{"id":5239,"date":"2025-09-17T02:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bonnie-raitt-keeps-politics-out-of-her-shows-1236068142\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T02:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:47:01","slug":"bonnie-raitt-keeps-politics-out-of-her-shows-1236068142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bonnie-raitt-keeps-politics-out-of-her-shows-1236068142\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re All Suffering\u2019: Why Bonnie Raitt Keeps Politics Out of Her\u00a0Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tBonnie Raitt<\/a>\u2018s political and social leanings are no secret, and she\u2019s certainly rankled by what\u2019s transpired during the first nearly nine months of the current administration in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut as the 15-time Grammy Award winner and 2024 Kennedy Center Honoree continues touring to support her 2022 album Just Like That\u2026<\/em>, Raitt says she\u2019s doing her best to make her concerts something of an antithesis to the turmoil.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI never proselytize on stage about my positions, politically, but I do acknowledge the suffering and cruelty and anxiety that we\u2019re feeling,\u201d says Raitt, who routinely contributes lobby space at her concerts to non-profits involved in social and environmental causes. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t assume that everybody in the audience is politically aligned with me, but I think we all agree there\u2019s a lot more discord and dissension and unhappiness and stress, to put it mildly.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tRaitt spoke with Billboard <\/em>ahead of a recent Detroit concert, where she had a warm reunion with Nick of Time<\/em> producer Don Was, in town rehearsing with his Pan-Detroit Ensemble, on his 73rd birthday.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re all suffering, I think,\u201d she continues. \u201cBut aside from announcing which grassroots groups have a table in the front lobby \u2014 it\u2019s clear I like to support the environmental and voter registration and humanitarian kind of efforts \u2014 I keep it pretty general.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd it\u2019s a great uplift for the audience, and for me, in tricky and very stressful, anxious and upsetting times to have this time to come together and celebrate our great history in these songs, and these songwriters and our affection for each other. I can\u2019t think of a better place to be during these difficult times.\u201d<\/p>\n

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