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...BONNIE RAITT AND JACKSON BROWNE. Bonnie Raitt dropped out of Radcliffe for records and roadtrips, and has become one of the finest and most versatile rock and blues singers around. She handles six-string, National Steel, and bottleneck guitars with equal grace. She can take even flimsy material and transform it into rousing, gutsy blues...
Jackson Browne's songs are bouncy, and if you listen to them closely, dull. But he is at least energetic and probably will not detract from what should be a first-Raitt concert...
ALSO: Folk singer Mike Seeger plays Kirkland House Sunday, sponsored by the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston...Every Monday saxophonist and all-around reed-player John Payne stirs up some fine jazz at the Oxford Ale House. Payne almost stole the show two Springs ago from Bonnie Raitt and Peter Johnson in a Sanders Theater free concert. He's one of the great sidemen on Raitt's Give It Up album...
Paul Butterfield's Better Days. I've got Butter at the top of this bill only out of loyalty. If you're going, go to see Bonnie Raitt, a woman who plays the blues very well, and hope she plays "waring Blender Blues," and see Little Feat, talented, but less than heralded. As for Butter, hope Better Days has improved over their appearance of last summer, when Amos Garret couldn't play a simple blues phrase on guitar, and old folkie Geoff Muldaur proved he could no more sing the blues than Diana Ross can sing Billie Holiday...
Paul Butterfield's Better Days. Saturday, April 21. The Orpheum Theater. At 7:30 p.m. With Bonnie Raitt and Little Feat...