Watching Bonnie Raitt on Austin City Limits right now. Goodness...

[MiddleFingerMom]

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... but that woman could tell me to jump and I'd not only ask "how high", I'd ask her
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63 years old and still smokin' in so many ways.
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One of the best shows I've ever been to was at the Valley Forge Music Center (long
defunct), an 1100-seat theatre-in-the-round. Bonnie Raitt, backed up by a band
called, "Chicken Legs". I went with our first guitarist and his GF. After the show, I
was raving not only about Bonnie, but her backup band.
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He let me know they were all the surviving members of Little Feat after Lowell George
died (and before they reformed as "Little Feat".
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[olddots]

1. Bonnies a national treasure

Wish I had seen the Little Feat band members with her .......that's her on Dixie Chicken .

[Ptah]

2. And Mavis!!

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I'm looking forward to watching that tonight.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I met her IRL back in the late '70s.

Was going to her concert and just happened to meet friends at the hotel where she was staying. Of course, I spoke and asked her for an autograph and she was awfully cordial about it. What amazed me was how small she is. I'm not tall or large, but I towered over her, she's so petite. But she sure can belt out a tune!

[TexasTowelie]

5. Whoa boy!

We don't want that heart going thumpety-thump-thump again. Getting those tag-team sponge baths by the nurses is running up a fortune.

[6000eliot]

6. Her latest album is INCREDIBLE!

I have it on vinyl. She does a version of Gerry Rafferty's "Right Down the Line" that send chills down my spine.

[In_The_Wind]

7. There is something about a redheaded shitkickin' woman .........

ya gotta admire!

[MiddleFingerMom]

8. Early in her career (the 70's) she was a HARD-drinkin', HARD-lovin' woman...

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... who embraced her blues/rock stardom and all the excesses it had to offer. She was probably
on track to be another Janis... but seemed to slow down and mellow out (my bet is that sometime
long ago, she went clean-and-sober, whether through just plain decision or very discreet rehab).
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I mean, just LOOK at her... that is not the 63-year-old face and body of someone who traveled
a VERY long, hard road.
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My band was a multi-genre, all-original band except for three covers that we did (and one verse
from a Poi Dog Pondering song that we inserted into the middle of one of ours).
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She did one of the three tonight -- John Hiatt's "Thing Called Love".
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We had a female singer with the band, too -- and she and I did it as a duet. It was an extremely
fun song to perform.
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Bonnie covered several Randy Newman songs. This is one of them and is my absolute favorite
song that she's ever done. I never did discuss doing this with the band, though I would have
loved that (of course, I also wanted to cover Frank Zappa's "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee&quot .
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On that same excellent album (her third, 1973's "Takin' My Time&quot , she sang my second-favorite
song of hers ever -- Mose Allison's "Everybody's Cryin' Mercy). Both videos are below.
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BTW, in the REMOTE possibility someday that I'm wrong about being Fucking Immortal, I want
to be buried in Junior Wells' oufit from the second video. And don't forget the hat.
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PLEASE don't forget the hat!!!
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I could LOSE myself in Bonnie's dimples.
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[In_The_Wind]

9. I won't forget the hat. However I feel confidant that Kali will remember it too!

I never did anything that rehab would help. No drug or alcohol problem.
I am addicted to love, strong secure gentle men.
I'll never look for a recovery program for that enjoyable pastime.


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The tank top is from Hog's Breath Saloon in Key West.

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Late yesterday afternoon in clothes that are a few sizes too big cause thermals feel better under big clothes.

Husband #3 is a huge Zappa fan.

[solara]

10. I love Bonnie too, always have

One of my favorites is "Too Soon To Tell" but alas I cannot find a video to share

[In_The_Wind]

15. Here ya go .........

[solara]

20. Thanks, I found this one too.. but it's not Bonnie..

I was lookin for Bonnie singing her song

If I can find it, I will send you my cover of this tune, though it isn't on YouTube

[mikeytherat]

14. Had a band in the '90s that ran Zappa's "Catholic Girls" into Spinal Tap's "Big Bottom."

Big Bottom had three of us on bass, drummer on percussion (especially a child's toy xylophone). Good times.

mikey_the_rat

[Moondog]

16. That's a fact.

[In_The_Wind]

18. Yes. It is a fact. Redheads are teh hot!

[Flaxbee]

11. I love Bonnie. Love love love her. Really like her take on Gerry Rafferty's

Right Down the Line on her latest, but I've been listening to her for decades.

[nolabear]

12. One of my heroes, front ways, back ways, top to toes.

Stories later; got to go to work. But I'll be humming.

[HarveyDarkey]

13. She and Emmylou Harris

two women that have got even more beautiful with age. I'm in love with both of them.
in their younger days, speaking of Little Feat:

[DFW]

17. I first heard and met Bonnie Raitt in 1970

She and some other locals (Boston at the time) were doing some kind of benefit concert at our school.

The other two acts were OK, but she just blew me away. Completely and totally. She must have been all of 20.

I asked her if she had any recordings out. She answered, "Oh, no, I'm nowhere near that stage yet." That fall I entered college and she opened for a Cat Stevens concert on our campus. I went to see her, and everyone else went to see Cat Stevens. Waiting in line to get in, people were all talking about Cat Stevens, and I said that's nothing, just wait until you hear the opening act. No one had heard of her in Philadelphia yet (they would soon enough), and asked what was so special about her. Afterward, they all asked, "how in the world did you know about her?" How, indeed?

In the meantime, I've seen her in Cape Cod and Düsseldorf, and she just gets better and better and better.

[Mr.Bill]

19. One of the sexiest songs I've ever heard

Love Me Like A Man