Bonnie Raitt

First off, let's talk about how Bonnie Raitt is an absolute legend. If you haven't listened to her self-titled album from 1971 or her 1989 Grammy-winning ...

[February 6, 2023] But then, First Lady Jill Biden announced her song, and Raitt’s jaw dropped.

Bonnie Raitt accepts the Song of the Year award during the 65th GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles, California in January 2023. Timothy Norris/FilmMagic. By Andrew ...

But “Just Like That” matters because it tells a unique story from an oft-ignored perspective—and because it’s a flat-out beautiful song that Adele, Taylor Swift, or Beyoncé would be proud to have written. “As we age, nearly all women notice that they become somewhat invisible in the world, but in the golden era of the women’s film, older women really were expected to fade quietly into the wallpaper,” she wrote. Last week, TIME film critic Stephanie Zacharek wrote a piece pegged to the new film 80 For Brady about how the stories of older women have long mattered little to wider culture. It’s entirely possible that many older voters saw her solo name and picked as a rejoinder to a new era of pop songs written by committee. But all of this analysis ignores the quality of the song itself. A vote for Raitt, then, was a vote not just for the song, but for a generation, as well as a non-digital, highly personal approach to music. It has one-sixtieth the number of Spotify streams as the second-least streamed song in the category, DJ Khaled’s “GOD DID.” To many, its victory was a perfect example of the Grammys being out of touch. Raitt was also likely aided by the fact that her connection with the Grammys is long and deep. She serves as a bridge both to an older generation and a younger one. That critique is partly true: the song absolutely benefited from older Grammy voters who look upon music industry changes with contempt and long for the good old days. Raitt’s victory—which came at the expense of pop titans like Beyoncé, Adele, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles—was one of the more notable upsets in recent Grammys history; even Raitt herself was stunned. “Stop giving random people awards challenge,” [wrote one user](https://twitter.com/hotpinkvegas/status/1622446940565782529).

Bonnie's tenth studio album "Nick of Time," topped out at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and was even chosen ...

And the kindness of the recipient, and what that must feel like for them." Indeed, Bonnie reflects on profound loss in "Just Like That." The lyrics then provide ample description of the moving story that Bonnie was inspired by. The man offered to allow the woman to put her head on his chest so that she could hear her son's heart beat again, and it moved the singer. "I just lost it," Bonnie told the publication "It was the most moving and surprising thing. The segment focused on a woman who donated her deceased child's organs and was about to meet the man who received his heart.

Bonnie Raitt has a theory about her shocking win at the 2023 Grammy Awards. It's not a great theory, but it's about the best she can do given the ...

[John Prine](https://tasteofcountry.com/tags/john-prine/) (in [April 2020](https://tasteofcountry.com/john-prine-dead-coronavirus/)) and I just wanted to write a song about what it feels like to tell the good news stories," she says. "Just Like That" is the title track of Raitt's 2022 album. Get the hell out of dodge," she squealed during [Just Like That,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skd0XR3twCA)" a song she says was inspired by the late John Prine. "It was like one of those dream states," Raitt shares. It's not a great theory, but it's about the best she can do, given the competition.

Inspired by a true story, the song tells of a long-grieving woman who meets the man who received her son's heart.

Raitt, who won a Grammy for Song of the Year at the awards on Sunday, first discovered her love of music at summer camp in the Adirondacks.

In her decades-long career, Raitt has won 13 Grammy awards, her first four in 1990, including for Album of the Year. You provide your essential support.You put the "public" in this public service. “It changed my life," said Raitt in a 2014 interview with Billboard magazine.

There were some head-scratching wins at the 2023 Grammys, but Raitt's big victory was perhaps the most confounding.

