Bonnie Raitt has long been involved with the environmental movement, doing concerts to support forest, oil, mining and water protection since the mid-'70s. Her tour bus runs on biofuel.
Raitt writes some of her own songs ("Nick Of Time," for example) but mostly records songs written by others. She's gone out of her way to credit these writers, who are often musicians as well, to raise their profiles. For example, she talked up Larry John McNally, who wrote her songs "Nobody's Girl" and "Slow Ride," calling him "an undersung, underrated brilliant artist." "I can't say enough good about Bonnie," McNally told Songfacts. "She's smart and funny and caring and charismatic. She's a killer guitar player and singer. She goes out of her way to give credit to the songwriters and musicians around her and lends a helping hand to those on the way up that she believes in."
Her father is the celebrated Broadway singer John Raitt (Carousel, Oklahoma!, The Pajama Game) and her mother is the accomplished pianist/singer Marge Goddard. The best advice her dad gave her: "Make every night opening night."
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