born November 8, 1949) is an American
blues rock
singer, guitarist, and songwriter. In 1971, Raitt released her
self-titled debut album
. Following this, she released a series of critically acclaimed
roots
-influenced albums that incorporated elements of
blues
,
rock
,
folk
, and
country
. She was also a frequent session player and collaborator with other artists, including
Warren Zevon
,
Little Feat
,
Jackson Browne
,
the Pointer Sisters
,
John Prine
, and
Leon Russell
.
In 1989, after several years of limited commercial success, she had a major hit with her tenth studio album,
Nick of Time
, which included the
song of the same name
. The album reached number one on the
Billboard
200
chart, and won the
Grammy Award for Album of the Year
. It has since been selected by the
Library of Congress
for preservation in the United States
National Recording Registry
. Her following two albums,
Luck of the Draw
(1991) and
Longing in Their Hearts
(1994), were multimillion sellers, generating several hit singles, including "
Something to Talk About
", "
Love Sneakin' Up On You
", and the ballad "
I Can't Make You Love Me
" (with
Bruce Hornsby
on piano). Her 2022 single "
Just Like That
" won the
Grammy Award for Song of the Year
.
As of 2023, Raitt has received 13 competitive
Grammy Awards
, from 30 nominations, as well as a
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
.
[2]
She ranked No. 50 on
Rolling Stone
'
s list of the "
100 Greatest Singers of All Time
"
[3]
and ranked No. 89 on the magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
[4]
Australian country music artist
Graeme Connors
has said "Bonnie Raitt does something with a lyric no one else can do; she bends it and twists it right into your heart."
[5]
In 2000, Raitt was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
. She has received the
Icon Award
from the
Billboard Women in Music Awards
and the
MusiCares Person of the Year Award
from
The Recording Academy
.
Early life
[
edit
]
Bonnie Lynn Raitt was born on November 8, 1949, in
Burbank, California
.
Her mother, Marge Goddard (nee Haydock), was a pianist, and her father,
John Raitt
, was an actor in
musical
productions such as
Oklahoma!
and
The Pajama Game
.
[7]
Raitt is of Scottish ancestry; her ancestors constructed
Rait Castle
near
Nairn
.
[8]
As a child, Raitt would often play with her two brothers, Steve and David and was a self-described
tomboy
.
John Raitt's job as a theater actor meant Bonnie did not interact with him as much as she would have liked. Raitt grew to resent her mother, as she became the main authority figure of the household whenever John was away.
Raitt's musically inclined parents had a strong influence on her life. From a young age, she and her brothers were encouraged to pursue music.
Initially, Raitt played the piano but was intimidated by her mother's abilities.
She instead began playing a
Stella
guitar, which she received as a Christmas gift in 1957 at the age of eight.
[7]
Raitt did not take lessons; she was instead influenced by the
American folk music revival
of the 1950s. She was also influenced by the
beatnik
movement, stating "It represented my whole belief [...] I'd grow my hair real long so I looked like a beatnik."
From ages eight through fifteen, Raitt and her brothers attended a
summer camp
in the
Adirondack Mountains
called Camp Regis.
It was there where Raitt learned of her musical talents, when camp counselors would ask her to play in front of the campers.
Learning how to play songs from folk albums then became a hobby for Raitt.
As a teenager, Raitt was self-conscious about her weight and her
freckles
, and saw music as an escape from reality.
"That was my saving grace. I just sat in my room and played my guitar," said Raitt.
After graduating from
Oakwood Friends School
in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1967, Raitt entered
Radcliffe College
of
Harvard University
, majoring in
Social Relations
and
African studies
.
[7]
She said her "plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President
Julius Nyerere
was creating a government based on democracy and socialism".
[16]
She was the lead singer in a campus music group called the "Revolutionary Music Collective" founded by songwriter
Bob Telson
which played for striking
Harvard
students during the
Student strike of 1970
.
[17]
Raitt befriended blues promoter
Dick Waterman
.
[16]
During her second year of college, Raitt left school for a semester and moved to Philadelphia with Waterman and other local musicians. Raitt said it was an "opportunity that changed everything."
