The line is "I ain't no porcupine, take off your kid gloves..." Kid gloves basically means something you handle gently... Bonnie is a national treasure... Great reactions
I was so excited when I saw that Britt was reacting to this as I just assumed and then was disappointed that it was not the official video. Dennis Quaid was so freakin’ adorable in it❤️
She ranked No. 50 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time", and ranked No. 89 on the magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
I had the opportunity to meet Bonnie Raitt and Muddy Waters years back a year before Muddy Waters passed away, it was a chance of a life time. My friend won some tickets to a blues concert and she couldn't go cause her husband got sick so she asked me if I would like to go and see Bonnie Raitt at first I was like who could I get to go with me I don't know too many people that like blues music 🎶🎼 so I found a co-worker that was willing to just to get away for a weekend. Little did we know those tickets turned out to be winners for a meet and greet with back stage passes that day my friend was so bummed out that she missed out on meeting Bonnie Raitt and Muddy Waters that day. I have pictures of being on Bonnie Raitt's tour buss and having my picture taken with her but I got an autographed picture of Bonnie and Muddy for my friend and thanked her for a chance of a life time.
Bonnie knows she is one of the best. But she is a humble soul. She is first and foremost an incredible caring woman. Nevermind her unending talent. She rakes the slide with the best.
Her father John was a famous Broadway singer. If you want entertainment, look up the David Letterman clip where, throughout one of the shows, John and Bonnie would come out and belt out a few lines from shows like Oklahoma and then be gone. It was classic.
Bonnie is bar non one of their best slide guitarist. Full stop. Listen to her cover of Bob Dylan’s Standing in the Doorway, or to one of her older songs Love Has No Pride. Little different than the more commercial songs. Bonnie is a force, she is complex, and she is amazing.
I've been listening and loving Bonnie for 52 years!! She is my favorite female blues artist and that slide guitar? Oh my! Her earliest work is the blues-iest and raw-ist. Check them out especially if you dig the vinyl sound. You're right - she is IT and is so humble. I had the pleasure of seeing her perform in New Orleans and ALWAYS has the best band. BTW, her dad was an accomplished Broadway performer. Her SASS cannot be matched.
Bonnie is probably the only singer I've seen that could hang with Aretha in those women of rock shows that used to come around. Everyone else would always be outclassed. Super slide player too.
Kid Gloves were gloves made from kid (baby goat) skin...very soft and fragile, but she's speaking metaphorically. "She aint no porcupine"...he (or she) can touch her without getting hurt (damaging the "gloves")
Have you done Bonnie’s signature song, “Angel from Montgomery?” If not, i’m sure you’d vibe with it. I call it one of the saddest songs ever written, but in a beautiful way
I LOVE that song...the whole Nick of Time album is fantastic. And if you want to cry your eyes out...listen to "I Can't Make You Love Me" - saddest sing ever 😢
You're right about Bonnie being "at the table". In fact, most artists would drive to her house, pick her up, and hand-deliver her to her seat at the table. She's genuine.
Miss Bonnie be gettin' nasty with that slide geetar here! This song embodies all the universal emotions Bonnie sings about - lust, unrequited love, longing, rage. She makes music for intelligent grownups, and this is a song for intelligent, mature grownups. Go Bonnie! I'd also recommend "Love Sneakin' Up On You." That sliiide geetar funk blues is fantastic.
"Kid gloves" gloves made of kid leather (soft baby goat skin) usually worn for delicate or fine purposes. "Handle with kid gloves" meant to treat gently. She's saying that she doesn't need to be handled with care 😀
"I ain't no porcupine, take off your kid gloves. She was just the image of cool. Rolling Stone named Bonnie as one of the top 100 singers of all time and 1of the top 100 Guitarists of all time. 10 time Grammy winner, Just a side note; many people know her father John Raitt from Broadway; you know things like Oklahoma, Carousel, Pajama Game, her mother was a well known pianist. She got great roots for sure. Add all that to Quaker traditions and boom Bonnie. Love Bonnie her music and her activism.
