Bonnie Raitt

Loved her version of Angel from Montgomery. Also Love Has No Pride. No one sings about pain and longing like Bonnie.

I liked the same early period of her music as you describe, OP. Many circle of college friends were wild for her and I went to a couple of her concerts.

I don't find that it holds up well, though, and with time her songs and voice lost something. I believe in killing off one's musical favorites and finding new ones, with very rare exception. Raitt fell from grace in my case, and never worked her way back in. If I hear one of what used to be my favorites of hers, it sparks nothing.

My late mother never missed an opportunity to remind us who Bonnie's father was.

She has classic witch-face

I always admired a cover of “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine” performed by Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne in tribute to Pete Seeger.

I agree with OP but I’m glad Raitt found greater mainstream success after getting sober. I always wanted her to duet with her dead dad (a la Natalie and Nat) on “Hey There.”

I don’t think I was aware of her before Nick of Time, which I absolutely loved. I then started to hear her older music as well as her new music going forward. It was nice to see her win a big late career Grammy a couple of years ago.

I always got her confused with Olympic speed skaing champion Bonnie Blair!

ICMYLM is one of the best songs ever written and Raitt sings it so beautifully. You can really hear her soul in it.

Actually 1989 was the year her career went into the stratosphere not peaked. Her follow up luck of the draw was even bigger than nick of time.

She continues to tour and she gives GREAT SHOW !

She IS Bonnie Raitt!

R8 I agree. I wept many times to that song.....it felt like it was written about me and my unrequited love.

this 1973 effort still sounds great ...

Bonnie came off very well in the Linda Ronstadt doc from 5 years ago or so..

Ugh, so overrated

Remind me not to invite Debbie Downer r14 to my dinner party.

I've seen her in concert a number of times and she's always great. I just recently discovered she recorded this Bryan Adams song around the same time as the Bonnie version I knew (Bonnie Tyler)

HAVE A HEART sounded like a commercial for heart disease.

I could just listen to Nick of Time and chain smoke through the whole thing….

I think Nick of Time and Luck of the Draw are her masterpieces.

She stole my man!

lol, R20. That’s right- Raitt was married to him at the same time he was on “Roseanne”.

Something that always gets me is how Raitt’s speaking voice is so much more mile than I’d expect. But then she did grow up in LA and went to Radcliffe.

*mild

I saw her in ‘91 touring for her Luck Of The Draw album, and unlike OP I recall Bonnie had a decent handful of her older tunes in her set list. She did an especially good job with “Your Good Thing.” Chris Isaak was the opening act.

Her Green Light LP from the early eighties is quite good. I think Keep This Heart in Mind would’ve been a hit single had it been released ten years earlier or ten years later.

Her debut album has a great version of Since I Fell for You, maybe my favorite.

She was barely in her twenties when she recorded it.

The world could use more nepobabies like this.

One could skip rope slowly through her vibrato 30 years ago.

Now they ask her not to sing near the ocean because the whales drown.

Along with Carole King, she sang background on Irene Cara's song Girlfriends.

Bonnie recorded an album with Prince around the time of Sign of the Times, but it was never released.