[16]
Career
[
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]
1970?1976
[
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]
In the summer of 1970, she played with her brother David on stand-up bass with
Mississippi Fred McDowell
at the
Philadelphia Folk Festival
as well as opening for
John Hammond
at
the Gaslight Cafe
in New York. She was seen by a reporter from
Newsweek
, who began to spread the word about her performance. Scouts from major record companies were soon attending her shows to watch her play. She eventually accepted an offer from
Warner Bros.
, who soon released her debut album,
Bonnie Raitt
, in 1971.
[18]
The album was warmly received by the music press, with many writers praising her skills as an interpreter and as a bottleneck guitarist; at the time, few women in popular music had strong reputations as guitarists.
While admired by those who saw her perform, and respected by her peers, Raitt gained little public acclaim for her work. Her critical stature continued to grow but record sales remained modest. Her second album,
Give It Up
, was released in 1972 to positive reviews.
[19]
One journalist described the album as "an excellent set" and "established the artist as an inventive and sympathetic interpreter".
[18]
However, it did not change her commercial fortunes. 1973's
Takin' My Time
was also met with critical acclaim, but these notices were not matched by the sales.
[18]
Raitt began to receive greater press coverage, including a 1975 cover story for
Rolling Stone
, but with 1974's
Streetlights
, reviews for her work were becoming increasingly mixed.
[18]
By this point, Raitt was already experimenting with different producers and different styles, and she began to adopt a more mainstream sound that continued through 1975's
Home Plate
. In 1976, Raitt made an appearance on
Warren Zevon
's
eponymous album
.
She was influenced by the playing style of
Lowell George
, of the band
Little Feat
, particularly his use of a pre-amp
compressor
with a
slide guitar
.
B.B. King
once called Raitt the "best damn slide player working today".
[20]
[21]
1977?1988
[
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]
1977's
Sweet Forgiveness
album gave Raitt her first commercial breakthrough,
[18]
when it yielded a hit single in her remake of
"Runaway".
Recast as a heavy
rhythm and blues
recording based on a rhythmic groove inspired by
Al Green
, Raitt's version of "Runaway" was disparaged by many critics. However, the song's commercial success prompted a bidding war for Raitt between
Warner Bros.
and
Columbia Records
. "There was this big Columbia?Warner war going on at the time", recalled Raitt in a 1990 interview. "
James Taylor
had just left Warner Bros. and made a big album for Columbia... And then, Warner signed
Paul Simon
away from Columbia, and they didn't want me to have a hit record for Columbia ? no matter what! So, I renegotiated my contract, and they basically matched Columbia's offer. Frankly the deal was a really big deal."
Warner Brothers held higher expectations for Raitt's next album,
The Glow
, in 1979, but it was released to poor reviews as well as modest sales.
[18]
Raitt had one commercial success in 1979 when she helped organize the five concerts of
Musicians United for Safe Energy
(MUSE) at
Madison Square Garden
in New York City. Those shows spawned the three-record gold album
No Nukes
, as well as a Warner Brothers feature film
of the same name
, and featured co-founders
Jackson Browne
,
Graham Nash
,
John Hall
, and Raitt as well as
Bruce Springsteen
,
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
,
the Doobie Brothers
,
Carly Simon
,
James Taylor
,
Gil Scott-Heron
, and others.
In 1980, she appeared as herself in the
Paramount
film
Urban Cowboy
where she sang "Don't It Make You Wanna Dance".
For her next record, 1982's
Green Light
, Raitt made a conscious attempt to revisit the sound of her earlier records. However, to her surprise, many of her peers and the media compared her new sound to the burgeoning
new wave
movement. The album received her strongest reviews in years, but her sales did not improve and this had a severe impact on her relationship with Warner Brothers.
[18]
Tongue and Groove
and release from Warner Brothers
[
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]
In 1983, Raitt was finishing work on her follow-up album,
Tongue and Groove
. The day after mastering was completed on
Tongue & Groove
, the record company dropped Raitt from its roster, not being happy with her commercial performance up to that point.
[18]
The album was shelved and not released, and Raitt was left without a record contract. At this time Raitt was also struggling with alcohol and drug abuse problems.
