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...refrain - sometimes phrased differently, but always the same: "We need God." One of Mtukudzi's best-known songs outside Zimbabwe is Hear Me, Lord (1994), a high-speed ride to heaven on a guitar riff. The rousing plea for divine intervention was covered by American singer Bonnie Raitt. Perhaps better than any other song in his catalog, its lyrics sum up how Zimbabweans, many devoutly Christian like Tuku, feel today: "Help me Lord, I'm feeling low." "Zimbabwe needs God," says Fungisai Zvakanapano, a rising gospel star. "That's where our future is." The future is definitely on Tuku...
Asked if she might find a way to integrate vulnerability and world domination, Twain thinks for a moment. "I've got dreams," she says. "I'd like to do a duet album with all of my favorite artists--Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, Karen Carpenter if she were alive, Etta James." Twain is laughing now. "These are impossibilities, but I'd love it. And I would want it to be originals. What would be really fantastic would be to write songs with all those people. That would be a dream album for me. One dream album...
Club Passim has been a fixture of Harvard Square since the 1960s, when it used to host folk musicians like “Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Bonny Raitt and everyone else you can think of,” according to music operations manager Matthew H. Smith...
With the award, he joined illustrious company—before him, it had gone to John Updike ’54, Bonnie Raitt ’72, Pete Seeger ’40 and Jack Lemmon...
When the gear is packed, Raitt boards the bus. The band travels from venue to venue at night--usually all night. The onboard meal is Indian food; Raitt's desire for leftover tofu was not universal. She presses the spinach dish on everyone. "Try the saag." To unwind, the group plays Name the Worst Band Ever. (Their nominations are strictly off the record.) One by one, Raitt, the other four musicians and two managers slink off to sleep in their separate bunks, each with a curtain for privacy. Raitt loves the routine. "It's like being at camp...