Bonnie Raitt’s Blender Blues: It doesn’t get any better than this
by 
dng on September 22nd, 2007
My love affair with blues and the legendary Bonnie Raitt began in 1977 when I was 13 years old. I was in my bedroom listening to a local top 40’s station when the tuner on my antiquated clock radio became stuck between channels. In tuning it I landed WMMR in Philadelphia and heard the most amazing thing. Bonnie Raitt’s “Blender Blues” was playing. It was a live recording from Philly’s Sigma Sound Studions from, I believe, 1972 or so.
Bonnie Raitt became my hero and I listened to the radio often to hear that song especially. It was a rare treat, perhaps I heard it three or four times again and that was it. A few months ago I mentioned to a few friends how 30 years later it was still one of the most amazing songs I ever heard. Bonnie received a lot of flack for that song, it was quite risque for that time and she vowed never to play it again. Indeed, she never played it any of the times I had the pleasure of seeing her perform. One of my friends sent me an mp3 version of the song he found online. I’m honored to be able to share a link to it with you today.
Friends, I give Bonnie Raitt singing the song that started it all for me, The Blender Blues.
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2 opinions for Bonnie Raitt’s Blender Blues: It doesn’t get any better than this
Oct 5, 2007 at 9:29 pm
how can I get an MP3 of this song all for my very own?? I was 15 in 1972..”mmr fan….
Christine
Oct 19, 2007 at 8:25 am
Thanks a lot for this! My story with Bonnie is also about a radio show: It’s 1984 and I’m drafted to this Navy minesweeper, full of thugs who make my life miserable. When one night a half-drunk Spaniard from the crew puts on his ever-changing mixtape, and it’s Bonnie singing “Love Has No Pride” and “Rollin and Tumblin”. I hadn’t known her and it knocked me out. It was an apparently DIFFERENT early 70s radio show, just her and a 2nd steel string player. Back home I bought “Give it up”, which was almost as good, but still … 3 weeks later, back on the boat, I jam the tape in to find out the guy had erased (waaaah!) the Bonnie songs to record something else. I’ve been looking for that recording of her ever since. What did he replace? Another discovery of sorts, a dance novelty named “Holiday” from someboy, we found out later, who called herself Madonna …
Cheers
Christian
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