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  • wow, she is the sweetest thing

  • Joni and Bonnie, enough said.

  • Will McFarlane is the guitarist, Alan Hand on Keys, Dennis Whitted Drums and Freebo on bass

  • Saw her for the first time in a small club in Boulder late 1973, early 1974, can't remember which. I'd liked her first two albums but really hadn't paid much attention to her. She knocked me out of my seat that night, what a talent! 

  • Awesome Awesome Video

    

  • This is too good for words. Anyone know the guitarist? Awesome solo. So genuine.

  • Great, great performance, as always. Brilliant.

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  • @Gyns9

    Freebo is on the bass, fuzzy hair.

  • My wife introduced me to Bonnie's music back in the 70's. Great that I can revisit it now after all these years. I can appreciate it even more now. What an amazing sound. Thanks.

  • bonnie's paid her dues and then some. 

  • Not a commercial bone in Bonnie, its all from the heart..God bless her. I can listen to this song over and over, still feel it in my bones!

    Thanks for posting.

  • Bonnie is such and angel. We're so lucky to be able to luxuriate in her tremendous talent and beauty. Look at the mop on the guy behind her! :-D Fantastic video and version of this gorgeous tune!!!

  • My favorite Bonnie Raitt song, Thanks!

  • What kind of gibson is that ?

  • Sorry - I didn't have time to search this entire thread but WHO IS THAT ON GUITAR ? That solo was very classic rock and "radio-ready" like most others of it's time. Was it Danny Kortchmar ? That was one guy who was born to play guitar hooks for most of popular culture (me included !)

    And thanks for posting the song !

  • Sorry - I didn't have time to search this entire thread but WHO IS THAT ON GUITAR ? That solo was very classic rock and "radio-ready" like most others of it's time. Was it Danny Kortchmar ? That was one guy who was born to play guitar hooks for most of popular culture (me included !)

  • Bonnie looks so beautiful in this video. And I love her voice. I grew up on her along with a lot of other great musicians. Thanks mom and dad. I worry about todays youth with the crap their parents often listen too. Kids in the future will be saying things like, " I grew up on the Insane Clown Posse." I feel bad for them.

  • Bonnie was a goddess even as a child. 1976 was yesterday, it seems, and she's even better today!!!

  • Thanks for posting this.....

    Oh Bonnie! One of the most emotionally powerful songs and voices. Heard her sing this song several times when "Little Feat" was her backup band. Freebo, Lowell George, Billy Payne. Simply does not get better than this

  • I'd almost forgotten what a wonderful song this is; almost, but not quite. Still tender and wonderful after all these years.

  • Bonnie Raitt is a pure inspiration!!

  • Yea that could be payne on keys, this song is amazing!

  • Isn't that Bill Payne from Little Feat on keys? He and Fred Tackett played with Bonnie back then.

  • they don't make em quite like this anymore. She's amazing.

  • too bad they didn't include her guitar in this video, besides a tremendous vocalist she is a phenomenal guitarist.

  • Wow, local Hopewell lad, TJ Tyndall!

  • did she say Give my Bones to Canada?

  • @nadiaboo1 Yes. That's the lyric.

  • I dont really like her big hits..Ilike the older stuff like this. This song is great.

  • Yes! I remember this and it is incredible. Music is not the same anymore. It has no soul but this does........................

  • I've the "Give It Up" CD, which this Joel Zoss comp came out in '72. On the recording, Bonnie used a 12-string guitar for what I'd say would be the only time. It also has a beautiful cello lick courtesy of Gene Stactchuk, and Eric Kaz doing a beautiful piano piece. 

  • @headphone355

    One of the best CD's ever made - I have it on LP also :)

  • Master storyteller/singer at work!

  • I believe the man with the white Strat is John Hall. He produced her Taking My Time album, and was a member of the band Orleans who had some hits in the 70's including Still the One. He is now a member of House representing NY state.

  • who is the guitar player with the white strat?

  • @atomic6120 The White strat guy is Will Mcfarlane, future Muscle Shoals Rhythm section player and Musician hall of famer.

  • She's simply an American Treasure. Will always love ya Bonnie, thank you.

