While we’re getting a big kick out of the wild AI renderings and outrageous fake stories being circulated by creepy bot accounts on Facebook, we do want to acknowledge that the misinformation about Bonnie’s career, family, politics and philanthropy being spread by these accounts is harmful and misleading. There seems to be an uptick of these posts reaching the algorithm of Bonnie’s audience over the last 48 hours (at least) and we are aware of it and want to clarify a few things:

— There is not a Netflix documentary about Bonnie Raitt in the works.
— Bonnie is not doing a “farewell tour” or releasing a “farewell album.”
— She is not performing at Rockefeller Center in December 2025.
— Her brother was not a victim of the tragic UPS plane crash in Louisville on November 4, 2025.
— Bonnie is not in a Twitter spat with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt or making posts about immigration policy and the like.
— Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne have not been asked to perform at TPUSA’s “The All-American Halftime Show.”

When there is new information about Bonnie’s music and touring activity that she wants to share with the world, that information will be posted on her official website http://www.bonnieraitt.com and her official social media channels that carry the blue verified check mark next to her name. Please do not engage with the posts being made by those deceitful accounts masquerading as genuine as that only encourages them to spread more misinformation. Please don’t ever be faked into believing that Bonnie Raitt is in your Direct Messages chatting with you one-one-one personally. Here are Bonnie’s official social channels which will be the only location you’ll see information truly coming from her and her team. We thank you for weathering this AI storm with us! — BRHQ

Facebook: @officialbonnieraitt
Instagram: @bonnieraittofficial
Twitter / X: @TheBonnieRaitt
TikTok: @bonnieraittofficial
Bluesky: @bonnieraitt.bsky.social
YouTube: @TheBonnieRaitt

Photo by Hans Tak/Courtesy of Holland International Blues Festival(June 20, 2025)

Bonnie and her dear friend Jimmie Vaughan had a blast on tour together this past summer. We created a poster to commemorate the Tried & True Tour and one lucky winner will be chosen to receive this special poster hand-signed by both Bonnie and Jimmie! Enter the contest at http://www.bonnieraitt.com/members. We will be accepting entries until November 25, 2025 at 11:59 pm EST. Good luck to all!

NOTE: To improve how we service our fans we have made a few updates to the membership system. To participate in the contest and any future Fan Presales and Special Benefit Seat sales for Bonnie’s tour, you will need to create a NEW membership account (even if you had one previously.)

To create your free account, simply visit http://www.bonnieraitt.com/members, click the “Create an Account” link below the Member Login area. Once you create your details and click “Register,” you are good to go and will NOT be sent a confirmation email.
– BRHQ

Bonnie was thrilled to join The Bros. Landreth (from whom she got her hit, “Made Up Mind,” on Just Like That…) on their soulful new single, “Knuckles,” just released from their terrific upcoming new album, DOG EAR.

Here’s a link to check it out! https://lnk.to/knucklesbros

Bonnie Raitt Charmed and Enthralled Crowd at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun Arena; Teamed Up with Opener Jimmie Vaughan for an Exuberant Encore
By Matt Friedlander, American Songwriter
https://americansongwriter.com/concert-review-bonnie-raitt-charmed-and-enthralled-crowd-at-connecticuts-mohegan-sun-arena-teamed-up-with-opener-jimmie-vaughan-for-an-exuberant-encore/

Bonnie Raitt at CMAC – Still in the Pocket and Giving a Damn
By Robert Dean, CosmicClash.com
https://thecosmicclash.com/2025/08/27/live-music-review-bonnie-raitt-at-cmac-still-in-the-pocket-and-giving-a-damn/

Photo by Hilary Scott/Courtesy of Boston Symphony Orchestra

Bonnie was invited to join CNN’s Chief Climate Correspondent, Bill Weir to discuss how artists can address the climate crisis through action taken at their own concerts. Go behind the scenes of music’s green revolution!

Stream the CNN Original Series ‘The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper’ now on HBO Max. Season 3, Episode 17 “Change Amplified: Live Music and the Climate Crisis” features interviews with Bonnie, Billie Eilish and Maggie Baird, Jack Johnson, Perry Farrell, Adam Gardner and Lauren Sullivan of @reverb and Adam Met of @ajr. https://tinyurl.com/bdfmvrk3

Please remember that social media can be a wonderful place to share pictures, memories, thoughts, opinions and more but it can also be a breeding ground for predators trying to scam people and in our case, doing things like making fake social media accounts and posing as Bonnie Raitt or members of her team, asking to connect with you personally on Telegram, LinkedIn or other sites, trying to engage with you, and even doing things like offering concert tickets or a chance to meet Bonnie.

We want you to know that Bonnie and her team will never try to reach you personally through social media unless the message comes from one of her official accounts (@officialbonnieraitt on Facebook and @bonnieraittofficial on Instagram, both verified with the blue check mark.) Most importantly, we ask you to please take caution and do not share your personal information with anyone claiming to have any connection to Bonnie Raitt, or claiming to be her. There is no circumstance under which we would ever request payment or access to sensitive information. Be aware of scammers and don’t engage!