Loved your reaction as always, Britt. ❤ I think the porcupine/kid-glove line is Bonnie saying I'm ready to rough it up a bit with you. So stop holdin' back. 😉
Bonnie sang back up vocals for Little Feat, you should check out the video for Dixie Chicken, Miss Bonnie and another famous singer Emmy Lou Harris are in video as back up singers
I knew John wrote it (RIP), but have never heard the Susan Tedeschi's version. I'll check it out. I have heard the Lyle Lovett, Bonnie cut, that's breath taking.
Bonnie Raitt is still sexy as hell! Check out her cover of INXS song Need You Tonight, and also her cover of Steve Winwood's song Can't Find My Way Home (about 30 years ago or more). That last one was a jam that sounded like it was on a radio show. Too cool!
Song written by her friend John Hiatt. She owns this. He has a great version with either Ry Cooder or Sonny Landreth on slide. Great writer/performer himself. Check out something like "Lipstick Sunset"
A woman named Alice Stuart passed away a couple weeks back, blues legend Taj Mahal said of Alice "She plowed the road Bonnie Raitt walked down". She was also an early member of her then boyfriend Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Check her out folks, she deserves some love.
Kid gloves - "used in reference to careful and delicate treatment of a person or situation." In other words...well... Yeah, she can keep up and surpass.
Hey there..! Don't Let Go and You Can Have Her - Roy Hamilton Hickory Hollow's Tramp - O C Smith Tragedy - Thomas Wayne First We Take Manhattan - Leonard Cohen Seven Year Ache - Roseann Cash Mr Blue - The Fleetwoods Lonely Teardrops - Jackie Wilson Switching to instrumentals The Lonely Surfer - Jack Nitzsche Huapango - de Moncayo Enjoy!
Kid gloves are made of Kidskin. "Kids" are young goats. Their leather is VERY soft. Kid gloves are used for touching things that require a soft touch. Bonnie is saying that she doesn't need to be treated like fine china or a prickly porcupine. She's in the mood for a thing called love.
Written by the incomparable John Hiatt. There is a line in the original John Hiatt that Ms. Raitt leaves out. Right near the end of the instrumental bridge, John says "Before the laws of God and the laws of man, I take you for my wife. To Love, honor, cherish, and obey. Now I never planned to live this kind of life, it just worked out that way."
Never been a country music fan beyond Cash and a single Ray album. Well aside from the Elvis honk tonk. But Bonnie, Cheryl C, Mellisa E and LeAnn with their hybrid versions caught my full attention! So greatly talented, Britt always spot on!
A good example of what other great musicians think of Bonnie, the Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughn concert and album had these greats invited to play - Jimmie Vaughan (older brother of SRV), Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Nile Rodgers (Chic & Producer), Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon, Reese Wynans (the last three were in the SRV’s Double Trouble band).
Try "Woman be Wise" off her first album..a long time ago. I have had a celebrity crush on her going all the way back. I have a rather long list of folk, living, and dead, I would like to drink coffee with, for an hour or two. Just to listen to: Ghandi, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Obama, Dr King, Lincoln, Ringo...etc..call me crazy..
The line is "I ain't no porcupine, take off your kid gloves..." Kid gloves basically means something you handle gently... Bonnie is a national treasure... Great reactions
Kid Gloves are softened kid leather...baby goat. Soft, delicate goat leather.
Please note how great of a guitar/slide guitar player she is!
"I ain't no porcupine, take off your kid gloves". The music video is so much fun. The actor Dennis Quade is in it.
I was so excited when I saw that Britt was reacting to this as I just assumed and then was disappointed that it was not the official video. Dennis Quaid was so freakin’ adorable in it❤️
She ranked No. 50 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time", and ranked No. 89 on the magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
I’ve always LOVED Bonnie Raitt’s voice. That woman is a treasure!
The song writer, John Hiatt, is also worth checking out. Lots of good songs.
Saw John with Lyle Lovett. Just two guys with guitar telling stories and trading songs. Great show.
