Bluesfest, July 8, Bonnie Raitt

Day 2 featured Bonnie Raitt. If you don’t know who she is, you’ve been living under a rock for about 30 years. Rock n Roll hall of famer, 20 million records sold, etc… The drummer and keyboard player in her band played with Bob Dylan. This was the real deal. Absolutely amazing show. It’s not every day you get to see that caliber of musicianship.

 

I think the coolest thing about the day was the roadcases. I’ve been doing this a while now, so I don’t get starstruck anymore, but these guys had cases that were handpainted for Bob Dylan, multi-colour spraypaint, stencils, really wild stuff. The bass played had a case labeled ‘Michael Jackson World Tour 1982’. Insane. You just don’t see stuff like that every day. It was really something and for some unknown reason, I didn’t think to take pictures. I’m a loser.

 

Again, it was a pretty low key day. The touring crew had everything nailed together and we really didn’t have to do a whole lot. It’s nice when that happens. Towards the end of the night, the Michael Franti techs came by to say hi and we started getting ready for tomorrow….