Blues for Good

Few contemporary pop songs elicit such gut-wrenching emotion, than that felt by any dejected, middle-aged woman while listening to "I Can't Make You Love Me" as performed by bluesy skunk-striped Bonnie Raitt. But Raitt isn't only beloved in the forties female demographic. The songstress earns high praise among fellow musicians...

By Merritt Martin

March 5, 2009

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Few contemporary pop songs elicit such gut-wrenching emotion, than that felt by any dejected, middle-aged woman while listening to "I Can't Make You Love Me" as performed by bluesy skunk-striped Bonnie Raitt. But Raitt isn't only beloved in the forties female demographic. The songstress earns high praise among fellow musicians (check out Bonnie Raitt and Friends) as well as the social activism community. Her iconic voice can manipulate lyrics, her fingers own her six-string and, hopefully, she can make some bank for Special Care & Career Services (whose aim is to help developmentally disabled kids and adults live within the community) when she headlines its eighth annual fundraising event: A Special Evening with Bonnie Raitt. Tickets to the public concert at the Morton Meyerson Symphony Center--8:30 p.m. Monday--are $50 to $225. Call 1-800-595-4TIX or visit specialcarecareer.org.
Mon., March 9, 8 p.m., 2009

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Merritt Martin has written for the Dallas Observer for over two decades. She has also contributed to Eater, DMN and USA Today. In addition to arts and culture writing, she spends entirely too much time extolling the virtues of pears, black clothing, and her cat Kenneth.

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