Back then, Bonnie was just starting out as a guitarist and singer, recording a string of LPs that mixed new tunes with classic blues womenвЂ™s songs. In the 1970вЂ™s, Bonnie sought out the elderly singer in Detroit, and they sang together at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival. Nov 1995.Sippie Wallace was definitely an inspiration to Bonnie Raitt. Records roster for not selling enough copies of her two previous albums, The Glow (1979) and Green Light (1982).Select an album to explore. Johnny Lee Schell - Wikipedia In 1983, Raitt was dropped from the Warner Bros. His inclusion on albums such as Bonnie Raitts Green Light (1982) and Nick of Time (1989) has lent him his bearing in American pop music culture.

He toured and did concerts during my whole childhood and is in fact still out on the road at 85. My dad of course is John Raitt, the Broadway star of Carousel and Pajama Game. Sites:Bonnie Raitt: Well I come from a very musical family, my mom has a degreeвЂ“a MasterвЂ™s in musicвЂ“and she was my dadвЂ™s accompanist and music director. Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 (Performer).

I mean because I was going to Harvard and there was a very terrific radio station, great blues show, and I used to listen to it all the time when I was studying. James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson.Nick Spitzer: I wonder in all this world of music you came up through, how did you really get directly exposed to some of the blues performers that influenced you and you appeared with on stage later as time passed? I mean, you don't necessarily meet Fred McDowell or Junior Wells unless you вЂ¦BR: Oh yeah, it was incredible luck. Here she is sounding wise beyond her years on Sippie WallaceвЂ™s Women Be Wise.An American music icon, her first nine studio albums have sold 35 million. And thatвЂ™s why I picked up the guitar, was folk music.Raitt released her first, self-titled album in 1971, at the age of 22, sounding relaxed and confident on an eclectic collection of songs (from sources ranging from Robert Johnson to Buffalo Springfield and The Marvelettes) with tasteful folk and blues arrangements. Fell in love with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.

And so Sippie, I got to meet Sippie Wallace, and she was the one that I really would have to say I was the closest to. But for me at 25 to have to look into his eyes and say, вЂњWell, I think I have to headline.вЂќ That was a painful lesson in sociology when white blues artists become more financially viable in this culture than the originals sometimes.NS: How about the classic Blues women, on some of the early recordings you did the Sippie Wallace song and a few other things.BR: Well I didnвЂ™t get to know tooвЂ“ most of the old classic blues artists had passed away. I said, well the person I really want to play with is Muddy Waters. Hey, would you have gone back for your senior year when you could have that?BR: It was actually quite awkward in the mid 70вЂ™s when my fame eclipsed theirs. And I just happened to know somebody that booked all these blues acts. And then my life kind of escalated because at that point, I just happened to be everybodyвЂ™s cheapest, most versatile opening act because I could carry my own guitar, I didnвЂ™t need a band, didnвЂ™t care about being a star, or getting paid a lot.

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