Bonnie is so grateful for the wonderful fans who have supported her music and career over these many decades. It’s both frustrating and painful to know there are nefarious people online attempting to take advantage of her fans. If you see scammers in the comments on Bonnie’s posts or in your direct messages, DO NOT engage, but DO block and report! Each and every time you block and report one of these fake accounts, you are helping keep our community safe.

Thank you!
— BRHQ

Instagram: @bonnieraittofficial
Facebook: @officialbonnieraitt
Twitter / X: @TheBonnieRaitt
TikTok: @bonnieraittofficial
Bluesky: @bonnieraitt.bsky.social
YouTube: @TheBonnieRaitt

We’re sharing some of the wonderful reviews that have come in from our Ireland/Scotland/England dates this past month. So glad the audiences have been loving the shows. We love them right back!

Many thanks to the reviewers.
Photo by Jason Barker Photography

DUBLIN:
https://www.bonnieraitt.com/the-irish-times-bonnie-raitt-in-vicar-street-a-healing-night-of-welcome-warmth-and-real-soul/

MANCHESTER:
https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/bonnie-raitt-review/

NOTTINGHAM:
https://www.ukmusicreviews.co.uk/gigreviews/gig-review-bonnie-raitt-2/

EDINBURGH:
https://discoverymusicscotland.com/gig-review-bonnie-raitt-usher-hall/

WOLVERHAMPTON:
https://www.gettothefront.co.uk/bonnie-raitt-wolverhampton-civic-hall-14-june/

LONDON:
https://bluesmatters.com/bonnie-raitt-royal-albert-hall-london-june-2025/

Reviewed by Pat Carty for The Irish Times
Wed Jun 04 2025
Photograph: Erika Goldring/Getty Images for Americana Music Association

Bonnie Raitt
Vicar Street
★★★★☆
“Ireland in any weather is beautiful to me.” Bonnie Raitt is telling Vicar Street about the nine-day break she took here, surrounded by sheep, before playing Belfast on Sunday night. The rest surely did her good because she’s in rare form tonight.

She hits an early highlight with the rattling, barrelhouse groove of Thing Called Love, a song originally on John Hiatt’s Bring The Family. That album featured the slide guitar of Ry Cooder but even he’d have to bow to Raitt’s playing as she tosses off an effortless swamp porch solo, knife blade sharp and smooth as molasses, from the battered Stratocaster she apparently bought for $120 back in 1969. And she’s got that voice to go with it.

Take Mabel John’s 1966 classic Your Good Thing (Is About To End). Raitt, brimming over with pleading soul, stretches out vowels, holds notes until her vibrato is on the verge of cracking, and when that voice has finally had enough of the uncaring man in the lyric, her slide guitar takes over to show him the door.

An almost supernaturally intuitive interpreter of songs, Raitt delivers an achingly beautiful take on Richard Thompson’s Dimming Of The Day, a called-for Angel Of Montgomery by John Prine (“Nobody cut through like John”), and twists Dylan’s Million Miles inside out with a glint in her eye as she implores her baby to “rock me for a couple of months”. Then she bests them all by bringing the house to its feet with the encore’s I Can’t Make You Love Me, a tale of broken love familiar to every knocked-about heart.

Raitt makes several bows to old friend Paul Brady, in the audience having the same good time as the rest of us. First she claims she’s nervous with him watching, then declares it an honour. When asked to sit in he allegedly replied, “You can’t afford me,” but with the greatest respect to the man from Strabane, she doesn’t need him as she commandeers his Not The Only One and Steal Your Heart Away, making them her own.

But Raitt also knows how to write a song. Nick Of Time, the title track from the 1989 album that finally made her an overnight success 18 years after her debut, is one thing with its great lyric about getting on a bit (“Those lines are pretty hard to take when they’re staring back at you”). Just Like That is something else entirely.

To the surprise of many, including the other nominees and Raitt herself, she won the Grammy for Song Of The Year with it a few years back but the judges were right, for once. A woman who lost her son is visited by the man who lives on thanks to her child’s transplanted heart. It’s moving on record but it’s devastating live. In that inexplicable way a song you’ve heard before can sneak back up on you, Raitt gets to the line where she lays her head on his chest and she’s with her boy again and you’re gutted by the lyric’s power. “They say Jesus brings you peace and grace, well he ain’t found me yet,” has a similar effect.

Raitt calls her show “a healing experience in this suffering, hard-assed world” and that’s what it is, whether she and her superlative four-piece band are transforming the room into a rambunctious roadhouse or a hushed confessional. A night of welcome warmth and real soul. There aren’t many like her.

By Anastasia Stanmeyer

Bonnie was interviewed for the May/June 2025 Summer cultural issue of Berkshire Magazine to preview her August 31st performance at Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox. MA! Read an excerpt here and pick up a copy on newsstands in Massachusetts this month!

https://www.bonnieraitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Preview-only-Berkshire-Magazine-Summer-2025-feature-30-31.pdf

Tanglewood tickets available at https://www.bso.org/events/bonnie-raitt-2025

May 1, 2025
As told to Rachel Keenan

Going back out on tour, the 13-time Grammy winner recalls stark inspirations and steamy studio sessions as she answers your questions.
READ IN FULL HERE: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/01/bonnie-raitt-activism-making-men-cry-38-years-of-sobriety