Rita Houston talks with Bonnie Raitt on FUV – April 13, 2012 (photo courtesy of RED Music)

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It’s been a 7-year wait between studio albums, but Bonnie Raitt is back – and in fine form – with her latest release, Slipstream. A lifelong collaborator, Bonnie worked for the first time with Joe Henry on a few of the new songs, but also enlisted her longtime bandmates as well. That crew joined her at NYC’s Avatar Studios recently, where FUV’s Rita Houston had a chance to talk with Bonnie about her place in the slipstream of music.

(recorded 04/13/12)

Bonnie Raitt: 2016

by Rita Houston In the midst of a sold-out, two-night stand at New York City’s Beacon Theatre, Bonnie Raitt sat down for a talk with me backstage. Always energetic, positive and engaged, Bonnie Raitt is a dream interview (and also one of our FUV Essentials). Her new album, Dig in Deep, finds her rocking hard…

Past Shows and Tributes for WFUV Program Director Rita Houston

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NEW TRACKS

Ivan Neville - Hey All Together

Phantom Blues Band - Country Boy (Freddie King)

Duet: Johnny Lee Schell with Bonnie

Livin' For The Ones

(Lyrics: Bonnie Raitt | Music: George Marinelli)

by Bonnie Raitt from her new album, Just Like That...
Street date 4/22/22 with global release in all formats!
Pre-order/Pre-save Just Like That... now: https://lnk.to/justlikethat_br
Stream here: https://lnk.to/somethingsgotaholdofmyheart

Credits: Produced by Bonnie Raitt
Recorded and Mixed by Ryan Freeland

Bonnie: vocal, electric slide guitar
James “Hutch” Hutchinson: bass
Ricky Fataar: drums, percussion , backing vocal
Glenn Patscha: clavinet, piano, electric piano, backing vocal
Kenny Greenberg: electric guitar
George Marinelli: electric guitar, backing vocal

© 2022 Open Secret Music (ASCAP,) Lapiotrope Music (BMI) administered by Bluewater Music Services Corp. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Music video by Bonnie Raitt performing Livin’ For the Ones (Official Lyric Video.) © 2022 Redwing Records, LLC. Distributed by ADA.

SOMETHING’S GOT A HOLD OF MY HEART

(Al Anderson)

Credits: Produced by Bonnie Raitt
Recorded and Mixed by Ryan Freeland

Bonnie: vocal, electric slide guitar
James “Hutch” Hutchinson: bass
Ricky Fataar: drums, percussion , backing vocal
Glenn Patscha: rhodes piano (nord), backing vocal
Kenny Greenberg: electric guitar

© 1992 Mighty Nice Music (BMI) administered by Bluewater Music Services Corp.,
Songs of Windswept Pacific (BMI) administered by BMG Rights Management (US), LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Music video by Bonnie Raitt performing Something’s Got a Hold of My Heart (Official Lyric Video.)
© 2022 Redwing Records, LLC. Distributed by ADA.

Bonnie Raitt performs 'Angel From Montgomery' with Jackson Browne at the 2022 Billboard Women In Music Awards.

MADE UP MIND

(David Landreth/Joseph Sydney Landreth/Jonathan Singleton)

Credits: Produced by Bonnie Raitt
Recorded and Mixed by Ryan Freeland

Bonnie: vocal, electric slide guitar
James “Hutch” Hutchinson: bass
Ricky Fataar: drums, percussion, backing vocal
Glenn Patscha: rhodes piano, hammond B3, backing vocal
Kenny Greenberg: electric guitar

© 2015 Birthday Cake Media A (SOCAN) administered by Warner Chappell Music Canada Ltd., Super Big Music (ASCAP) administered by Big Machine Music, LLC, Jett Music (ASCAP) administered by Big Machine Music, LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Music video by Bonnie Raitt performing Made Up Mind (Lyric Video).
© 2022 Redwing Records, LLC. Distributed by ADA.

NEW recording of Angel from Montgomery !!

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.

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.

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”.

Bonnie Raitt & Boz Scaggs - You Don't Know Like I Know

Farm Aid 2020 On the Road

Sam & Dave classic written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter.

Sheryl Crow & Bonnie Raitt - Everything Is Broken

[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.

'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

Great new track with Bonnie on it !!

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