Bonnie Raitt
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Bonnie Raitt est remarquable parce qu’elle a accepté que son activisme freine sa carrière de musicienne pendant de longues années. Depuis qu’elle a eu un succès la projetant parmi les intouchables elle a largement professionnalisé son activisme.
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter and slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country. In 1989 after several years of critical acclaim but little commercial success she had a major return to form with the release of her album Nick of Time. The following two albums Luck of the Draw (1991) and Longing in Their Hearts (1994) were also multi-million sellers generating several hit singles, including “Something to Talk About”, “Love Sneakin’ Up On You”, and the ballad “I Can’t Make You Love Me” (with Bruce Hornsby on piano).
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Raitt’s political involvement goes back to the early seventies. Her 1972 album “Give it up” had a dedication “to the people of North Vietnam ...” printed on the back.
Raitt’s web site urges fans to learn more about preserving the environment. She was a founding member of Musicians United for Safe Energy in 1979 and a catalyst for the larger anti-nuclear movement, becoming involved with groups like the Abalone Alliance and Alliance for Survival.
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Despite her personal and professional problems, Raitt continued to tour and participate in political activism. In 1985, she sang and appeared in the video of “Sun City”, the anti-apartheid record written and produced by guitarist Steven Van Zandt . Along with her participation in Farm Aid and Amnesty International concerts, Raitt traveled to Moscow in 1987 to participate in the first joint Soviet/American Peace Concert, later shown on the Showtime television network. Also in 1987, Raitt organized a benefit in Los Angeles for Countdown ’87 to Stop Contra Aid. The benefit featured herself along with musicians Don Henley, Herbie Hancock, Holly Near and others.
Little Steven’s SunCity Video
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The Associated Press reports::
Winding up her summer tour across Europe, Bonnie Raitt drew thunderous applause at the [2004] Stockholm Jazz Festival for dedicating a classic to President George Bush.
We’re gonna sing this for George Bush because he’s out of here, people!" Raitt crowed Tuesday night before she launched into the opening licks of “Your Good Thing (Is About to End),” a cover that was featured on her 1979 album, “The Glow”...
Raitt’s comments resulted in a round of applause and even whistles from among the estimated 3,000 concertgoers at the Swedish capital’s annual jazz event held on the banks of the downtown Skeppsholmen island.
Swedes are skeptical of Bush, and the Scandinavian country refused to support his efforts in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Bonnie Raitt – In The Nick Of Time
▻https://strathdee.wordpress.com/2013/04/13
Bonnie recalls:
I used to come east from California to Camp Regis. It was run by Quakers, but most of the people there were Jewish and progressive. The counselors went to Colleges like Antioch and Brandeis and Swarthmore and were into the civil rights, peace movement thing. I went there every summer from ’58 until about ’65. It counteracted the whole beach boy scene in California which I couldn’t stand. I started wearing peace symbols around my neck and listening to an Odetta record what one of the counselors had brought up in ’59, and I learned to play guitar from that. Then I heard Joan Baez and fell in love. I wanted to pierce my ears and grow thin cheekbones. When I heard the Blues at Newport ’63 album, I wanted to get away from camp and go to the folk festival, but I was too young. I was thirteen.
When I heard “Candy Man” by Mississippi John Hurt on that album, I went, “What is that?” I’d been doing a lot of Odetta and Joan Baez stuff, but when I heard that I went – “I don’t know what that stuff is, but this guy is so cute, his voice is so cute, and his guitar is so pretty…” I just had to learn about it. I couldn’t figure out the tuning because I just wasn’t versed in guitar. I didn’t ever look at a guitar book, and I didn’t know anybody who played that stuff. I found out later that Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder were all in L.A. at the time and that there was a little burgeoning folk scene going on at Ash Grove, but I was living on top of Cold Water Canyon and was still only thirteen or fourteen.
By the time I was in the last two years of high school, I went to a Quaker school in Poughkeepsie, New Your, and that’s where I started to hear about the Club 47. I just couldn’t wait. I was playing guitar, and I was a real folkie. It wasn’t that I wanted to play music so much, it’s just that I wanted to be around it. So I chose Radcliffe because of Cambridge [Mass.] and the Club 47 and went there in the fall of ;67. I was a regular little freshman, wearing my tights, but I soon started listening to the Harvard radio station, WHRB, and found out that some of the guys like David Gessner and Jack Fertell were connected with the folk and blues circuit, …”
The above quotes are an excerpt from the book “Baby, Let me Follow You Down – The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years” by Eric Von Schmidt and Jim Rooney.
Contras
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The contras (some references use the capitalized form, “Contras”) is a label given to the various rebel groups that were active from 1979 through to the early 1990s in opposition to the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua.
avec John Lee Hooker : In The Mood
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PADfOighk4k
ACTIVISM | Bonnie Raitt
▻http://www.bonnieraitt.com/activism
Bonnie is as known for her lifelong commitment to social activism as she is for her music.
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She also continues to work on issues of social justice and human rights, as well as royalty reform and music education.
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Bonnie has worked with and supported many non-profit organizations over the past 40+ years. Thank you for learning more about what these groups are up to. This list will be updated often!