Artist
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt is a country artist from California, USA. 67 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Country · California, USA · Best country albums
- 4.0 /5
- 1 rating
- 67
- Releases
- 1971–2025
- Active years
Discography
59
Most popular
Nick of Time
1989 · 11 tracks
Luck of the Draw
1991
Dig in Deep
2016
The Bonnie Raitt Collection
1990
Road Tested
1995
Streetlights
1974
Longing in Their Hearts
1994
Slipstream
2012
Souls Alike
2005
Fundamental
1998
Takin My Time
1973
Sweet Forgiveness
1977
Silver Lining
2002
The Glow
1979
Just Like That...
2022
Essential Classics, Vol. 844: Bonnie Raitt
2025
Blow My Blues Away (Live Long Island '72)
2025
Feel Like Blowin' (Live Virginia '77)
2025
Cryin' Mercy (Live, Sausalito '73)
2024
The Record Plant 1973 (Live)
2024
Don't Be No Fool (Live San Francisco '76)
2023
Oakland 1989
2023
Big Easy Blues (Live New Orleans '77)
2022
Cryin' Mercy
2022
Alright At Midnight (Live 1976)
2022
Rainbow Room Blues (Philly LIVE Broadcast '72 Remastered)
2020
Woman Be Wise (Live)
2020
Finest Lovin' Man (Live)
2020
Shadow On The Faces (Live, Santa Cruz City Park 1995)
2020
In Concert (Live)
2020
Live in Concert (Live)
2020
Any Day Woman (Live)
2020
Can't Find My Way Back Home (Live)
2019
Long Way From Home (Live)
2019
Rollin' & Tumblin' (Live)
2019
Under The Falling Sky (Live)
2019
Playlist: The Best of the Warner Bros. Years (2016 Remaster)
2016
In Interview with Robin Ross DJ
2015
Washington DC Blues
2015
Rock Elite: Best of (Bonnie Raitt Collection)
2015
In Concert (Bonnie Raitt Collection)
2015
Folk Cult: Best of (Bonnie Raitt Collection)
2015
Radio On Stage (Bonnie Raitt Collection)
2014
FM Broadcasts (Bonnie Raitt Collection)
2014
Bonnie Raitt And Friends
2006
The Best of Bonnie Raitt
2003
The Best Of Bonnie Raitt On Capitol 1989-2003
2003
Give It Up (2008 Remaster)
2002
Green Light (2008 Remaster)
2002
Home Plate (2008 Remaster)
2002
Bonnie Raitt (2008 Remaster)
2001
Nine Lives (2008 Remaster)
2001
Nine Lives
1986
Green Light
1982
Home Plate
1975
Sofa Blues
1973
Give It Up
1972
Rollin' and Tumblin' (Live)
1972
Bonnie Raitt
1971
Popular tracks
Singles & EPs
8
Made Up Mind
Single · 2022
Livin' for the Ones
Single · 2022
Something's Got a Hold of My Heart
Single · 2022
Call It Home
Single · 2018
Turn Me Around (Live)
Single · 2017
Need You Tonight (Live from The Orpheum Theatre Boston, MA/2016)
Single · 2016
Not The Only One (Live From Pensacola, FL Oct. 20, 2009)
Single · 2013
Right Down The Line
Single · 2012
Appears on
3Releases by other artists featuring Bonnie Raitt.
Featured tracks
3Collaborators
3
Upcoming shows
Past shows
Community
More about Bonnie Raitt
Honors
9
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
- — · star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
×1
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- 2000
- MusiCares Person of the Year
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MusiCares Person of the Year
- 1992
- Grammy Award for Album of the Year
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Grammy Award for Album of the Year
- —
- Grammy Award for Song of the Year
×1
Grammy Award for Song of the Year
- 2003
×1
Kennedy Center Honors
- 2024
- Maple Blues Awards
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Maple Blues Awards
- —
- Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance
×1
Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance
- 2012
- honorary doctor of the Berklee College of Music
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honorary doctor of the Berklee College of Music
- —
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About
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter and slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible recordings in the 1990s including "Nick of Time", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneakin' Up on You", and the slow ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me". Raitt has received nine Grammy Awards in her career and is a lifelong political activist. Raitt, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt and his first wife, pianist Marjorie Haydock, began playing guitar at an early age, something few of her high school female friends did. Later she would become famous for her bottleneck-style guitar playing. "I had played a little at school and at camp", she later recalled in a July 2002 interview. The camp Raitt refers to is Camp Regis-Applejack, located on Upper St. Regis Lake in New York.
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After graduating from Oakwood Friends School in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1967 Raitt entered Radcliffe College as a freshman, majoring in social relations and African studies. "My plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism", Raitt recalled. "I wanted to help undo the damage that Western colonialism had done to native cultures around the world. Cambridge, Massachusetts was a hotbed of this kind of thinking, and I was thrilled." One day, Raitt was told by a friend that blues promoter Dick Waterman was giving an interview at WHRB, Harvard's college radio station. An important figure in the blues revival of the 1960s, Waterman was also a Cambridge resident. Raitt went to see Waterman, and the two soon became friends, "much to the chagrin of my parents, who didn't expect their freshman daughter to be running around with 65-year-old bluesmen," recalled Raitt. "I was amazed by his passion for the music and the integrity with which he managed the musicians." During Raitt's sophomore year, Waterman relocated to Philadelphia, and a number of local musicians he counted among his friends went with him. Raitt had become a strong part of that community, recalling that "... these people had become my friends, my mentors, and though I had every intention of graduating, I decided to take the semester off and move to Philadelphia .... It was an opportunity that young white girls just don't get, and as it turns out, an opportunity that changed everything." By now, Raitt was also playing folk and rhythm and blues clubs in the Boston area, performing alongside established blues legends such as Howlin' Wolf, Sippie Wallace, and Mississippi Fred McDowell, all of whom she met through Waterman.
Bonnie Raitt in brief
- How many Bonnie Raitt releases are on Riffiter?
- 67 releases are catalogued, spanning 1971 to 2025.
- What genre is Bonnie Raitt?
- Bonnie Raitt is catalogued under Country.
- What is the most recent Bonnie Raitt release on Riffiter?
- Essential Classics, Vol. 844: Bonnie Raitt, released in 2025.
- What awards has Bonnie Raitt won?
- Bonnie Raitt has 9 award wins on record, including Hollywood Walk of Fame (1×), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1×), MusiCares Person of the Year (1×).