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Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Lynn Raitt (/rt/;[1] born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer and guitarist. 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.

Bonnie Raitt
Raitt in 2000
Background information
Birth nameBonnie Lynn Raitt
Born (1949-11-08) November 8, 1949 (age 73)
Burbank, California, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • musician
  • songwriter
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Years active1971–present
Labels
Websitebonnieraitt.com

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).

Raitt has received ten competitive Grammy Awards, as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She was ranked number 50 in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time",[2] and was placed on the magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".[3] 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."[4] In 2000, Raitt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She has also received the Icon Award from the Billboard Women in Music Awards.

Early life

Bonnie Lynn Raitt was born on November 8, 1949, in Burbank, California.[5] Her mother, Marge Goddard (née Haydock), was a pianist, while her father, John Raitt, was an actor in musical productions including Oklahoma! and The Pajama Game.[6] Raitt is of Scottish ancestry; her ancestors constructed Rait Castle near Nairn.[7] As a child, Raitt would often play with her two brothers, Steve and David, and was a self-described tomboy.[8] 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.[9]

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.[10] Initially Raitt played the piano but was intimidated by her mother's abilities.[9] She instead began playing a Stella guitar, which she received as a Christmas gift in 1957 at the age of eight.[6][9] Raitt did not take lessons, and instead took influence from 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."[11]

From ages eight through fifteen, Raitt and her brothers attended a summer camp in the Adirondack Mountains called Camp Regis.[9][12] It was there where Raitt learned of her musical talents, when camp counselors would ask her to play in front of the campers.[13] Learning how to play songs from folk albums then became a hobby for Raitt.[13] As a teenager, Raitt was self-conscious about her weight and her freckles, and saw music as an escape from reality.[14] "That was my saving grace. I just sat in my room and played my guitar,” said Raitt.[14]

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.[6] She said her "plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism".[15] 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.[16] Raitt became friends with blues promoter Dick Waterman.[15] 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."[15]

Career

1970–1976

In the summer of 1970, she played with her brother David on stand-up bass with Mississippi Fred McDowell at the Philly 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.[17] 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.[18] One journalist described the album as "an excellent set" and "established the artist as an inventive and sympathetic interpreter".[17] 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.[17]

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.[17] 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 came to know Lowell George of the band Little Feat and was strongly influenced by his style of playing slide guitar with a pre-amp compressor. B.B. King once called Raitt the "best damn slide player working today".[19][20]

1977–1988

 
Raitt performing at the Berkeley Community Theater, 1976–1977

1977's Sweet Forgiveness album gave Raitt her first commercial breakthrough,[17] 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."[21]

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.[17] Raitt had one commercial success in 1979 when she helped organize the five Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The shows spawned the three-record gold album No Nukes, as well as a Warner Brothers feature film of the same name. The shows 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.[17]

Tongue and Groove and release from Warner Brothers

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.[17] 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.[22]

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 being dropped from Warner Brothers Records, the label notified Raitt 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." A critical and commercial disappointment, Nine Lives, released in 1986, was Raitt's last new recording for Warner Brothers.[17]

In late 1987, Raitt joined singers k.d. lang and Jennifer Warnes as female 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[23] 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.[17]

Raitt had met Was through Hal Wilner, who was putting together Stay Awake, a tribute album to Disney music for A&M. Was and Wilner 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

 
Raitt at the 1990 Grammy Awards

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.[17] 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.[17] 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.[17] 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."[24][25]

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.[17] 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.[17] Raitt's collaboration with Don Was amicably came to an end with 1995's live release Road Tested.[17] 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

 
Raitt performing at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, April 23, 2004

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.[26][27] 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.[28]

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.[29] In the film, Raitt performs "What is Success" with Allen Toussaint and band,[30] a song he wrote and that Raitt included on her 1974 album Streetlights.

2008–present

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".[31][32]

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.[33] 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.[34] In 2013, she appeared on Foy Vance's album Joy of Nothing.[35]

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.[36]

In February 2016, Raitt released her seventeenth studio album Dig In Deep. The album charted at number 11 on the US Billboard 200 chart[37] and received favorable reviews.[38] 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.[39]

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 to run through November 2022. Preceding the album, Raitt released "Made Up Mind" as the lead single.[40]

Artistry

Raitt possesses a contralto vocal range.[41][42][43][44] 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".[42] Christgau likened her vocal style to "a loving woman who has the touch, soft and hard at the right times in the right places".[42] Journalist Will Hermes described Raitt's voice as warm and precise.[45] Describing her as a "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.[46] 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".[47] 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."[48] Singer and guitarist David Crosby has said that Raitt is his favorite singer of all time.[49]

Drug and alcohol use and recovery

Raitt used 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."[50] She became clean in 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 Stevie Ray Vaughan was an even better musician when sober.[51] She has also said that she stopped because she realized that the "late night life" was not working for her.[52] 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."[53]

Personal life

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."[50] Raitt and actor Michael O'Keefe were married on April 27, 1991.[17] They announced their divorce on November 9, 1999,[54] with a factor appearing to be that their careers caused considerable time apart.[55]

