Bonnie Raitt BBC Four Sessions

Thank you, London calling!

So nice to be in this beautiful city.

I want to thank BBC Four for having us.

We've got some pretty greasy stuff to throw at you, starting right now.

# Doctor Feelgood

# Sleeping on a concrete bench

# Can I get a witness?

# Miss South Carolina 1975

# Somebody stole your crown

# You were sleeping in your happy home

# When you woke up, baby

# Your life had come and gone

# Now you're mystified

# You're standing with the rest of us

# Used to rule the world

# Brother Lovejoy

# You're rapping up a blue streak

# Can I get a witness?

# Miss Hurricane She can't keep her hands still

# Long enough to count your change

# You were wrapped up in your daily grind

# And the cost of living

# It didn't even cross your mind

# Cos you're mystified

# Standing with the rest of us

# Who used to rule the world... #

That's what I'm talking about, right over there!

# Mr Blueprint

# You used to have it figured out

# Now you can't find your car

# Miss Cocktail Dress You're standing at the bathroom sink

# You're looking for a back way out

# Well, you can't believe your very eyes

# Everything you were counting on is nothing but a pack of lies

# Cos you're mystified

# Standing with the rest of us

# Who used to rule the world

# Now you're mystified

# Standing with the rest of us

# Who used to rule

# Used to rule

# Used to rule the world. #

Mike Finnigan over there on the keyboard!

Singing there, too, baby.

We've been out on the road a long time.

We've been waiting to come back to your beautiful country for so long.

I want to sing this next song for the man who wrote it,

who I really wanted to meet and play this tune for.

And sadly, we lost him. One of the greatest, Gerry Rafferty.

# You know that I need your love

# You've got that hold over me

# As long as I've got your love

# You know I'll never leave

# When I wanted you to share my life

# I had no doubt in my mind

# It's been you

# Oh, baby

# Right down the line

# I know how much I lean on you

# Only you can see

# The changes I've been going through

# Have left a mark on me

# You've been as constant as a Northern Star

# The brightest light that shines

# It's been you

# Oh, baby

# Right down the line

# I just wanna say this is my way

# Of telling you everything

# I could never say before

# Yeah, this is my way of telling you

# Every day I love you so much more

# You believed in me through my darkest night

# Put something inside of me

# Brought me into the light

# Threw away my crazy dream

# I threw them all

# It's been you

# Oh, baby

# Right down the line

# And I just want to say

# This is my way of telling you everything

# I could never say before

# Yeah, this is my way of telling you

# Every day I love you so much more

# And if I doubt myself

# I'm losing ground

# I won't turn to someone else

# They'd only let me down

# When I wanted you to share my life

# I had no doubt in my mind

# It's been you

# Oh, baby

# Right down the line

# It's been you

# Oh, baby

# Right down the line

# It's been you

# It's been you

# Right down the line. #

George Marinelli!

Thank you very much. This is such a cool hall, isn't it?

It's got a spring-loaded floor, I understand,

so you can pogo all you want!

If you do, I'll be taking out my iPhone and filming you!

How about something from Nick Of Time?

I always think about Johnny Hooker when I do this.

Let's sing this for him.

# Don't have to humble yourself to me

# I ain't your judge or your king

# I said, baby

# You know I ain't no Queen of Sheba

# May not even have our dignity

# Could be a powerful thing

# I said, baby

# We can choose You know we ain't no amoeba

# Are you ready for the thing called love?

# Don't come from me and you

# Comes from up above

# I ain't no porcupine

# Take off your kid gloves

# Are you ready for the thing called love?

# I ain't no icon carved out of soap

# Sent here to clean up your reputation

# Baby

# Baby, you ain't no Prince Charming

# We can live in fear or act out of hope

# Kind of peaceful situation

# Baby

# Baby, why is that cry of love so alarming?

# Are you ready for the thing called love?

# Don't come from me and you

# Comes from up above

# I ain't no porcupine

# Take off your kid gloves

# Are you ready for the thing called love?

# Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans

# Glide on down the lake

# Whether them sunglasses are off or on

# Only see the world you make

# Are you ready for the thing called love?

# Don't come from me and you

# It comes from up above

# I ain't no porcupine

# Take off your kid gloves

# Are you ready for it?

# You ready for love?

# You ready for love? #

Thank you very much.

We're going to play a little blues for you from the new record.

I had the great pleasure and honour of working with Joe Henry

on four of the tracks on Slipstream, and this is a Bob Dylan song.

He said, "Let's do it!" And here we go.

