Label FIRED HER After ZERO Hits in 18 years…The VERY NEXT Year She HIT #1! | Professor Of Rock
11,729Many called Bonnie Raitt an overnight success when she swept the Grammys in 1989… but today’s guitar-toting songstress was actually two decades and ten studio albums in the making. Without a doubt, it was a long, hard road to get there. Dropped by her label, written off by critics, and getting loaded after every show, it seemed like Bonnie's career was over. But Raitt’s comeback was oh so sweet when she hit #1 in 1989 and swept the Grammys. Her legend was etched in stone when she covered a former NFL football player's song I Can't Make You Love Me that was so heart-wrenching she could barely get through it because she was sobbing over the entire recording. Today’s song is definitely a candidate for the saddest ever written. It’s one you can only listen to a few times a year... and it was inspired by something a man said to a judge when he was being sentenced for shooting up his girlfriend’s car. With an amazing guest instrumentalist, the story is NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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So, it’s time for another edition of #1 in Our Hearts. This show honors songs that were so unbelievably great, they deserved to be at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for multiple reasons came up short. And they are usually better than the songs that were at #1 at that time... Today we have an amazing story behind the heartwrenching classic interpreted by many artists but the first was the best… It’s I Can’t Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt. Although she was the daughter of 1950s Broadway star John Raitt, Bonnie was raised on the country blues of Mississippi Fred McDowell and the Chicago blues of Muddy Waters.
So, by the time Bonnie started playing guitar at age 12, she already had the blues in her blood In 1967 Raitt entered Radcliffe College, but dropped out after two years and began playing the bar circuit. After Bonnie acquired the services of manager Dick Waterman, began performing with her heroes, blues legends Howlin' Wolf, Sippie Wallace, and Mississippi Fred McDowell. Her skill would earn her a reputation as one of the premier slide guitar players in popular music. Her reputation also led to a record contract with Warner Bros. Debuting in 1971 with an eponymously titled effort, Raitt emerged as a critical favorite, applauded not only for her soulful vocals but also for her guitar prowess. However, Raitt’s first real commercial success would come in 1977 with her cover of Del Shannon’s ‘Runaway.’
By the early 80s, it seemed like Raitt was primed to break out. But instead, Raitt’s career was in trouble. Although 1982's Green Light reached #38 on the Billboard 200, she still hadn’t broken through to a wider audience. After Green Light, Bonnie got to work on her follow-up, originally titled Tongue in Groove. Here, Bonnie stretched out stylistically, blending elements of reggae and ska into her rock and roll blues numbers. However, Warner Bros hated it and pressured her to remix the album.