[23]
Despite her personal and professional problems, Raitt continued to tour and participate in political activism. In 1985, she sang and appeared in the video of "
Sun City
", the anti-
apartheid
song written and produced by guitarist
Steven Van Zandt
. Along with her participation in
Farm Aid
and
Amnesty International
concerts, Raitt traveled to
Moscow, Russia
in 1987 to participate in the first joint Soviet/American Peace Concert, later shown on the
Showtime
cable network. Also in 1987, Raitt organized a benefit in
Los Angeles
for Countdown '87 to Stop
Contra
Aid. The benefit featured herself, along with
Don Henley
,
Herbie Hancock
, and others.
Two years after Warner Brothers Records dropped Raitt from their label, they notified her of their plans to release the
Tongue and Groove
album. "I said it wasn't really fair," recalled Raitt. "I think at this point they felt kind of bad. I mean, I was out there touring on my savings to keep my name up, and my ability to draw was less and less. So they agreed to let me go in and recut half of it, and that's when it came out as
Nine Lives
." That album, released in 1986 to critical and commercial disappointment, was Raitt's last new recording for Warner Brothers.
[18]
In late 1987, Raitt joined singers
k.d. lang
and
Jennifer Warnes
as background vocalists for
Roy Orbison
's television special,
Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night
. Following this highly acclaimed broadcast, Raitt began working on new material. By then, she was clean and sober, having resolved her problems with substance abuse. She later credited
Stevie Ray Vaughan
for his help in a
Minnesota State Fair
concert
[24]
the night after Vaughan's 1990 death. During this time, Raitt considered signing with the
Prince
-owned
Paisley Park Records
, but they could not come to an agreement and negotiations fell through. Instead, she began recording a bluesy mix of pop and rock songs under the production guidance of
Don Was
at
Capitol Records
.
[18]
Raitt had met Was through
Hal Willner
, who was putting together
Stay Awake
, a tribute album to
Disney
music for
A&M
. Was and Willner both wanted Raitt to sing lead on an adult-contemporary arrangement created by Was for "
Baby Mine
", the lullaby from
Dumbo
. Raitt was very pleased with the sessions, and she asked Was to produce her next album.
1989?1999: Commercial breakthrough
[
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]
After working with Was on the
Stay Awake
album, Raitt's management, Gold Mountain, approached numerous labels about a new record deal and found interest from
Capitol Records
.
[18]
Raitt was signed to Capitol by A&R executive
Tim Devine
. With her first Capitol Records release, and after nearly twenty years in the business, Raitt achieved commercial success with
Nick of Time
, her tenth overall album of her career.
[18]
Released in the spring of 1989,
Nick of Time
went to number one on the U.S. album chart following Raitt's Grammy sweep in early 1990.
[18]
This album has also been voted number 230 in the
Rolling Stone
list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Raitt later stated that her 10th try was "my first sober album."
[25]
[26]
At the same time, Raitt received a fourth
Grammy Award
for her duet "
I'm in the Mood
" with
John Lee Hooker
on his album
The Healer
.
[18]
Nick of Time
was also the first of many of her recordings to feature her longtime rhythm section of
Ricky Fataar
and
James "Hutch" Hutchinson
(although previously Fataar had played on her
Green Light
album and Hutchinson had worked on
Nine Lives
), both of whom continue to record and tour with her. Since its release in 1989,
Nick of Time
has currently sold over five million copies in the US alone.
Raitt followed up this success with three more Grammy Awards for her next album, 1991's
Luck of the Draw
, which sold seven million copies in the United States. Three years later, in 1994, she added two more Grammys with her album
Longing in Their Hearts
, her second number one album, that sold two million copies in the US.
[18]
Raitt's collaboration with Don Was amicably came to an end with 1995's live release
Road Tested
.
[18]
Released to solid reviews, it was certified
gold
in the US.
"
Rock Steady
" was a hit written by
Bryan Adams
and
Gretchen Peters
in 1995. The song was written as a duet with Bryan Adams and Bonnie Raitt for her Road Tested tour, which also became one of her albums. The original demo version of the song appears on Adams' 1996 single "Let's Make a Night to Remember".
For her next studio album, Raitt hired
Mitchell Froom
and
Tchad Blake
as her producers. "I loved working with
Don Was
but I wanted to give myself and my fans a stretch and do something different," Raitt stated. Her work with Froom and Blake was released on
Fundamental
in 1998.