  • Beautiful!!!

  • I sing a lot like Bonnie and I love her style. Us altos don't have many role models out there. SING IT GIRL

  • too beautiful. what a tune

  • <3<3<3<3<3<

  • Her studio bands are tight! Bonnie Raitt has a real gift, appreciate her sharing.

  • absolutely fabulous song. but I have no idea what the words are about. can anyone offer an explanation?

  • @saleens7austin - loss and love and yearning and regret and suffering. one of my all-time favourites - the tears always flow when i hear this one

  • @elps84 I can see that. I've also thought it might be about dying.

  • Thanks for posting this clip !

    I love this song.

  • She is such an amazing talent and underrated in the popular media, which is perhaps a good thing. She is a music lovers musician, I love her voice and her style and musicianship; a wonderful guitarist

  • Freebo !!!

  • She's such an amazing artist. I've loved her music for years now, just completely wonderful!

  • it just does not get better than this. seen her 15 times or so over the years ...

  • Bonnie here looks like Ann-Marie Duff, the very talented actress, wife of James McAvoy.

    I've been looking and looking, trying to figure out who Bonnie reminds me of.

    One of my five favourite singers of all time.

  • Not long enough..darlin

  • The most under rated artist in the USA...Bonnie, you are the best! Forget the plastic bottles of gaga and goobs, this is an artist,

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  • Thanks you for posting.  I love seeing these older vids. Her voice is amazing.

  • my mom bankrolled sweet jane studio and helped produce bonnies first album

    jane westley was a sweet jane indeed & bonnie waited many years for recognition

    it was great to see bonnie win 8 emmies, mom saw it before she died

  • Now that my friends is pure blissss.

  • remember this one

  • Ahhh I love this song. She's so beautiful too :)

  • THis is the Bonnie I know and love-

  • One of my very favorites of hers. Nice to see her do it. I've only listened to it on my old-school vinyl!

  • One of my very favorites of hers. Nice to see her do it. I've only listened to it on my old-school vinyl!

  • @leithp My Dad and I burned through two copies of her first vinyl the year it came out. Lived right behind original Tower Recs on Sunset. Saw her face, recognized it from somewhere inside, then saw a picture of my dad's mom young and eyes bugged out. THen he pointed out how much I looked like her too, (before the redhair)

  • Ke$ha, eat your heart out!!!

  • Raitt, Ronstandt, are there others such now? Maybe, maybe that the times allowed these woman to rise, while now such are sufficated, surpressed

  • She sure has aged well!

  • She was too much of a musician in the early years to become a commercial sucess.

  • Anyone still searching for great new music in a similar vein should check Freebo (bonnies bassplayer who you cans ee in the background) recent albums, just great folk music and he does amazingly intimate live shows around the country all the time. Check his website freebomusic

  • Sho nuff an ..AWESOME ARTIST!! Love Bonnie!!

  • man.. one of those artists that are not appreciated enough.....bonnie you are the best and the most talented female...

  • Many of us have loved Bonnie since the first album..and stilll do. She walks the talk...............She is an American treasure...............

  • yes, Will McFarlane playing guitarJohn Hall played guitar on the album version.

  • i used to have an original copy of an old bonnie radio live...wore it out had alot of old blues from her.. really miss it

  • That's Will McFarlane on lead guitar I think.

  • as a wee girl who ran away from home one weekend Bonnie changed my life. 1977,

    Thank you Bon

  • First time I saw Bonnie was at Moody Colosseum at Southern Methodist University in the 70's, about 1974-75. It was an all day into the night with many other musicians, Jackson Browne, Asleep at the wheel, Willie Nelson to name a few. I sat on the floor right in front of the stage. I did not want to leave, it was a beautiful time to be in back then.

  • really gorgeous woman....reminds me of an ex-girlfriend

  • Does anyone have a version of 'Wild for you baby' that they could post?? That is such a fabulous song and Bonnie just does it to perfection!!

  • That would be a great find-It is one of my favorite songs of all time!!!!!!!

  • Great show who is playing lead guitar

  • I think it's John Hall

  • OMG, I love that song. It is heart wrenching and gut tearing.

