I Can't Make You Love Me, Mike Reid

Mike Reid at the Warner building in Nashville telling us about the song he wrote for Bonnie Raitt.

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Music

Tags:

• Can't
• Make
• You
• Love
• Me
• Mike
• Reid
• Warner
• Berklee
• Nashville
• Trip
• 2010
• Bonnie
• Raitt

[RiderXXX]

@breezerb65

Speaking of the writer's version, are you familiar with Jimmy Webb? Another great.

[breezerb65]

I didn't even know Bonnie Raitt did this song. I only knew Mike Reid's version, and that he wrote it. Much of his music is unforgettable, and I've sung it to myself during trying times. I usually enjoy the writer's versions better in all music, as their feeling comes through strongest when singing them. I can only imagine what triggers a song like this to come from a person, but thank you Mike, your music overshadowed all other's in the early nineties. Real, Honest, Emotion

[jlrock69]

@beaconmike He is incredible. He wrote old folks for Ronnie Milsap and its now on U-tub. I think they had a falling out and neither released it on latest albums.

[jlrock69]

Mike is a great writer and I love his voice. He was on CMT with Hank Howard and several writers about 1995 and sang Old Folks and Call home. Hank and some of the other people on the show wondered why he didn't have a recording contract. Within a year he had an album out and several top 10 hits and was on Nashville Now several times.

[silencemagazine]

Justin Vernon of Bon Iver has an amazing cover of this song. Anyone else heard it?

[kuschnir787]

F..., he is right. F... . Tell it to your kids.

[Babyhowdy233]

Correction:the song he CO-WROTE. Allen Shamblin co-wrote this beautiful classic ("I Can't Make You Love Me") and many others, including "The House That Built Me". Shamblin is a simply phenomenal songwriter!

[beaconmike]

If you would like to hear another incredibly sensitive song written and sung by Mike Reid, (it is not on Youtube), but rather, you will have to Bing it or Google it..............go to 'Call Home' by Mike Reid. You should be able to find the video of that song. It brings on the tears for sure. Also, on Youtube, look for Alabama's 'Forever's as far as I'll go'..................written by Mike Reid

[ruddergrl1]

Thank you soooo much for posting this. I have ALWAYS loved his version of this song. He can only do it like it should be done......after all, it's HIS song. The emotion he puts into this is like no one else. I have looked on here for years for this.........I'm so glad you put this up.

[largo2lass]

i have this on the original cd.... wish i knew how to upload it on here.  the original is just soooo stunning.