Bonnie Raitt sat on a stool in the middle of the Pinewood Bowl stage Tuesday, getting ready to play an out-there version of J.B. Lenoir’s “Round and Round.”
But before she could kick off the blues, she had to wipe down the neck of her acoustic guitar.
“It’s moist here in Nebraska,” Raitt said. “I thought it was dry.”
That got some quips from the 3,500 who were able connect with Raitt from the instant she and her fine band started playing a blues rock version of INXS’s “Need You Tonight.”
That’s one of the songs on “Dig in Deep,” Raitt’s new album, which she mined extensively in Tuesday’s engagingly relaxed show that was like none other she’s done on her summer tour.
“It’s too dark to read the setlist,” she said. “I’m messing around with the setlist.”
That was clear when she called out “Let’s do ‘Unintended,'” sending the band scrambling to “Unintended Consequence of Love” from “Dig in Deep.”
That record provided a pair of the night’s highlights, a Rolling Stonesish’ version of her political rocker “The Coming Round is Goin’ Through” that found Raitt doing all her Keith guitar moves and a killer take on Los Lobos’ “Shakin, Shakin, Shakes.”
Bonnie Raitt performs at The Pinewood Bowl Theater, Lincoln NEB on 09/06/2016
Bonnie Raitt performs at The Pinewood Bowl Theater, Lincoln NEB on 09/06/2016
Bonnie Raitt performs at The Pinewood Bowl Theater, Lincoln NEB on 09/06/2016
Bonnie Raitt performs at The Pinewood Bowl Theater, Lincoln NEB on 09/06/2016
Bonnie Raitt shows off a ring she bought from Lincoln jewelry maker Sydney Lynch at a jewelry fair in California a few years ago. Raitt gave Lynch a shout-out at her tuesday night pinewood Bowl concert.
Then Raitt brought out Richard Thompson, who opened the show with a brisk 45-minute rock set with his trio for two songs, including a gorgeous acoustic guitar version of his “Dimming of the Day.”
The night’s other moment of beauty was Raitt’s moving country arrangement of “Angel from Montgomery,” her signature song.
Other highlights of the concert that ran to nearly 2 hours included a get ’em dancing version of “Something to Talk About,” a raucous Fabulous Thunderbirds cover, Raitt on piano on the set closer “What You’re Doin’ to Me.”
Raitt returned with a stunning brushes-on-snare, piano chiller, “I Can’t Make You Love Me” and then stepped to the piano for her swaying recovery rock ballad “Nick of Time.”
Raitt is a roots music treasure who works in a personal blend of blues, rock and R&B with a shade of country and pop.
That’s precisely Raitt and her band delivered on a sultry night in the venue in the park, which she loved.
“That breeze feels good,” she said during the encore. “In a half hour, let’s all meet at the lake.”
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Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.
Bonnie Raitt
I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.
Bonnie Raitt
I don't know if I'm a heroine; I'm just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups.
Bonnie Raitt
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.
Bonnie Raitt
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
Bonnie Raitt
I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
Bonnie Raitt
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
Bonnie Raitt
I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.
Bonnie Raitt
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
Bonnie Raitt
Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.
Bonnie Raitt
Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.
Bonnie Raitt
Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.
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Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2, the anticipated new John Prine tribute record from Oh Boy Records, is out today. Stream/purchase HERE.
Created as a celebration of Prine’s life and career, the album features new renditions of some of Prine’s most beloved songs performed by Brandi Carlile (“I Remember Everything”), Tyler Childers (“Yes I Guess They Oughta Name A Drink After You”), Iris DeMent (“One Red Rose”), Emmylou Harris (“Hello In There”), Jason Isbell (“Souvenirs”), Valerie June (“Summer’s End”), Margo Price (“Sweet Revenge”), Bonnie Raitt (“Angel From Montgomery”), Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (“Pretty Good”), Amanda Shires (“Saddle in the Rain”), Sturgill Simpson(“Paradise”) and John Paul White (“Sam Stone”). Proceeds from the album will benefit twelve different non-profit organizations, one selected by each of the featured artists.
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Bonnie Raitt - Write Me a Few of Your Lines/Kokomo Blues
60 years anniversary celebration of Arhoolie
December 10, 2020
Arhoolie Foundation celebrates it's 60th anniversary (1960-2020) with an online broadcast.
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Bonnie Raitt - Shadow of Doubt
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
October 3, 2020
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass celebrates it's 20th anniversary with an online broadcast titled “Let The Music Play On”.
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Farm Aid 2020 On the Road
Sam & Dave classic written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter.
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[Eric Clapton’s Crossroads 2019]
Eric Clapton, one of the world’s pre-eminent blues/rock guitarists, once again summoned an all-star team of six-string heroes for his fifth Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2019. Held at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, the two-day concert event raised funds for the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, the chemical dependency treatment and education facility that Clapton founded in 1998.
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'A Tribute To Mose Allison'
Celebrates The Music Of An Exciting Jazz Master
Raitt contributed to a new album, If You're Going To The City: A Tribute To Mose Allison, which celebrates the late singer and pianist, who famously blended the rough-edged blues of the Mississippi Delta with the 1950s jazz of New York City.
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Bonnie Raitt about her friendship with the Mose Allison. They're also joined by Amy Allison — his daughter, who executive produced the album — about selecting an unexpected list of artists to contribute songs to the album.
Recorded on tour June 3, 2017 - Centennial Hall, London - Ontario Canada
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