  • Kal David

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  • Yeah, who IS that playing lead guitar?

  • Just a guess David Lindley?

  • whoa.just whoa.

  • Great Joel Zoss song by a wonderful performer! She's timeless.

  • I was in the audience when this was recorded. Such a night!

  • who is in the band? The only one I know for sure is Freebo.

  • @garrym417 i envy you

  • @garrym417 where was this?

  • @saleens7austin At the BBC Theatre in Shepherds Bush, West London, recorded for TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test. Saw her again on the same tour at The New Victoria Theatre, which I thought was a better show overall.

  • @garrym417 thanks! 

  • @garrym417 what a ridiculously Awesome thing to be able to actually write on here!!

    Totally jealous and happy for you. Bet you musta seen ALOT of greats then. Wow!

  • @garrym417 Realy!! Wow!!

  • This is my favorite song of hers. Her voice is so pure :)

  • I just love this. Thank you for posting these gems

  • This is one of my favorite Bonnie Raitt songs. It brings back such great memories.

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  • i forget what a tremendous vocalist she is

    this is golden

  • Holey's cow. Fantastic post. Thanks man. Or woman. Whatever you are...

  • Interesting comment, although I believe she was more concerned with gravitas than piety at that age. She well understood where her life would take her, and capitalized. Few great things happen overnight. Hats off to Bonnie!

  • Well I am using piety in a non-literal way, and if you prefer gravitas, I would be happy to substitute it. Let me just put it like this; she gets to be a lot more fun, more entertaining, when she stops taking herself so seriously. The Sippie Wallace finally triumphed over the Joan Baez in her ;-)

  • I gotcha. Great comparison, Wallace/Baez. I was trying to say the same thing, actually. :-)

  • she's still an evolving artist....that shouldv've gotten her due decades before she did

  • It worked pretty well for Bob Dylan.

  • Meh. It didn't take him too long to become a caricature of himself. I think that's one of the big challenges for recording artists--sometimes the perception that they must always be "evolving" takes them away from what they're best at. To me, Joni Mitchell is also in that group. As she got more arteestic she got less and less fun to listen too. Bonnie Raitt never lost sight of the fact that recording artists are primarily entertainers.

  • yes, that's right.

  • One of the most talented performers on this Planet.

     Uniquely talented and graciously modest.

  • I adore this woman as a musician. What an amazing talent, vocally, and on the guitar!

  • Go red.

  • Bonnie is more powerful now than ever!

  • I love this song.

  • The album "Give it up" soothed the wild beast in me as a teenager and helped me find peace. thanks Bonnie 1. Give It Up Or Let Me Go 2. Nothing Seems To Matter 3. I Know 4. If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody 5. Love Me Like A Man 6. Too Long At The Fair 7. Under The Falling Sky 8. You Got To Know How 9. You Told Me Baby 10. Love Has No Pride
  • Bonnie Raitt is FUCKING INCOMPARABLE.

  • I was a teenage girl who sang and seriously played guitar at the time - had few role models, but Bonnie was one of them. I loved the quality of her voice back then. Saw her in NYC about this time, she was awesome.

  • she is an angel and guilty is what started it all fo me

  • She looks like an angel.

  • Bonnie you break my heart.

    If that doesn't stir your soul you been dead a week.

  • Wow just beatiful, this is the best part of youtube, to find treasures like this

    Yes Goddess

    Very bad day today, made me cry, feeling better thanks Bonnie

  • Sings so clear, like a bell ringing. wow. Hey, what happened to Freebo? I loved him. Incredible version, thanks for posting.

  • Freebo's still kickin'. Check his myspace and other vids here

  • GODDESS

  • does anyone have the tabs for this song? or possibly know where to find the tabs???

  • Wow. Love the vocal on this even better than that on the LP -- so heartfelt and expressive.

    Thanks so much for finding and posting...

  • Powerful opening - god I love this song

  • Heard Bonnie sing this many many times. Such an amazing song. Yes, this is a young Bonnie. She is like good wine though. Has just gotten better with age.

  • Bonnie went through hell in 1980s' -- deep drug addiction. She came out of this ... even better, stronger as artist.

