A word of advice: If, someday, you’re a respected and successful guitarist, singer-songwriter, and veteran of the American blues scene, don’t record a song called “Something To Talk About” and release it as a single and have it become a huge hit and win a Grammy award, OK?
Because if you do, corny journalists (and I count myself among them) will pound that title to death with their headlines, even two decades later. From Bonnie Raitt’s press page:
-“Bonnie Raitt’s biofuel tour bus is something to talk about” by Dave Forster, The Virginian-Pilot, 4/22/07
-“Bonnie Raitt gives musicians, fans something to talk about” by Bruce R. Miller, Sioux City Journal, 8/25/06
-“Raitt at Wolf Trap: Something to Talk About” by Pamela Murray Winters, Washington Post, 7/5/06
-“Raitt’s concert something to talk about” by Josef Woodward, Santa Barbara News-Press, 2/15/06
-“Something to talk about: Inductees John and Bonnie Raitt” by Rob Lowman, The Daily News, 6/28/01
Yeesh.
Raitt and fellow blues legend Taj Mahal will bring their joint tour to Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater on Saturday. Here they are performing on “The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson” a couple weeks ago:
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