Political activism

 
Raitt with musician Jackson Browne at a 1997 press conference opposing the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository

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.[56] 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".[57][58][59] 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.[60]

Discography

Guitar

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.[62]

Awards

Grammy Awards
Year Nominee / work Award Result
1980 "You're Gonna Get What's Coming" Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Nominated
1983 "Green Light" Nominated
1987 "No Way to Treat a Lady" Nominated
1990 Nick of Time Album of the Year Won
Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Won
"Nick of Time" Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Won
"I'm in the Mood" (with John Lee Hooker) Best Traditional Blues Recording Won
1992 Luck of the Draw Album of the Year Nominated
"Something to Talk About" Record of the Year Nominated
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Won
"Luck of the Draw" Best Rock Vocal Solo Performance Won
"Good Man, Good Woman" Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal Won
Bonnie Raitt MusiCares Person of the Year  Won
1995 Longing in Their Hearts Album of the Year Nominated
Best Pop Vocal Album Won
"Love Sneakin' Up On You" Record of the Year Nominated
Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Nominated
"Longing in Their Hearts" Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Nominated
1996 "You Got It" Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Nominated
1997 Road Tested Best Rock Album Nominated
"Burning Down the House" Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Nominated
"SRV Shuffle" Best Rock Instrumental Performance Won
1999 "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" (with Jackson Browne) Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Nominated
2003 "Gnawin' on It" Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Nominated
2004 "Time of Our Lives" Nominated
2006 "I Will Not Be Broken" Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Nominated
2013 Slipstream Best Americana Album Won
2022 Herself Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Won

 : Not a Grammy Award, but awarded by The Recording Academy

Americana Music Honors and Awards
Year Nominee / work Award Result
2012 Herself Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance Won
2016 Herself Artist of the Year Nominated
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Year Nominee / work Award Result
2000 Herself Hall of Fame induction Won
Other awards

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General references

External links

  • Official website
  • Fansite: Bonnie's Pride and Joy
  • Allmusic Guide Profile

