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Vote: | I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with. |
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Vote: | I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. |
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Vote: | I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all. |
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Vote: | I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids. |
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Vote: | I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me. |
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Vote: | Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind. |
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Vote: | There wouldn't be any rhythmic music if not for sexuality. Sensuality and sexuality is at once complex and simple. It shouldn't be cheapened by a girlie show. |
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Bonnie Raitt, (born November 8, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitar virtuoso who was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt.
She began playing guitar at the age of 12, something not a lot of her high school girlfriends did, and after leaving college she began playing the Rhythm and Blues clubs. While admired by those who saw her perform, and respected by her peers such as blues legend Howlin' Wolf, she gained little public acclaim for her work. In 1983, struggling with alcohol and drug abuse, she was dropped by her record label, Warner Bros., and all but disappeared from the music scene.
In late 1987 she joined k.d. lang and Jennifer Warnes as female background vocals for Roy Orbison's television special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. Following this highly acclaimed broadcast, she began working on new material, recording a bluesy mix of hard rock under the production guidance of Don Was at Capitol Records. After more than twenty years of singing and recording popular music, Bonnie Raitt achieved immense success with her 10th album. Released in 1989, "Nick of Time" went to the top of the U.S. charts and won three Grammy Awards. At the same time, she walked away with a fourth Grammy Award for her duet "In the Mood" with John Lee Hooker on his album "The Healer".
She followed up this success with three more Grammy Awards for her 1991 album, "Luck of the Draw", then, in 1994 she added two more Grammy's with her album "Longing in Their Hearts".
She appeared on Warren Zevon's self-titled album in 1976 with Warren Zevon's friend Jackson Browne and Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
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)
*Road Tested (1995)
*Fundamental (1998)
*Silver Lining (2002)
...(more on Wikipedia)
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