# You took a part of me that I really miss

# I keep asking myself How long can it go on like this?

# You told yourself a lie

# It's all right, baby I told myself one, too

# Well, I tried to get closer

# I'm still a million miles from you

# You took the silver

# You took the gold

# You left me standing out in the cold

# People ask about you

# Don't tell them everything I knew

# Well, I tried to get closer

# Still a million miles from you

# I'm driftin' in and out of dreamless sleep

# Somehow my memories in a ditch

# It's a ditch so deep

# Did so many things I never did intend to do

# Well, I've tried, baby

# Trying to get next to you

# I dare not close my eyes and I dare not blink

# Maybe in the next life I'll be able to hear myself think

# I feel like talkin' to somebody

# I just don't know who

# Well, I've tried to get closer

# I'm still a million miles from you

# Rock me, pretty baby Rock me all at once

# Rock me for a little while

# Rock me for a couple of months

# Yeah, I will rock you too

# Well, I've tried to get closer

# Still a million miles

# There's voices in the night tryin' to be heard

# Sittin' here listening to every mind-pollutin' word

# I know plenty of people

# They put me up for a day or two

# Well, I try to get closer

# Still a million miles from you

# Well, I try to get closer

# Still a million miles from you. #

Felt pretty good up here too!

Thank you very much.

You look great. It's great to be able to see the crowd.

I cut this song when I was a young pup of 22.

I just had my heart slammed up against the wall,

first serious time.

Thought if I just mastered singing this song enough,

he'd just come back. Turned out I was much better off...

APPLAUSE

# I've had bad dreams

# Too many times

# To think that they don't mean much any more

# Fine times have gone

# Left my sad home

# Friends who once cared

# Just walk out my door

# Love has no pride

# When I call out your name

# Love has no pride

# When there's no-one left to blame

# But I'd give anything

# To see you again

# I've been alone

# Too many nights

# To think that you

# Could come back again

# I've heard you talk

# She's crazy to stay

# But your love hurts me so

# I don't care what you say

# Love has no pride

# When I call out your name

# Love has no pride

# When there's no-one left to blame

# And I'd give anything

# To see you again

# If I could buy your love

# I'd probably try, my friend

# If I still could pray

# My prayer would never end

# If you want me to beg

# I'll fall down on my knees

# I'd ask you to come back

# I'd be pleading for you to come back

# Begging for you to come back to me

# Love has no pride

# When I call out your name

# Love has no pride

# When there's only myself to blame

# And I'd give anything

# To see you again

# Yes, I would give

# Anything

# To see you again. #

APPLAUSE

This is the part where I make Finnigan nervous over here.

I'm a big fan of Philadelphia soul music.

I started out in Philly and Boston and...

We lost the lead singer of The Spinners these last few months.

I'm going to sing this song for the great groups

that came out of that tradition,

and long may they reign.

I wrote this song when I was, uh...

feeling a little nervous about turning 40.

Seems like an awful long time ago!

LAUGHTER

All right, here we go.

# A friend of mine cries at night

# Calls me on the phone

# Sees babies everywhere she goes

-# And wants one of her own

-Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

# Waited long enough, she says

-# Still he can't decide

-Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

# Pretty soon she'll have to choose

# It's tearing her up inside

# She's scared

# Scared to run out of time

# I've seen my folks getting on

-# Watched their bodies change

-Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

# I know they saw the same in me

-# Makes us both feel strange

-Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

# No matter how you tell yourself

# What we all go through

# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

# Those lines are pretty hard to take

# Staring back at you

# Oh, baby Scared we'll run out of time

# When did the choices get so hard?

# With so much more at stake

# Life gets mighty precious

# When there's less of it to waste

# Whoa-whoa

# Ooooh

# Scared to run out of time

# Just when I thought I'd had enough

-# All my tears were shed

-Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

# No promise left unbroken

# No painful word

# No painful words unsaid

# You came along, baby

# And left it all behind

# You opened up my heart again, baby

# Much to my surprise

# I found love Love in the nick of time

# Love in the nick of time

# I've found love

# Love in the nick of time

# In the nick of time

# Love in the nick of time

# I've found love, baby Love in the nick of time

# Oooh-oooh

# Oh-oh-oh-ah-ah

# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

# Found your love, baby

# And I'm never gonna give it up now, honey

# Ooh, yeah, yeah

# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

# Oh-oh

# Oh-oh. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you.

I remember when we were young,

I used to look at Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker and all those guys

at about this age that I'm at just now and go,

"They're just so cool, they don't seem to be worried about a thing."

I know how they feel right now!

It is my supreme pleasure to be able to invite to the stage

my very special guest, whose songs I have covered,

and my very dear friend - Paul Brady.

CHEERING

Looking good, Paul.

24-hour ginger people, that's it!

PAUL BRADY: How are you doing?

I cut this song of Paul's. He cut it a few years ago.

It's co-written with Michael O'Keefe. I cut it on Slipstream.

We're going to do it, world premiere right now.