2000?2007
[
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]
In March 2000, Raitt was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in
Cleveland
, Ohio.
Silver Lining
was released in 2002. In the US, it reached number 13 on the
Billboard
chart
and was later certified Gold. It contains the singles "I Can't Help You Now", "Time of Our Lives", and the title track. All three singles charted within the top 40 of the US Adult Contemporary chart.
On March 19, 2002, Bonnie Raitt received a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame
for her contributions to the recording industry, located at 1750 N. Vine Street.
[27]
[28]
In 2003 Capitol Records released the compilation album
The Best of Bonnie Raitt
. It contains songs from her prior Capitol albums from 1989 to 2002 including
Nick of Time
,
Luck of the Draw
,
Longing in Their Hearts
,
Road Tested
,
Fundamental
, and
Silver Lining
. Raitt was featured on the album
True Love
by
Toots and the Maytals
, which won the
Grammy Award
in 2004 for Best Reggae Album.
[29]
Souls Alike
was released in September 2005. In the US, it reached the top 20 on the
Billboard
chart. It contains the singles "I Will Not Be Broken" and "I Don't Want Anything to Change", which both charted in the top 40 of the US Adult Contemporary chart. In 2006, she released the live DVD/CD
Bonnie Raitt and Friends
, which was filmed as part of the critically acclaimed
VH1 Classic
Decades Rock Live!
concert series, featuring special guests
Keb' Mo'
,
Alison Krauss
,
Ben Harper
,
Jon Cleary
, and
Norah Jones
. The DVD was released by Capitol Records on August 15.
Bonnie Raitt and Friends
, which was recorded live in
Atlantic City, NJ
on September 30, 2005, features never-before-seen performance and interview footage, including four duets not included in the VH1 Classic broadcast of the concert. The accompanying CD features 11 tracks, including the radio single "Two Lights in the Nighttime" (featuring Ben Harper). In 2007, Raitt contributed to
Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino
. With
Jon Cleary
, she sang a medley of "
I'm in Love Again
" and "All by Myself" by
Fats Domino
.
Raitt is interviewed on screen and appears in performance footage in the 2005 documentary film
Make It Funky!
, which presents a history of
New Orleans music
and its influence on
rhythm and blues
,
rock and roll
,
funk
and
jazz
.
[30]
In the film, Raitt performs "What is Success" with
Allen Toussaint
and band,
[31]
a song he wrote and that Raitt included on her 1974 album
Streetlights
.
2008?present
[
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]
Raitt appeared on the June 7, 2008 broadcast of
Garrison Keillor
's radio program
A Prairie Home Companion
. She performed two blues songs with
Keb' Mo'
: "No Getting Over You" and "There Ain't Nothin' in Ramblin'". Raitt also sang "
Dimming of the Day
" with
Richard Thompson
. This show, along with another one with Raitt and her band in October 2006, is archived on the
Prairie Home Companion
website. Raitt appeared in the 2011 documentary
Reggae Got Soul: The Story of
Toots and the Maytals
, which was featured on the
BBC
and described as "The untold story of one of the most influential artists ever to come out of Jamaica".
[32]
[33]
In February 2012, Raitt performed a duet with
Alicia Keys
at the
54th Annual Grammy Awards
in 2012 honoring
Etta James
. In April 2012, Raitt released her first studio album since 2005, entitled
Slipstream
. It charted at Number 6 on the US
Billboard
200
chart marking her first top ten album since 1994's
Longing in Their Hearts
. The album was described as "one of the best of her 40-year career" by
American Songwriter
magazine.
[34]
In September 2012, Raitt was featured in a campaign called "30 Songs / 30 Days" to support
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
, a multi-platform media project inspired by a project outlined in a book by
Nicholas Kristof
and
Sheryl WuDunn
.
[35]
In 2013, she appeared on
Foy Vance
's album
Joy of Nothing
.
[36]
On May 30, 2015,
Leon Russell
, Bonnie Raitt and
Ivan Neville
gave a performance at The Canyon Club in
Agoura Hills, California
to raise cash for
Marty Grebb
who was battling cancer. Grebb had played on some of their albums.
