Bonnie Raitt has one of the most pure voices of anyone I’ve ever heard. Her delivery is as smooth as silk and effortless. Combine that with great guitar skills and that fiery red hair and you have a rock star.
“I Can’t Make You Love Me” is a sad song to say the least. Written by Mike Reid & Allen Shamblin, a lover knows it’s over but doesn’t want to face it until the morning. Raitt recorded this song in one take because it was so sad she didn’t feel she could recapture the emotion again.
| “ | I mean, ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ is no picnic. I love that song, so does the audience. So it’s almost a sacred moment when you share that, that depth of pain with your audience. Because they get really quiet, and I have to summon … some other place in order to honor that space. | ” |
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— Raitt, 2002 NPR interview[4]
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