DRUMMER COUNTS IN

# Jimmy's not a high concept guy

# But he's front-page news let me tell you why

# He's on the cover of the New York Post

# Every network, coast to coast

# All he needed was a hot night in June

# Cos he had the needle and he had the spoon

# When he spiked it bit, and man, he flew

# Into America's living room

# We all love tragedy it loves us too

# It's a marriage made in Hollywood

# Between greed and you

# All you need to be a star is to die in open view

# It's a marriage made in Hollywood

# Between greed and you

# Between greed and you

# Between greed and you

# Loved by women, admired by men

# He walked down Broadway with his best friend

# His brain was wired like a light in a socket

# With his old friend in his back pocket

# That horse could kick, that horse could scream

# Ride you out of here into a different scene

# Unrequited love, that makes it fair

# But who keeps score when you're in mid-air?

# We all love tragedy it loves us too

# It's a marriage made in Hollywood

# Between greed and you

# All you need to be a star is to die in open view

# It's a marriage made in Hollywood between greed and you

# Between greed and you

# Between greed and you

# Like a free-fall chute that didn't open

# He looked down to see his dream was broken

# He stared back up at a hot grey sky

# Re-ran his life and then he died

# Well, if you jump off a building brother beware!

# Cos my friend Jimmy woke up mid-air

# No time to smile, no time to wave

# They buried him in a media grave

# We all love tragedy it loves us too

# It's a marriage made in Hollywood

# Between greed and you

# All you need to be a star is to die in open view

# It's a marriage made in Hollywood

# Between greed and you

# Between greed and you

# Between greed and you

# Yeah, it's a tragedy

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. #

APPLAUSE

Paul Brady!

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Back there on that second record in 1972, Give It Up,

I cut this song by one of the great artists of guitar songwriting,

modern blues, Chris Smither.

He's finally getting over to England more regularly and I want to sing this for...

He's my inspiration when I was first starting out. This is a tune

that he wrote, and I changed the words to gender specific.

# Men I've been seeing, baby

# Got their soul up on a shelf

# You know they could never love me

# Can't even love themselves

# I want someone to love

# Want a man that can understand

# Won't have to put himself above me

# Just to love me like a man

# I've never seen such losers people

# Don't think I haven't tried

# To find a man who could take me home

# Instead of takin' me for a ride

# Baby, are you the one who can?

# Believe it when I tell you

# That you love me like a man

# All want me to rock them

# Like my back ain't got no bone

# Come on and rock me, baby

# Like my backbone was your own

# Tell me, baby, are you the one who can?

# Believe it when I tell you

# I believe you could love me like a man

# I-oh-oh

# Come home sad and lonely, babe

# Feel like I wanna cry

# Can you just hold me, darlin'

# Without knowing a reason why?

# I said a man, honey

# Won't have to work, just to understand

# Who won't have to put himself above me

# Just to

# Love me like a man. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you.

Um...

I'm going to do this song,

and I want to acknowledge that I really appreciate Adele

covering this tune and bringing it a whole bunch of new fans.

One of the greatest gifts I've been given is this song.

# Ooh-ooh-ooh

# Ho-oh-oh

# Turn down the lights

# Turn down the bed

# Turn down these voices

# Inside my head

# Lay down with me

# Tell me no lies

# Just hold me closely

# Don't patronise

# Don't patronise me

# Cos I can't make you love me if you don't

# You can't make your heart feel

# Somethin' it won't

# Here in the dark in these final hours

# Will I lay down my heart

# And feel the power

# But you won't

# No, you won't

# I can't make you love me

# If you don't

# I'll close my eyes

# So I don't see

# The love you don't feel

# When you're holding me

# Morning will come

# I'll do what's right

# Just give me till then

# To give up this fight

# And I will give up this fight

# I can't make you love me if you don't

# You can't make your heart feel

# Somethin' it won't

# Here in the dark in this final hour

# When I lay down my heart

# I feel the power

# But you won't

# I can't make you love me

# If you don't

# Ooh-ooh. #

All right!

We're about wrapping it up here!

You boys ready?

-MAN:

-Yeah!

# Oh, baby I ain't asking much of you

# Little baby, I ain't asking much of you

# I want a big old hunk o' your love to pull me through

# Don't be a stingy little daddy

# You're 'bout to starve me half to death

# Well, you can spare a kiss or two and

# Still have plenty left little baby

# I ain't asking much of you

# I want a big, big big hunk o' love to pull me through

Go get 'em, Mike!

# You're just a natural born beehive

# Filled with honey to the top

# Well, I ain't greedy, baby

# All I want is all you got

# I ain't asking much of you

# I want a big old hunk o' love to pull me through

# Wishbone in my pocket

# I got a rabbit foot around my wrist

# Honey, I got everything a lucky charm could bring

# Give me just one sweet kiss

# Oh, baby I ain't asking much of you

# I want a big-a big-a big-a hunk o' love to pull me through

# Oh, baby I ain't asking much of you

# Little baby, I ain't asking much of you

# I want a big old hunk o' love to pull me through

# I want a big old hunk o' your love to pull me

# I want a big old hunk o' love to pull me through. #

Thank you, London.

Thank you, England. Thanks to the UK for bringing us to the BBC.

George Marinelli.

Mike Finnigan.

Hutch Hutchinson.

Ricky Fataar.

And my special guest Paul Brady.

And a special thanks to my crew.

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