Bonnie bought land out on Bald Eagle Lake in White Bear Lake. She was playing her grandfather's slide guitar by age ten, and owned a red Guild gut-string acoustic. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, NPR One, RSS, Spotify, StitcherThe Current Rewind is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment's Arts and Culture Heritage Fund. It was a big free-for-all every night. Select from premium Bonnie Raitt of the highest quality.
They both said, "We've got some friends back in Minneapolis that might be right up your alley. Andrea Swensson: The blues and folk singer Spider John Koerner has been one of the West Bank's most visible musicians ever since. and other fifties hits from the Great White Way. Andrea Swensson: Saxophonist Eugene Hoffman had dropped out of the University of Minnesota, and began playing with all sorts of musicians on the West Bank in the mid-sixties. At fourteen, she became a blues devotee, and as a teenager she got involved with folk music. Clave didn't sound good. Spider John Koerner: The reason she got hooked up with Dave Ray's outfit, and so with Willie, might've been at my suggestion, because I don't think she knew the scene out here particularly before she met me. Minneapolis also lost Willie Murphy in January 2019. Part of it is being raised in a musical family that had a broad range of tastes. Bonnie Raitt: I have a lot of people that actually live out on the lake that come backstage and say hi to me in different places. Listen Live, Acoustic, Americana and Roots By the summer of 1971, Warner Bros. Records, who specialized in singer-songwriters like her, was ready to put her out in the world. So when you're recording, especially if it's going to be the whole band, you have drums, bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, horns, piano, lead vocal, background vocal. We just wanted this little laid back thing to the guitar and Bonnie's singing. There were these cabins. Andrea Swensson: For this episode of The Current Rewind, we spoke with several of the musicians who played on Bonnie Raitt's self-titled album from 1971, as well as a couple of writers and Raitt's bass player from the seventies.
So she wasn't just coasting or loafing. Thanks to Folk Alley and Bonnie Raitt for giving us permission to use archived interview audio, and thanks to Willie Murphy for all the music. But today, we're zooming in on the early years of Bonnie Raitt. The other night we just played down here in San Diego County, and somebody came up and said, "I used to live down the street from where you made your first album." Andrea Swensson: Bonnie Raitt was born in Burbank, California, but she moved east while her father sang his way through a slate of hit musicals: "Oklahoma!," "Carousel," "Annie Get Your Gun," and "Kiss Me Kate." She'd get up—super cute, and she had that incredible voice—beautiful voice. It was a great place to come and hang. It is a production of Minnesota Public Radio's The Current. He's driving a Cadillac, and A.C. Reed drove himself, and Junior had a driver, Bob, and so whoever's idea it was, was to put the Cadillacs like that in a V, and for everybody to stand in the V of the Cadillacs. He had no idea that she was a guitarist, much less a serious guitarist, and then heard her play bottleneck and was really impressed and instantly took her seriously. And that's how Bonnie Raitt came to the West Bank neighborhood of Minneapolis, also known as Cedar-Riverside—because that's where she could go to find other musicians who were in the habit of ignoring genre rules and going for the gut, just like she did. I had known Willie Murphy since high school and didn't like him a whole lot.
Maurice Jacox: In the early days, you could have a seven or eight piece band playing for $200.
Freebo: It was her suggestion to play tuba on that, and so somehow—I don't remember who had the tuba, but I borrowed it from somebody and wound up playing tuba on each of her first six records.
[audience laughs, applauds]. We used to play at the Triangle where the horn section would walk down the bar playing and doing kicks. So we've relied on a couple of old interviews—one with NPR's Ann Powers in 2012 and one with The Current's Bill DeVille in 2013—to get her side of the story. We lived in the cabins there at the camp, and we waterskied and played volleyball and ate great food. They were dealing drugs on the corner—all kinds of people.
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Eugene Hoffman: We were making almost nothing. Andrea Swensson: After a long battle with brain cancer, Steve Raitt passed away in 2009. The Raitt family were practicing Quakers, and as Eugene Hoffman saw firsthand, social activism has remained a bedrock part of Bonnie's life. Bobby Vandell: I promised you that I would read to you what Bonnie Raitt wrote. At the 2012 Americana Music Conference, Bonnie told writer Ann Powers that her eclectic tastes were deeply rooted. We tried to do "I Ain't Blue" and come up with a sound that would be appropriate percussion, and we ended up taking—since we'd been playing badminton—taking the shuttlecock from badminton, and a 16 oz. That summer, she recorded her debut album on Lake Minnetonka with a motley crew of Minneapolis musicians, making music and commotion in a wild recording experience that she calls … These days, it's home to private residences and a yacht club. They were, of course, the Bumblebees, accompanied by A. C. Reed on sax. Jesus Christ, he could see things going up in smoke. ", Bonnie Raitt: And Warner Bros. said, "You know what? Most of the people were fairly well educated and kindred spirits, open in their musical tastes, and open to different ideas and different music. Maurice Jacox: We'd stay there during the week, and we'd come in and do our gig. If you left your wallet on the bar there was a 50/50 chance somebody would bring it back to you rather than getting picked up by somebody. Most of the band seriously abused alcohol. Raitt was born in Burbank, California on November 8, 1949. Her full name is Bonnie Lynn Raitt. We were famous for that. I think it's a really good album. Andrea Swensson: Maurice Jacox chimed in on the bar scene, too. He had begun leading jam sessions, both in Cedar-Riverside and at his home near 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue, and in 1970, he convened a meeting. Our producer Cecilia Johnson was at that show at the Cabooze in February 2019, and she watched host Bobby Vandell read that message for the crowd. Bonnie Raitt Home Tour News Images Music Activism Bio Social Store. All rights reserved. Maurice Jacox: We went to St.
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