For decades, Bonnie Raitt has mixed her passion for music with philanthropy and activism. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend is continuing the tour for her 2016 release Dig In Deep with dates Friday at the MACC and Saturday at the Blaisdell Concert Hall before heading… deeper… into the Asia Pacific. She explored how her family musical and Quaker roots have influenced a lifetime of music and giving back with HPR All Things Considered Host Dave Lawrence.

In this very special conversation, the first-time HPR ATC guest discussed her background in detail, including how her family commitment to Quaker values shaped decades of philanthropic efforts, and the ways her parents’ background in performing inspired her own musical career.

She explained how she utilizes her concert tickets to support nonprofits, and shared information about her partnership with the Aria Foundation. She also discussed the fertile scene of performance and activism she found in the Boston area when in college there.

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Among the laundry list of benefit projects found on her resume, she shed light on a recent visit to support Native Americans at Standing Rock, as well as her role in Hawaii benefit concerts following the devastation of Hurricane Iniki, and at the No Nukes shows at Madison Square Garden in 1979.

Bonnie Raitt on The Music Show

Having performed as a guest with a stunning list of fellow artists, she explored critical musical experiences, too, with luminaries like Ray Charles, Jackson Browne and others.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend spoke with HPR All Things Considered Host Dave Lawrence on Hawaii Public Radio in March 2017 during a Hawaii tour.

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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.

Bonnie Raitt returns to Minnesota, a place she considers her 'second home'

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