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Music Appreciation

FailureToCommunicate

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1. I road in a car with Bonnie Raitt from a train station to a concert on Long Island years...

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Wed Feb 17, 2021, 02:33 PM

Feb 2021

ago. It was a looong drive and I was squeezed next to her in the back seat, with some of her band members at the time.

We chatted some and she sang bits of some songs she was going to sing that night.

My first impression (having not heard of her before) was Big whup, another young white girl trying to sound like she had a hard life and was singing the blues.

Boy did I turn out to be so so wrong.

Bonnie is great, and has a lifetime of hit recordings, and zillions of admirers to back that up.

NOW, I'm a big fan, with only a tale of a brief brush with her when she was just starting out.

Thanks for posting this, and for the memory it brought back.

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I road in a car with Bonnie Raitt from a train station to a concert on Long Island years... FailureToCommunicate Feb 2021 #1

PLEASE tell me that was when she was asked how her backup band was and she replied ... marble falls Feb 2021 #2