  • I bought the dvd sometime back for another song - but was absolutely blown away when this song began to play.

  • thanks for posting!

  • She looks so different know!

  • brilliant... she sends me to heaven

  • What ever happened to Freebo? Is he still with us? Nice posting! Thanks.

  • In February I saw him open up for Paul Barerre and Fred Hackett of Little Feat at a charity event in a bar in Malibu. There were maybe like 50 people there. He sat in on a couple of Feat songs, one of which was Down On The Farm and the three of them just wailed.

  • Freebo still plays and records new music, check out his myspace.

  • freebo was at the folk alliance in 2/08; stayed up late to sit in with FreeWorld in memphis

  • Awesome performance. Thanks

  • Great song.

  • I love her x and this song x didnt Know James cobern was such a great guitarist LOL x

  • That shot at 1:55 makes him look like the Geico Caveman.

  • lol your right

  • :D. THANKS 4 SHARING!

  • Man, those were the days, Bonnie was still

    more a cult favorite around parts of the country at this time but those of us that followed her music remember these days fondly

    she was so bluesy, cool and confident, such

    a different day an age, a whole different style of music apprecitated by the masses.

    I believe their were two versions of this

    song? Could have been a single and on the

    Warners Lost leaders albums. Great song, earthy, what a time in

    my life as a teenager listening to Bonnie.

  • What a classic ! This must be the definitive version of this great song. Recorded at the BBC Theatre in Shepherd's Bush, London.

  • Beauty of a younger woman...

    Wonderful sounding old Strat...

    Great Song!!

  • Love this song from the "early" - and my favorite - Bonnie.

  • beautyful.

  • long ago and far away

  • The writer,Joel Zoss,has a website. You could e-mail him.

  • Awesome song. Can't find the chords for guitar anywhere. Suggestions greatly appreciated.

    FogCityT

  • Hey Fog . Just do a search. Besides ,the chords aren't that hard to figure out. You can't figure them out by watching?

  • Thanks Uncle Dave, but I am a beginner so my ear isn't that good yet. I have searched all of the sites I know of, to no avail. I'll figure it out, just thought someone might have the chords.

  • Lovely! Nice song too.

  • Thank you for posting this great song

  • Bonnie O Bonnie

  • From the very good album "Give It Up", 1972 release I believe,-Saw Miss Raitt at "Shaboo", a kinda roadhouse near Univ. of Conn. around that time-you remember those venues-freedom to wander around, light one up; sweat, beer and whisky flowed...Miss Raitt,-great.

  • this was the first song i ever heard by raitt. i am soooo glad someone posted a live version!

  • The Shaboo! Awsume. what a place-a place where the 'stage' was a foot high and you could ,indeed,light one up the mic smelled like beer and you got Home when the sun was rising. THIS is Bonnie before she was 'Bonnie Raitt' Trivia question- Who was 'Boz'?

  • this sounds beautiful

  • what an amazing voice....

  • Pure soul!

  • Lets see... Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars + Fender fretless. Gotta be Freebo!

  • Does anyone know where I could find chords/tabs for this song? It's pretty hard to find tabs for some of Bonnie's old songs ... any help would be appreciated. Thanks

  • First heard her in a head shop in Brattleboro, Vt,June 1970, home from Nam, couldn't believe the change in music. Enchanting, bought the album immediately,taped it on my Akai 8 track, drove the back roads listening till it wore out.

  • Good to see Freebo there on the bass...

    WE

  • One of my favortie Bonnie songs. I've been a fan since 1975 and I am glad to see the rest of the world has caught on to her music.

  • Sublime! The ultimate closer

  • Bonnie never recorded this song on any of her albums. Great pitty

  • Check out Give It Up, from the early seventies.

  • I wouldn't bother with "Give It Up" which is currently going for in excess of £20 on Amazon. I would look at "Old Grey Whistle Test" DVD which actually includes the version above. Check it out.

  • yes she did. Don't remember the anme of the album, however I remember owning it and listening to it incessantly. God, how important this woman was in my formation as well as Athens, Georgia!

  • This song is on the album Give it Up. One of her best albums

  • been searching for this for months and now it has finally been posted...great video...