[37]
In February 2016, Raitt released her seventeenth studio album
Dig In Deep
. The album charted at number 11 on the US
Billboard
200 chart
[38]
and received favorable reviews.
[39]
The album features the single "Gypsy in Me" as well as a cover of the
INXS
song "
Need You Tonight
".
Raitt cancelled the first leg of her 2018 spring-summer touring schedule due to a recently discovered medical issue requiring surgical intervention. She reported that a "full recovery" is expected and that she planned to resume touring with already-scheduled dates in June 2018.
[40]
In 2022, Raitt announced the title of her 21st studio album would be
Just Like That...
. The record was released on April 22, 2022, and coincided with the beginning of a nationwide tour that ran through November 2022. Preceding the album, Raitt released "Made Up Mind", a song originally written by Canadian roots duo
The Bros. Landreth
, as the lead single.
[41]
The title track of the album won for
Song of the Year
at the
65th Annual Grammy Awards
in February 2023. The song also won in the
Best American Roots Song
category.
[2]
Artistry
[
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]
Raitt possesses a
contralto
vocal range.
[42]
[43]
[44]
[45]
Music journalist
Robert Christgau
described Raitt's voice as not particularly beautiful but "textured", capable of shouting, crooning, "carry[ing] a tune or fill[ing] a room".
[43]
Christgau likened her vocal style to "a loving woman who has the touch, soft and hard at the right times in the right places".
[43]
Journalist
Will Hermes
described Raitt's voice as warm and precise.
[46]
Describing her as a "master interpreter of other writers’ songs", Chris Hansen Orf of
The Arizona Republic
note that Raitt is equally skilled at singing blues, folk, country, rock and pop music.
[47]
Kevin McKeough of the
Chicago Tribune
observed that blues has "remained the bedrock of all of Raitt's musical excursions", with her voice alternating between "sigh to a call to a sustained cry".
[48]
Discussing the ability of a singer to make use of her voice, singer
Linda Ronstadt
stated "Of my own peers, Bonnie Raitt has way more musicianship than I do."
[49]
Singer and guitarist
David Crosby
has said that Raitt is his favorite singer of all time.
[50]
Personal life
[
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]
Raitt has taken
sabbaticals
, including after the deaths of her parents, brother, and best friend. She has said "When I went through a lot of loss, I took a hiatus."
[51]
Raitt and actor
Michael O'Keefe
were married on April 27, 1991.
[18]
They announced their divorce on November 9, 1999,
[52]
with a factor appearing to be that their careers caused considerable time apart.
[53]
Drug and alcohol use and recovery
[
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]
Raitt was a user of alcohol and drugs, but began
psychotherapy
and joined
Alcoholics Anonymous
in the late 1980s. "I thought I had to live that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic," she said, "but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you're going to be is sloppy or dead."
[51]
She has been sober since 1987. She has credited
Stevie Ray Vaughan
for breaking her substance abuse, saying that what gave her the courage to admit her alcohol problem and stop drinking was seeing that Vaughan was an even better musician when sober.
[54]
She has also said that she stopped because she realized that the "late night life" was not working for her.
[55]
In 1989, she said, "I really feel like some angels have been carrying me around. I just have more focus and more discipline, and consequently more self-respect."
[56]
Political activism
[
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]
Raitt's political involvement goes back to the early 1970s. Her 1972 album
Give It Up
had a dedication "to the people of
North Vietnam
..." printed on the back. Raitt's web site urges fans to learn more about preserving the environment. She was a founding member of
Musicians United for Safe Energy
in 1979 and a catalyst for the larger
anti-nuclear movement
, becoming involved with groups like the
Abalone Alliance
and Alliance for Survival. In 1994 at the urging of
Dick Waterman
, Raitt funded the replacement of a headstone for one of her mentors, blues guitarist
Fred McDowell
through the
Mt. Zion Memorial Fund
. Raitt later financed memorial headstones in Mississippi for musicians
Memphis Minnie
,
Sam Chatmon
, and
Tommy Johnson
again with the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund.
In 2002, Raitt signed on as an official supporter of
Little Kids Rock
, a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and free lessons to children in public schools throughout the U.S. She has visited children in the program and sits on the organization's board of directors as an honorary member.
