Bonnie Raitt was playing nearby this weekend. We didn’t get to see her, sadly, but I thought this week I’d feature a selection from her most recent album (Slipstream, released in the spring).
Unfortunately, in the process of looking at videos of her music I fell down a very deep rabbit hole. (I’ll feature Slipstream in a later post.) I gotta tell you: the woman has played gigs with an unbelievable range of fellow performers, including this gem from the mid-1990s.
Blues-guitarist great Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash in 1990. In 1996, a pantheon of fellow blues artists got together for a tribute concert, later released as a DVD; the emotional high point was the number below, “Six Strings Down,” written by Jimmie Vaughan (who also does the lead vocals) in honor of his brother. Playing and singing with Jimmie Vaughan are Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Dr. John, Art Neville (on keyboard), and Stevie Ray Vaughan’s own band, Double Trouble.
Whoa.
[Lyrics]
jules says
Whoa is right. Damn.
John says
I’ve been trying to picture what a bunch of kick-*ss writers would do when they got together after one of their colleagues died, and all I can think of is drinking. :)
Jayne says
You? Down a rabbit hole? Nooooo. ;)
This song really tugs at the heart, but what a wonderful musical confabulation. Thanks for sharing the video.
John says
You? Down a rabbit hole? Nooooo. ;)
Riiiiight. So says the Soliloquist who has not Soliloquized in, like, three years. (Laughing.)
Jayne says
Three years?! Ha! Boy, I have been terribly neglectful… good news is that soccer season is almost over. (OK, I know, it’s way too easy to blame it on the kids.) :/