Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticActually, she can make us love her, and Bonnie Raitt has been doing it since her self-titled debut album in 1971.
A slew of Grammys for “Nick of Time” in 1990 spurred a reboot of her career that’s never waned, particularly when it comes to her live appeal.
She just started an eight-month tour behind her 18th studio album, “Just Like That,” another soul-stirring mixture of greasy, good-time blues-rock and heartrending state-of-the-world balladry.How is it, back out on the road?We just played our first date last night in Modesto, and I can’t even tell you — it was all I could do not to just break down, I was so excited.
I was just in the zone again. If you take somebody that’s been on the road for 50 years and then don’t give ‘em a live audience for two and a half years… I had to stop and restart a song last night, because I was playing it at a 1980s Elvis Costello tempo!
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