At the
Stockholm Jazz Festival
in July 2004, Raitt dedicated a performance of "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)", from her 1979 album
The Glow
, to sitting (and later re-elected) U.S. President
George W. Bush
. She was quoted as saying "We're gonna sing this for George Bush because he's out of here, people!".
[
citation needed
]
In 2008, Raitt donated a song to the
Aid Still Required
's CD to assist with relief efforts in Southeast Asia from the
2004 tsunami
. Raitt worked with
Reverb
, a non-profit environmental organization, for her 2005 fall/winter and 2006 spring/summer/fall tours.
[57]
Raitt is part of the
No Nukes group
, which opposes the expansion of nuclear power. In 2007, No Nukes recorded a music video of a new version of the
Buffalo Springfield
song "
For What It's Worth
".
[58]
[59]
[60]
During the
2008 Democratic primary campaign
, Raitt, along with
Jackson Browne
and bassist
James "Hutch" Hutchinson
, performed at campaign appearances for candidate
John Edwards
.
During the
2016 Democratic primary campaign
, Raitt endorsed Vermont Senator
Bernie Sanders
.
[61]
Discography
[
edit
]
Guitar
[
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]
Raitt's principal touring guitar is a customized
Fender Stratocaster
that she nicknamed Brownie. This became the basis for a signature model in 1996. Raitt was the first female musician to receive a signature Fender line.
My brown Strat?the body is a '65 and the neck is from some time after that. It's kind of a hybrid that I got for $120 at 3 o' clock in the morning in 1969. It's the one without the paint, and I've used that for every gig since 1969.
[63]
Awards
[
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]
- Grammy Awards
†: Not a Grammy Award, but awarded by
The Recording Academy
- Americana Music Honors and Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Other awards
References
[
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]
Citations
[
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]
- ^
"Say How: R"
. National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
. Retrieved
December 31,
2020
.
- ^
a
b
"Artist: Bonnie Raitt"
.
Grammy.com
. Recording Academy. 2023
. Retrieved
February 6,
2023
.
- ^
"100 Greatest Singers"
.
Rolling Stone
. November 23, 2011. Archived from
the original
on September 2, 2017
. Retrieved
September 2,
2017
.
- ^
"100 Greatest Guitarists"
.
Rolling Stone
. November 23, 2011.
Archived
from the original on July 18, 2012
. Retrieved
September 1,
2012
.
- ^
Chris Coleman (January 18, 2008).
"Summer Conversations January 2008"
. ABC New South Wales. (
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
). Archived from
the original
on February 1, 2008
. Retrieved
April 7,
2011
.
- ^
a
b
c
"Bonnie Raitt Biography"
.
Official Bonnie Raitt website
.
Archived
from the original on February 13, 2014
. Retrieved
April 19,
2014
.
- ^
Italie, Hillel (July 14, 1991).
"Bonnie Raitt discovers her roots"
.
Lawrence Journal-World
.
Associated Press
. p. 4D
. Retrieved
December 24,
2016
.
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a
b
c
"Bonnie Raitt's Aha! Moment"
.
O, The Oprah Magazine
.
3
(7): 47?48. July 2002.
- ^
Heller, Billy (August 11, 2009).
"Still Completely First Raitt"
.
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August 23,
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.
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Colin Larkin
, ed. (1995).
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ISBN
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.
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Erlewine, Stephen Thomas.
"Bonnie Raiit: Give It Up"
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Viva la Vida
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(songwriters) (2008)
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Jeff Bhasker
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(songwriters) (2012)
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Royals
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Joel Little
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Ella Yelich O'Connor
(songwriters) (2013)
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Stay with Me
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Darkchild
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William Phillips
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Sam Smith
(songwriters) (2014)
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Thinking Out Loud
" ?
Ed Sheeran
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(songwriters) (2015)
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Hello
" ?
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&
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(songwriters) (2016)
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That's What I Like
" ?
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,
James Fauntleroy
,
Philip Lawrence
,
Bruno Mars
,
Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip
(songwriters) (2017)
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This Is America
" ?
Donald Glover
,
Ludwig Goransson
&
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(songwriters) (2018)
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Bad Guy
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