Bonnie Raitt
She has been successfully operating in the music industry for 50 years. Just like wine, with age, it gets better and better. Just look at how it moves on stage. A small character with a well-worn Loss, gracefully named “Brownie”, can make a real fire.
Although she grew up on a diet consisting of Jack Daniels and music created by Mississippi Fred McDowell, her work was not limited only to the blues. Ballads “I Can not Make You Love Me”, which gained fame thanks to a cover made by Adele, is still an inseparable element of Bonnie’s concerts.
Her album Slipstream, released in 2012, was the first album that appeared after 7 years of publishing break. We did not have to wait so long for the next album. In 2016 the Dig In Deep album was released: a magical mix of rock, R & B, blues, and characteristic Bonnie-style guitar slides. Goose skin guaranteed!
Raitt has received ten Grammy Awards. She is listed as number 50 in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and number 89 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
Albums
1971 Bonnie Raitt
1972 Give It Up
1972 Sigma Sound Studios 72
1973 Takin’ My Time
1973 Sofa Blues [With Little Feat]
1974 Streetlights
1975 Home Plate
1977 Sweet Forgiveness
1979 The Glow
1982 Green Light
1986 Nine Lives
1989 Nick of Time
1991 Luck of the Draw
1994 Longing in Their Hearts
1995 Road Tested [live]
1998 Fundamental
2002 Silver Lining
2005 Souls Alike
2006 Bonnie Raitt & Friends
2012 Slipstream
2016 Dig in Deep
Roy Rogers
Rogers was born in California in 1950. He started playing the guitar when he was 12 years old. He already fell in love with the blues, and his masters became Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker and B.B. King. These influences can be heard in his music to this day. Rogers’ blues is very rhythmical. But at the same time sophisticated, mainly from the guitar technique. Rogers also plays slide on electric and acoustic guitars. However, instrumental fireworks are given with such grace and lightness that they do not obscure the most important: good fun.
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