[February 6, 2023] [surprise winners](https://uproxx.com/music/grammy-winners-so-far-2023-full-winner-list/). Many people tweeted their displeasure that [Beyoncé](https://uproxx.com/music/beyonce-most-grammy-wins-all-time-record/) didn’t win Album Of The Year for Renaissance over [Harry Styles](https://uproxx.com/music/harry-styles-grammys-album-of-the-year-2023/). [February 6, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/GJdAIo38kk]

Bonnie Raitt attends the 65th Grammy Awards on February 05, 2023 in Los Angeles. FilmMagic. There was Lizzo's “About Damn Time.” There was Harry Styles' “As It ...

The Grammys, the association of my peers have been over and over so kind to me. I’m so lucky to do this for a living, and my fans are so loyal and the Academy has been so great to me. Raitt said given the “massively talented, great tunes that represented tremendous excitement of the public” with which “Just Like That” was in the running, she felt particularly proud that her “little record” struck a chord.

When Bonnie Raitt won the award for Song of the Year at the 2023 Grammys on Sunday night for her track Just Like That, some were shocked that the accolade ...

Bonnie has done her best to keep her personal life out of the spotlight. I just never even think about [aging], except when I'm asked all the time, "What's it like to get older in the business?" And the star has no plans to slow down any time soon. She also released a concert DVD in 2006. 'I just didn't want to be in that pressure. Bonnie's career continued to flourish during the early 2000s. 'You have to pay attention to your goals and your health and take care of yourself. The 73-year-old was destined to be a star from a young age. I didn't seek it and I wouldn't have wanted a hit record. She is seen in 1977 Bonnie has released a whopping 18 albums since she first entered the scene in 1970. She is seen in 1975

Bay Area musician Bonnie Raitt had never won a songwriting Grammy before Sunday night. Now she's won two, including song of the year. Advertisement.

Just Like That” was inspired by the story of a cardiac transplant recipient who let his donor's mother listen to her dead child's heartbeat.

“It is so precious a feeling, the deep, deep, deep love that I had for my son.” “She just walked over to me and she put her head on my chest while she was hugging me,” Hardy remembered. What is called “Bill’s Bell”' is rung after every successful heart transplant. Just getting on the heart transplant list is difficult and as of Sunday the federal transplant network had 3,343 would be recipients waiting. The need is close to 35,000 to 40,000. Similar encounters between mothers and heart transplant recipients can be found online by anybody in need of a little inspiration. “And the story was so simple and beautiful for these times.” She came to see him that October and a TV news crew was on hand when they met. I definitely was a happy mom.”Jenny Sullivan of Texas had a similar story. His heart went to Manny Hardy of Oklahoma, whose own heart was failing when he received a transplant on Father’s Day of 2020. The teen’s heart went to a man named Bobby Davis at Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute in North Carolina. [Bill Scruggs,](https://www.wcnc.com/article/features/mother-listens-sons-heart-donor-recipient/275-70f9f465-4359-4312-9dd7-820e93147479) when he was shot to death in 2019.

Few people were as dumbfounded as Bonnie Raitt when she won the prize for song of the year at the 65th Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 5.

Bonnie Raitt was seen for the first time after unexpectedly winning Song of the Year over a a star-studded field of nominees at the 2023 Grammy Awards.

'I’m really aware of how lucky I am and I feel like my responsibility is to get out there and say something fresh and new - for me and for the fans,' she said. Blown away: The performer said in her acceptance speech, 'I'm so surprised, I don't know what to say. 'I'm always really proud to be acknowledged,' she told People on the red carpet at the Crypto.com Arena. That's a big thing for me, so I'm very proud.' Raitt won her first four Grammy Awards with the success of the quintuple platinum album, in the categories Album Of The Year; Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female; and Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female. Bonnie Raitt was seen for the first time after unexpectedly winning Song of the Year over a a star-studded field of nominees at the 2023 Grammy Awards on Sunday.

Fans were in uproar in 2023, when she was described as an "unknown blues singer" by some publications, after winning a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, ...

During her second year of college, she left school for a semester and moved to Philadelphia with other local musicians. I just sat in my room and played my guitar." In 1989, after several years of relatively small commercial success, she finally had a major hit with her 10th studio album Nick of Time, including the song of the same name.