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Johnnie Walker talks to Grammy Award winner Bonnie Raitt about her 45-year career, including her work with everyone from John Lee Hooker and Ray Charles to Bruce Hornsby.

Ten time Grammy winner and hugely respected musician, singer-songwriter and blues star Bonnie Raitt talks through her 45 year career, including her work with everyone from John Lee Hooker and Ray Charles to Paul Brady, John Prine and Bruce Hornsby.

She takes us through her early days as a civil rights protester, daughter of a Broadway singer and Quaker, being a student at Harvard and meeting John Lee Hooker and other blues giants at the age of 19 to her success with Luck Of The Draw, Nick Of Time, I Can't Make You Love Me and Thing Called Love, among many others.

Bonnie also brings us up to date with 2012's Slipstream and her twentieth album Dig In Deep.

57 minutes

Last on

Wed 28 Dec 2016 17:05
91热爆 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bonnie Raitt & Bruce Hornsby

    Thing Called Love (live)

    • Road Tested.
    • Capitol records.
    • 1.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    Undone

    • Dig in Deep.
    • Redwing Music.
    • 007.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    Nick Of Time

  • Bonnie Raitt

    What You're Doin' to Me

    • Dig in Deep.
    • Redwing Music.
    • 005.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    Mighty Tight Woman

    • Bonnie Raitt.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 2.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    No Way To Treat A Lady

    • The Bonnie Raitt Collection.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 20.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    I Can't Make You Love Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Ray Charles & Bonnie Raitt

    Do I Ever Cross Your Mind

    • Genius Loves Company.
    • EMI.
    • 6.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    Good Man, Good Woman

    • Luck Of The Draw.
    • EMI.
    • 2.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    If You Need Somebody

    • Dig in Deep.
    • Redwing Music.
    • 008.

  • John Prine & Bonnie Raitt

    Angel From Montgomery

    • The Bonnie Raitt Collection.
    • Warner Music.
    • 9.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    Dimming Of The Day

    • Longing In Their Hearts.
    • EMI.
    • 7.

  • Toots & The Maytals & Bonnie Raitt

    True Love Is Hard To Find

    • True Love.
    • V2.
    • 2.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    I Will Not Be Broken

    • I Will Not Be Broken.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    I Feel The Same

    • Takin My Time.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 7.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    The Ones We Couldn't Be

    • Dig in Deep.
    • Redwing Music.
    • 012.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 30 May 2016 20:00
    91热爆 Radio 2
  • Wed 28 Dec 2016 17:05
    91热爆 Radio 2