North Hollywood, Calif. BONNIE RAITT started her new album, ''Slipstream'' -- her first since 2005, and her first on her own label, Redwing -- last year in a basement in South Pasadena, Calif.: at the home studio of the songwriter and producer Joe Henry. The studio has low ceilings, exposed brick and stone walls, casual floral-patterned chairs and...
In 1979, in the dark freeze of the cold war and six months after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa., they packed Madison Square Garden for a series of ''No Nukes'' concerts that seemed to echo a generation's fear of atomic Armageddon. Now, the musicians, Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash and Jackson Browne, aging,...

Every so often at this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival over the weekend, musicians would announce that they were finally back in their old homes after being displaced for a more than a year by Hurricane Katrina. The queen of New Orleans soul, Irma Thomas, returned to her house two weeks ago; Jean Knight, who had the hit ''Mr. Big...
Bonnie Raitt (født 8. november 1949) er amerikansk sanger og guitarist. Siden hun udsendte sit debutalbum i 1971, har hun haft noget nær monopol som kvindelig blues-slideguitarist med et repertoire bestående af 1930'ernes Robert Johnson-sange og nyere sange med såvel folk- som countrypræg. Hendes stemme er hæs og karakteristisk, hendes guitarspil indtrængende, som det bl.a. høres i samspillet med bluesveteranen John Lee Hooker på dennes album The Healer (1989). Hun toppede 1990 den amerikanske hitliste med albummet Nick of Time (1989).