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Bonnie Lynn Raitt r eɪ t 1 born November 8 1949 is an American blues singer and guitarist 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 Bonnie RaittRaitt in 2000Background informationBirth nameBonnie Lynn RaittBorn 1949 11 08 November 8 1949 age 73 Burbank California U S GenresBlues blues rock roots rock folk rock folk AmericanaOccupation s SingermusiciansongwriterInstrument s Vocals guitarYears active1971 presentLabelsWarner Bros Capitol Redwing ProperWebsitebonnieraitt wbr com 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 Raitt has received ten competitive Grammy Awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award She was ranked number 50 in Rolling Stone s list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time 2 and was placed on the magazine s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time 3 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 4 In 2000 Raitt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame She has also received the Icon Award from the Billboard Women in Music Awards Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 1970 1976 2 2 1977 1988 2 2 1 Tongue and Groove and release from Warner Brothers 2 3 1989 1999 Commercial breakthrough 2 4 2000 2007 2 5 2008 present 3 Artistry 4 Drug and alcohol use and recovery 5 Personal life 6 Political activism 7 Discography 8 Guitar 9 Awards 10 References 10 1 Citations 10 2 General references 11 External linksEarly life EditBonnie Lynn Raitt was born on November 8 1949 in Burbank California 5 Her mother Marge Goddard nee Haydock was a pianist while her father John Raitt was an actor in musical productions including Oklahoma and The Pajama Game 6 Raitt is of Scottish ancestry her ancestors constructed Rait Castle near Nairn 7 As a child Raitt would often play with her two brothers Steve and David and was a self described tomboy 8 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 9 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 10 Initially Raitt played the piano but was intimidated by her mother s abilities 9 She instead began playing a Stella guitar which she received as a Christmas gift in 1957 at the age of eight 6 9 Raitt did not take lessons and instead took influence from 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 11 From ages eight through fifteen Raitt and her brothers attended a summer camp in the Adirondack Mountains called Camp Regis 9 12 It was there where Raitt learned of her musical talents when camp counselors would ask her to play in front of the campers 13 Learning how to play songs from folk albums then became a hobby for Raitt 13 As a teenager Raitt was self conscious about her weight and her freckles and saw music as an escape from reality 14 That was my saving grace I just sat in my room and played my guitar said Raitt 14 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 6 She said her plan was to travel to Tanzania where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism 15 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 16 Raitt became friends with blues promoter Dick Waterman 15 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 15 Career Edit1970 1976 Edit In the summer of 1970 she played with her brother David on stand up bass with Mississippi Fred McDowell at the Philly 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 17 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 18 One journalist described the album as an excellent set and established the artist as an inventive and sympathetic interpreter 17 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 17 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 17 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 came to know Lowell George of the band Little Feat and was strongly influenced by his style of playing slide guitar with a pre amp compressor B B King once called Raitt the best damn slide player working today 19 20 1977 1988 Edit Raitt performing at the Berkeley Community Theater 1976 1977 1977 s Sweet Forgiveness album gave Raitt her first commercial breakthrough 17 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 21 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 17 Raitt had one commercial success in 1979 when she helped organize the five Musicians United for Safe Energy MUSE concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City The shows spawned the three record gold album No Nukes as well as a Warner Brothers feature film of the same name The shows 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 17 Tongue and Groove and release from Warner Brothers Edit In 1983 Raitt was finishing work on her follow up album Tongue and Groove The day after mastering was completed on Tongue amp Groove the record company dropped Raitt from its roster not being happy with her commercial performance up to that point 17 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 22 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 being dropped from Warner Brothers Records the label notified Raitt 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 A critical and commercial disappointment Nine Lives released in 1986 was Raitt s last new recording for Warner Brothers 17 In late 1987 Raitt joined singers k d lang and Jennifer Warnes as female 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 23 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 17 Raitt had met Was through Hal Wilner who was putting together Stay Awake a tribute album to Disney music for A amp M Was and Wilner 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 Edit Raitt at the 1990 Grammy Awards 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 17 Raitt was signed to Capitol by A amp 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 17 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 17 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 24 25 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 17 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 17 Raitt s collaboration with Don Was amicably came to an end with 1995 s live release Road Tested 17 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 Edit Raitt performing at the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival April 23 2004 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 26 27 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 28 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 29 In the film Raitt performs What is Success with Allen Toussaint and band 30 a song he wrote and that Raitt included on her 1974 album Streetlights 2008 present Edit 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 31 32 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 33 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 34 In 2013 she appeared on Foy Vance s album Joy of Nothing 35 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 36 In February 2016 Raitt released her seventeenth studio album Dig In Deep The album charted at number 11 on the US Billboard 200 chart 37 and received favorable reviews 38 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 39 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 to run through November 2022 Preceding the album Raitt released Made Up Mind as the lead single 40 Artistry EditRaitt possesses a contralto vocal range 41 42 43 44 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 42 Christgau likened her vocal style to a loving woman who has the touch soft and hard at the right times in the right places 42 Journalist Will Hermes described Raitt s voice as warm and precise 45 Describing her as a 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 46 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 47 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 48 Singer and guitarist David Crosby has said that Raitt is his favorite singer of all time 49 Drug and alcohol use and recovery EditRaitt used 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 50 She became clean in 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 Stevie Ray Vaughan was an even better musician when sober 51 She has also said that she stopped because she realized that the late night life was not working for her 52 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 53 Personal life EditRaitt 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 50 Raitt and actor Michael O Keefe were married on April 27 1991 17 They announced their divorce on November 9 1999 54 with a factor appearing to be that their careers caused considerable time apart 55 Political activism Edit Raitt with musician Jackson Browne at a 1997 press conference opposing the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository 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 56 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 57 58 59 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 60 Discography EditMain article Bonnie Raitt discography Bonnie Raitt 1971 Give It Up 1972 Takin My Time 1973 Streetlights 1974 Home Plate 1975 Sweet Forgiveness 1977 The Glow 1979 Green Light 1982 Nine Lives 1986 Nick of Time 1989 Luck of the Draw 1991 Longing in Their Hearts 1994 Fundamental 1998 Silver Lining 2002 Souls Alike 2005 Slipstream 2012 Dig In Deep 2016 Just Like That 2022 61 Guitar EditRaitt 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 62 Awards EditGrammy AwardsYear Nominee work Award Result1980 You re Gonna Get What s Coming Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Nominated1983 Green Light Nominated1987 No Way to Treat a Lady Nominated1990 Nick of Time Album of the Year WonBest Female Rock Vocal Performance Won Nick of Time Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Won I m in the Mood with John Lee Hooker Best Traditional Blues Recording Won1992 Luck of the Draw Album of the Year Nominated Something to Talk About Record of the Year NominatedBest Female Pop Vocal Performance Won Luck of the Draw Best Rock Vocal Solo Performance Won Good Man Good Woman Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal WonBonnie Raitt MusiCares Person of the Year Won1995 Longing in Their Hearts Album of the Year NominatedBest Pop Vocal Album Won Love Sneakin Up On You Record of the Year NominatedBest Female Rock Vocal Performance Nominated Longing in Their Hearts Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Nominated1996 You Got It Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Nominated1997 Road Tested Best Rock Album Nominated Burning Down the House Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Nominated SRV Shuffle Best Rock Instrumental Performance Won1999 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine with Jackson Browne Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Nominated2003 Gnawin on It Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Nominated2004 Time of Our Lives Nominated2006 I Will Not Be Broken Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Nominated2013 Slipstream Best Americana Album Won2022 Herself Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Won Not a Grammy Award but awarded by The Recording Academy Americana Music Honors and AwardsYear Nominee work Award Result2012 Herself Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance Won2016 Herself Artist of the Year NominatedRock and Roll Hall of FameYear Nominee work Award Result2000 Herself Hall of Fame induction WonOther awardsIn 1992 Raitt was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music 63 In 1997 Raitt was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal 64 In 2017 Raitt was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Guitar Museum 65 In 2018 Raitt received the People s Voice Award from the Folk Alliance International Awards in recognition of her activism 66 In 2022 Raitt received the Icon Award at the Billboard Women in Music Awards 67 References EditCitations Edit Say How R National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled Retrieved December 31 2020 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 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