Amazing
by Pt27 on 08/06/2025O2 Apollo Manchester - ManchesterRating: 5 out of 510/10 performance from a true veteran. Amazing voice and energy, band were incredible and sound was great.
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Bonnie Raitt is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose unique style blends blues, R&B, rock, and pop. After 20 years as a cult favorite, she broke through to the top in the early 90s with her GRAMMY-award-winning albums, Nick of Time and Luck of the Draw, which featured hits, “Something To Talk About” and “I Can’t Make You Love Me” among others. The thirteen-time GRAMMY winner was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 and Rolling Stone named the slide guitar ace one of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” and one of the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time.”
Raitt made an unexpected splash in music industry headlines last month when Essex-native Charli XCX via her collaborator Justin Vernon sampled and interpolated "Nick of Time," the title track from Raitt's 1989 release that earned the GRAMMY Award for Album of the Year. The new track "I think about it all the time featuring bon iver" is included on Charli's new remix album, Brat and It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat, and whose message about "running out of time" has resonated with younger generations just as it did for Raitt's contemporaries 35 years ago. “Well, luckily, there are people like Charli and Justin who are drawn to my music,” Raitt says. “When I started, I was idolizing my heroes like Sippie Wallace, Muddy Waters, and Judy Collins, and now I get to be appreciated like they were. I’ll take it, and wear it with pride.”
2023 kicked off with Raitt earning three GRAMMY™ Awards at the 65th Annual ceremony; Song Of The Year and Best American Roots Song for the title track of her most recent album “Just Like That…”, and Best Americana Performance for “Made Up Mind.” Raitt was as well acknowledged for the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award she was honored with the year prior. Raitt has been on tour for most of 2023 and 2024 with stops in the U.S., Australia, the UK, Ireland, Scotland and Canada.
Since the release of her critically acclaimed studio album, Just Like That… in 2022, Raitt has been touring extensively across the US & Canada with overseas stops in Australia, UK and Europe including Ireland.
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10/10 performance from a true veteran. Amazing voice and energy, band were incredible and sound was great.