Angel From Montgomery

Bonnie Raitt and Ruthie Foster performing John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery".

Gypsy in Me

A new song from Bonnie Raitt, "Gypsy in Me".

Sweet Home Chicago

Bonnie Raitt with Tracy Chapman, Beth Hart and Gary Clark, Jr. performing "Sweet Home Chicago" for Buddy Guy at the Kennedy Center.

Nobody's Fault But Mine

Carolyn Wonderland with Bonnie Raitt performing "Nobody's Fault But Mine".

Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Mavis Staples, Joan Osborne and Bonnie Raitt performing "Will the Circle Be Unbroken".

Burning Down the House

Bonnie Raitt's cover of the Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House".

Used To Rule The World

Bonnie Raitt performing "Used To Rule The World" at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.

Bonnie Raitt and More Friends

There are so many clips of Bonnie Raitt performing with her friends, that I need to do a second post.

"I Don't Want Anything To Change" with Norah Jones



"A Natural Women" with Aretha Franklyn & Gloria Estefan



"In the Mood" with John Lee Hooker

Bonnie Raitt and Friends

Seems like every on wants to perform with Bonnie Raitt. In this post she performs with various friends and relations.

"Will the Circle Be Unbroken" with Mavis Staples



"Love Has No Pride" with Crosby, Stills & Nash



In this clip, from twenty years back, she performs with her father, John Raitt, and the Boston Pops. In his day Bonnie's father was a very successful leading man on Broadway. "Hey There" and "Nick of Time"

Not Cause I Wanted To

A short Jools Holland interview with Bonnie Raitt, and then she performs "Not Cause I Wanted To"—a beautiful song off her latest album.

Trouble in Mind

Four of my favorite singers performing "Trouble in Mind"—Leon Russell, Maria Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt and Willie Nelson.

Three of My Favorite ladies

Three of my favorite ladies, Mavis Staples, Bonnie Raitt, and Maria Muldaur perform "Will The Circle Be Unbroken".

A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan

Complete Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute concert. It is hard to believe he has been dead over 20 years.

Bonnie Raitt performs with:

Bonnie Raitt performs with:

"Love Has No Pride" with Crosby, Stills and Nash

"Night Life" with B.B. King. The song starts a little over 1 minute into the video.

"Feels Like Going Home" with Trisha Yearwood and Jools Holland

Right Down the Line

Here his Bonnie Raitt performing her cover of the 1970's Gerry Rafferty song "Right Down the Line". This song is on her new album Slipstream.

I Can't Make You Love Me

In 1991 Bonnie Raitt released the song "I Can't Make You Love Me" on her Luck of the Draw album. Raitt always picks the best songs to record, and this one—written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin—is one of the very best. It was listed as #8 on a Mojo magazine list of The 100 Greatest Songs Of All Time list, and is #331 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. There have been a number of covers of the song in the last 20 years. In the last year both Adele and Justin Vernon have had very successful covers of the song. Here are videos of a couple versions.

Bonnie Raitt performs the song in 2011. What I like about this clip is that at the beginning you can here several people talking, but just a little into the song you can tell that the entire audience has become silent.



Adele



Justin Vernon form Bon Iver. This version includes part of another Bonnie Raitt song, "Nick of Time"

Dimming of the Day

"Dimming of the Day" has been recorded many times. It is on Alison Krauss' latest album, and I included a preview video in this previous post. This is such a great song that I have decided to post a couple more versions of it.

The song was written by Richard Thompson, so here is a version by Richard, and his then wife, Linda.



Here is Bonnie Raitt, also performing with Richard Thompson.



A final version by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.

John Prine Covers (Duets)

This video was shot during Farm Aid 1985 at Memorial Stadium, University of Illinois. I thought I recognized the South Farms, and so I looked up where Farm Aid 1985 was staged to be sure. This was after I was there so I did not see this in person. Here Bonnie Raitt and Rickee Lee Jones perform "Angel from Montgomery".





From Scotland, here is a video of Natalie Merchant and Michael Stipe doing "Hello In There". I was not there either.





Finally, a more contemporary video of "That's the Way the World Goes Round", performed by Norah Jones and Richard Julian.