SUNDAY UNDER COVERS ON A STEAMY SATURDAY NIGHT
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....The humidity is so high its like walking through a rainfall in suspended animation. The kind of steamy still-air night that cries out for lost-soul blues. & right on time Ms Bonnie Raitt strolls in guitar on hand, & wrings the tears outta the smokey night. .......... .........a long time ago....long before the stars were torn down....one could go to a club in worcester MA called Sir Morgan's Cove & see Bonnie Raitt on a very regular basis. A shy girl, tiny with the most refulgent red hair i'd ever seen. She was approachable with a finely tuned bullshit detecter.........but if you talked music & you knew music, she was a lively & animated conversationalist, steeped in the history even as a young woman.. & she could drink. I couldn't...& didn't even try. But i had several good conversations with her back in the day......tho i doubt like hell she'd remember me...she hailed me by name at one time.
Chris Smither is not nearly as well known here as he should be......a fine singer & guitarist, he finds new facets in familiar songs that were always there but invisible ....sorta...Buried in the graveyard of accepted visions. He's also a hell of a songwriter in his own right, covered by a wide range of talents from myriad genres. His Love Me Like A Man, with slight lyrical changes, is suddenly, startlingly, delightfully refocused, reframed. That great devide, that unfathomable gap between the male & female soul, so impossibly wide & ridiculously close is illustrated, illuminated, and rendered in hi-def (as it were)..by Ms Raitt's timeless earthy interpretation.
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Comments (6)
never get tired of this!
refulgent - I see you've been playin' with that thesaurus again!
What ever you do, do not feed him...
I don't remember hearing her before. Thank you for devirginating me into her realm. Song, voice, guitar---all really good.
Sizzling.
Is Spike kidding? Never heard of Bonnie?
Hearing her, not of her. I just remembered hearing one of her albums in the early 1990s.
Dermahrk...you'd be surprised by the amount of forty to fifty somethings that I know who have never heard a Bonnie Raitt song. Hard to believe but true.