History Music / BonnieRaitt

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: "I Can't Make You Love Me", again.

* SelfTitledAlbum

Discography ([[LongRunners/{{Music}} get ready for a]] LongList):

* CareerResurrection: A NoHitWonder in the 1970s, she went into the wilderness during the 1980s before making a major comeback in the early 1990s with ''Nick of Time'', to the point that she became more popular in TheNineties than she was in TheSeventies. Most of her best known songs are post-comeback.

* SomethingBlues: "Walking Blues"
* SpiritualSuccessor: For a time, Susan Tedeschi was billed as Raitt's spiritual successor - similarly a white female blues vocalist/guitarist with pop leanings - but Tedeschi has since moved to fronting the massive Tedeschi Trunks Band, embracing more of a southern rock sound in the process.

* CoolOldLady: Even in her sixties, she's still a major concert draw whose albums debut in the top ten.

At the age of twenty, Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949), the daughter of famed musical theatre actor John Raitt, put a career in the political arena on hold to tour with Music/TheRollingStones and never looked back.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Wah She Go Do'' is a calypso number on a blues album.

* SkunkStripe

The Grammy-winning guitar player and vocalist has been a fixture in the music industry since the early [[TheSeventies 70's]], releasing critically acclaimed [[CriticalDissonance (if not terribly commercially successful)]] albums throughout that decade and into the next before a cold streak in the mid eighties threatened to derail her career for good. The self-styled comeback effort ''[[MeaningfulName Nick of Time]]'' did all that and more, not only regaining her critical standing but setting the stage for a run as one of the most popular acts of [[TheNineties the next decade]]. The 1991 follow-up, ''Luck of the Draw'' featured her two most famous songs, "Something To Talk About" and "I Can't Make You Love Me".

At the age of twenty, Bonnie Raitt (born November 8, 1949), the daughter of famed musical theatre actor John Raitt, put a career in the political arena on hold to tour with Music/TheRollingStones and never looked back.

[[caption-width-right:346:[[DoubleEntendre A mighty tight woman]], [[JackOfAllTrades in everything she does.]] ]]

At the age of twenty, '''Bonnie Raitt''' (born November 8, 1949), the daughter of famed musical theatre actor John Raitt, put a career in the political arena on hold to tour with Music/TheRollingStones and never looked back.

The Grammy-winning guitar player and vocalist has been a fixture in the music industry since the early [[TheSeventies 70's]], releasing critically acclaimed [[CriticalDissonance (if not terribly commercially successful)]] albums throughout that decade and into the next before a cold streak in the mid eighties threatened to derail her career for good. The self-styled comeback effort ''[[MeaningfulName Nick Of Time]]'' did all that and more, not only regaining her critical standing but setting the stage for a run as one of the most popular acts of [[TheNineties the next decade]]. The 1991 follow-up, ''Luck Of The Draw'' featured her two most famous songs, ''Something To Talk About'' and ''I Can't Make You Love Me''.

Rolling Stone readers voted her to their lists of the greatest singers (50th) and guitarists (89th) of all time.

* ''Nick Of Time'' (1989)
* ''Luck Of The Draw'' (1991)

->''"[[LampshadeHanging I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist...]]"''

At the age of twenty, '''Bonnie Raitt''' (born November 8, 1949), the daughter of famed musical theatre actor John Raitt, put a career in the political arena on hold to tour with TheRollingStones and never looked back.

At the age of twenty, '''Bonnie Raitt''' (born November 8, 1949), the daughter of famed musical theatre actor John Raitt, put a career in the political arena on hold to tour with TheRollingStones and never looked back. The Grammy-winning guitar player and vocalist has been a fixture in the music industry since the early [[TheSeventies 70's]], releasing critically acclaimed [[CriticalDissonance (if not terribly commercially successful)]] albums throughout that decade and into the next before a cold streak in the mid eighties threatened to derail her career for good. The self-styled comeback effort ''[[MeaningfulName Nick Of Time]]'' did all that and more, not only regaining her critical standing but setting the stage for a run as one of the most popular acts of [[TheNineties the next decade]]. The 1991 follow-up, ''Luck Of The Draw'' featured her two most famous songs, ''Something To Talk About'' and ''I Can't Make You Love Me''.

At the age of twenty, '''Bonnie Raitt''' – the daughter of famed musical theatre actor John Raitt – put a career in the political arena on hold to tour with TheRollingStones and never looked back. The Grammy-winning guitar player and vocalist has been a fixture in the music industry since the early [[TheSeventies 70's]], releasing critically acclaimed [[CriticalDissonance (if not terribly commercially successful)]] albums throughout that decade and into the next before a cold streak in the mid eighties threatened to derail her career for good. The self-styled comeback effort ''[[MeaningfulName Nick Of Time]]'' did all that and more, not only regaining her critical standing but setting the stage for a run as one of the most popular acts of [[TheNineties the next decade]]. The 1991 follow-up, ''Luck Of The Draw'' featured her two most famous songs, ''Something To Talk About'' and ''I Can't Make You Love Me''.

At the age of twenty, '''Bonnie Raitt''' - the daughter of famed musical theatre actor John Raitt - put a career in the political arena on hold to tour with TheRollingStones and never looked back. The Grammy-winning guitar player and vocalist has been a fixture in the music industry since the early [[TheSeventies 70's]], releasing critically acclaimed [[CriticalDissonance (if not terribly commercially successful)]] albums throughout that decade and into the next before a cold streak in the mid eighties threatened to derail her career for good. The self-styled comeback effort ''[[MeaningfulName Nick Of Time]]'' did all that and more, not only regaining her critical standing but setting the stage for a run as one of the most popular acts of [[TheNineties the next decade]]. The 1991 follow-up, ''Luck Of The Draw'' featured her two most famous songs, ''Something To Talk About'' and ''I Can't Make You Love Me''.

-->''[[LampshadeHanging I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist...]]''

* ''Give It Up'' (1972)

* ''[[TroubledProduction Nine Lives]]'' (1986)
* ''[[BreakthroughHit Nick Of Time]]'' (1989)

* BreakthroughHit: After a few false starts in the late seventies/early eighties, ''Nick Of Time'' finally shot her to mainstream success.

At the age of twenty, '''Bonnie Raitt''' put a career in the political arena on hold to tour with TheRollingStones and never looked back. The Grammy-winning guitar player and vocalist has been a fixture in the music industry since the early [[TheSeventies 70's]], releasing critically acclaimed [[CriticalDissonance (if not terribly commercially successful)]] albums throughout that decade and into the next before a cold streak in the mid eighties threatened to derail her career for good. The self-styled comeback effort ''[[MeaningfulName Nick Of Time]]'' did all that and more, not only regaining her critical standing but setting the stage for a run as one of the most popular acts of [[TheNineties the next decade]]. The 1991 follow-up, ''Luck Of The Draw'' featured her two most famous songs, ''Something To Talk About'' and ''I Can't Make You Love Me''.

* ''[[MagnumOpus Give It Up]]'' (1972)

* ''[[DevelopmentHell Nine Lives]]'' (1986)

* AceCustom: The only female guitarist with a signature series Stratocaster to her name. Her touring guitar, a '65 Strat with a later body, may also count.

* CoolOldLady

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Takin' My Time'' features a calypso number, of all things.
* SpiritualSuccessor: For a time, Susan Tedeschi was billed as hers, though Raitt remains active and Tedeschi has gone in a slightly different direction.
* ToughActToFollow: Her first three albums are still generally considered her best, with arguments for ''Nick Of Time'' and ''Luck Of The Draw'' here and there.