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...Bonnie Raitt breezes into my hotel room, ignores the two chairs I've set up to talk, and plops down on my bed, Doc Martens and all. She pulls two pillows from under the cover to prop up her back and then catches herself. "Oh," she says with an apologetic grimace. "These are your pillows...
...home at 14 to make music in Memphis, Tenn., and didn't stop until 1997--more than 100 albums later. In 1989 Hooker won his first of four Grammy Awards for a version of his 1951 million-selling single, I'm in the Mood, which he rerecorded with Bonnie Raitt. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at last year's Grammys...
...Dylan shared the bill with Hooker. Bruce Springsteen, Ry Cooder and others have all paid tribute to Hooker, in songs, in print, in spirit. The poet Langston Hughes once lamented that "they've taken my blues and gone." Not with Hooker. He played duets with Van Morrison, with Bonnie Raitt, with Keith Richards, with Los Lobos and Santana. He made sure to be seen alongside the new, more popular artists who had borrowed from his work. If you wanted to take Hooker's blues, you had to take Hooker with...
KATHIE LEE I wrote two songs yesterday with [producer Gen Rubin]. One of them is very Bonnie Raitt-ish, called Heart of a Woman, [about] what women really want. I did all these magazine covers for 15 years, and my face has changed, my figure's changed, God knows my hair has changed, but on the covers of all these magazines, the same questions: how to have five orgasms a day, how to get him to give you what you really want. You want the same thing your partner wants, to be accepted for who you are. I wrote another...
...Streisand 3. Puff, the Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul, and Mary 4. My Song - Elton John 5. 10,000 Miles - Mary Chapin Carpenter 6. Landslide - Fleetwood Mac 7. Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland 8. Smooth - Santana 9. Classical Gas - Mason Williams 10. I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt...