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BONNIE RAITT STARTS OVER IN MINNESOTA WITH PRINCE 8.27.1987 Chicago Tribune article from 1987:
Bonnie Raitt Starts Over, In Minnesota With PrinceAugust 27, 1987|By Jon Bream, Minneapolis Star and Tribune.
If you want to start over, sometimes it`s best to go back to where you started. . That`s what Bonnie Raitt has done. She went back to Minnesota this year to begin recording anew-with fellow Minnesotan Prince-after severing a 15-year relationship with Warner Bros. Records. .  In 1971, Raitt recorded her debut album in folk-bluesman Dave Ray`s studio in a garage on an island in Lake Minnetonka. That LP was the California singer`s first step toward becoming one of pop music`s most enduring cult figures. She has been a folk singer, a blueswoman, an R & B stylist and a distinguished guitarist who has appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone and in the all-star video of the anti-apartheid anthem ``Sun City.`` . Prince, she said, ``called me in November and he came to one of my shows. He told me he wanted to work with me.`` . They met twice to discuss parameters of the project, then in April she went to the studio in Prince`s home and recorded three songs. . ``It was interesting to see what he would come up with,`` she says, ``especially because I`m political and not a very shy person, and he`s not very political and he is very shy. But the fact that we both do R & B, and now that I`ve heard the songs, it makes complete sense to me. It came out really well.`` . Her sessions with Prince were different from any of her previous recording experiences. . ``It was nice to be working with another singer and guitarist,`` she says. ``There was a lot of mutual respect. There isn`t any danger of his steamrolling me into his own image. I`m strong enough personality-wise so I`m not going to be told how to sing. He was not any more demanding than I was of myself.`` . Prince wrote and recorded the instrumental tracks in advance, then Raitt added vocals and lead guitar. They cut two R & B songs and one reggae tune. . Raitt said it was as refreshing to record in Minnesota this year as it was 16 years ago. That isn`t the only reason the veteran singer-guitarist feels as if she`s starting over. A hand injury forced her to take a lengthy vacation for the first time in years. She exercised, changed her eating habits, stopped partying and basically altered her life style. . There was hardly any partying when Raitt went to the Soviet Union in July to perform with the Doobie Brothers, Santana, James Taylor and various Soviet rock, swing and folk performers in conjunction with a U.S.-Soviet peace march. But performing in front of 25,000 Russians connected Raitt with her past in another way. . ``For an old peace activist like me, I was very heartened by it,`` she says. ``I`m thrilled with all these big (benefit) concerts because the tradition I came out of was the Bob Dylan-Joan Baez protest song.`` . Raitt, the daughter of Broadway singer John Raitt, grew up in the Los Angeles area. Having played guitar since she was 9, she gravitated to the folk and blues scenes in Boston when she attended Radcliffe College in 1967. After four years on the club circuit as a soloist, she signed with Warner Bros. Records. . Now her managers are shopping for a new contract for her. She called her 15-year relationship with Warner Bros. a marriage that went stale. . ``The last few years my spirit was broken by them not promoting me,`` says Raitt, who had only one album released by Warners in the last five years. ``I`ve always made money for the label. (Her best seller, ``Sweet Forgiveness,`` has sold nearly 1 million copies.) At a certain point, you either ought to get off the label or stop complaining.`` . Raitt has renewed confidence that there is a market for artists older than 25 who play blues- and R & B-oriented rock. She points optimistically to the recent success of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Robert Cray and Steve Winwood, as well as smaller record labels. . ``I decided that I`m going to be okay regardless of whether I have a hit record,`` she says. ``I wouldn`t like to be a household word, but I would like the records to be in the stores. I want sensible marketing techniques used at my target audience.``
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This note is amazing. Note there was no dollar amount on how much to spend on Cat. Is there a photo of the artwork from the Koo Koo shoot? | |
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Very informative thread and I love the photos!!! Thanks. | |
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No there isn't, I should have put that in my questions to Cat
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Another well written review, by Consequence Of Sound can be found here.
The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams | |
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Where was Prince at during this photo? I have always like it. One thing I have never understood. The use of makeup. I personally think he looks so much better naturally, with out the make up. I can understand in videos and stage. SOTT seems like he was more natural. | |
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According to the article he was at some English mansion hideway
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the Ballad of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy was a waitress on the promenade Well, earlier I'd been talkin' stuff
In a violent room Well, I ordered, "Yeah, let me get a fruit cocktail, I ain't to hungry" Awh I said "Cool, but I'm leaving my pants on" (she say) Brrring the phone rang and she said
Dorothy Parker was cool) My pants where wet, they came off Instead she pretended she was blind I took another bubble bath with my pants on Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
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Let's keep this going. My fav-0-rite thread right now. Sign O' The Times.
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you probably mean to post these inthe SOTT movie thread? | |
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Is it me or were Prince's heels the highest around this era? Look at the angle between his heel and the front of his boot compared to his boots in recent years. __________________________________________________
2 words falling between the drops and the moans of his condition | |
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I think he wore casual boots that were different from the stage boots.
His heels looked pretty high on the Little Red Corvette video
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This thread is called SOTT "ERA" The SOTT movie is SOTT Era, right? | |
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oh sorry, yeah there is seperate thread to talk about the actual concert film and this one the album/outtakes etc | |
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Oh...didnt know there was a separate thread for the movie. I will go check it out.
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lol U probably just got the 2 confused | |
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It coulda been a single thread. The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams | |
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I never get tired of the music the concert footage and the pictures from this era. The good ol' days!! I miss u dearly, Prince!!! ❤🎶💋 "A strong spirit transcends rules." - Prince | |
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