I had the opportunity to meet Bonnie Raitt and Muddy Waters years back a year before Muddy Waters passed away, it was a chance of a life time. My friend won some tickets to a blues concert and she couldn't go cause her husband got sick so she asked me if I would like to go and see Bonnie Raitt at first I was like who could I get to go with me I don't know too many people that like blues music 🎶🎼 so I found a co-worker that was willing to just to get away for a weekend. Little did we know those tickets turned out to be winners for a meet and greet with back stage passes that day my friend was so bummed out that she missed out on meeting Bonnie Raitt and Muddy Waters that day. I have pictures of being on Bonnie Raitt's tour buss and having my picture taken with her but I got an autographed picture of Bonnie and Muddy for my friend and thanked her for a chance of a life time.
Bonnie Raitt is one of the top guitarist in the world.
Bonnie is a great guitarist in her own right... no one but Bonnie can hang with bands like little feat and not miss a beat.
Bonnie knows she is one of the best. But she is a humble soul. She is first and foremost an incredible caring woman. Nevermind her unending talent. She rakes the slide with the best.
Bonnie doesn’t have a seat at the table, she owns the damn table. One of the greatest!
Her father John was a famous Broadway singer. If you want entertainment, look up the David Letterman clip where, throughout one of the shows, John and Bonnie would come out and belt out a few lines from shows like Oklahoma and then be gone. It was classic.
I remember that. It was a great gimmick.
Bonnie is bar non one of their best slide guitarist. Full stop. Listen to her cover of Bob Dylan’s Standing in the Doorway, or to one of her older songs Love Has No Pride. Little different than the more commercial songs. Bonnie is a force, she is complex, and she is amazing.
I've been listening and loving Bonnie for 52 years!! She is my favorite female blues artist and that slide guitar? Oh my! Her earliest work is the blues-iest and raw-ist. Check them out especially if you dig the vinyl sound. You're right - she is IT and is so humble. I had the pleasure of seeing her perform in New Orleans and ALWAYS has the best band. BTW, her dad was an accomplished Broadway performer. Her SASS cannot be matched.
Bonnie is probably the only singer I've seen that could hang with Aretha in those women of rock shows that used to come around. Everyone else would always be outclassed. Super slide player too.
Queen of the slide guitar!!
I have loved Bonnie for decades
She has such an incredible voice ...it gives me chills... And love her bottle neck .. And oh yes, she can hang~
Great performer! I love her collaboration with John Prine on Angel From Montgomery.
Britt ive liked Bonnie for a really long time. Great voice & great guitarist
Kid Gloves were gloves made from kid (baby goat) skin...very soft and fragile, but she's speaking metaphorically. "She aint no porcupine"...he (or she) can touch her without getting hurt (damaging the "gloves")
🎼🎼🖤🦊🖤🎼🎼 .. she is the bomb !! Very cool song .. great vibe and killer guitar skills. Very good choice Britt 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
She has been around a long time...I seen her 4 times in concert..she is the best slide guitarist
Have you done Bonnie’s signature song, “Angel from Montgomery?” If not, i’m sure you’d vibe with it. I call it one of the saddest songs ever written, but in a beautiful way
If you liked this one, you might enjoy Bonnie's "Love Letter." Criminally overlooked. Great reactions, keep them coming!
I will keep it in mind, thanks!
One of my absolute favorites!!!
I LOVE that song...the whole Nick of Time album is fantastic.
And if you want to cry your eyes out...listen to "I Can't Make You Love Me" - saddest sing ever 😢
One of my favorite Bonnie Raitt songs. She's so cool!
It's a great song and yes she is!!
Song written by John Hiatt. He's another worthwhile rabbit hole.
You're right about Bonnie being "at the table". In fact, most artists would drive to her house, pick her up, and hand-deliver her to her seat at the table. She's genuine.
She's Bonafide!
YESSSS BABY ❤️🔥🥰💋
Bonnie is from a very musical family. Both parents famous opera singers.
Miss Bonnie be gettin' nasty with that slide geetar here! This song embodies all the universal emotions Bonnie sings about - lust, unrequited love, longing, rage. She makes music for intelligent grownups, and this is a song for intelligent, mature grownups. Go Bonnie! I'd also recommend "Love Sneakin' Up On You." That sliiide geetar funk blues is fantastic.
Check out her duet with old time bluesman John Lee Hooker, I'm In the Mood. Also her cover of Roy Orbison's (Anything You Want) You Got It.
My favorite Bonnie song is "If I fell for you.". Original done by Lennie Welch. I still have her first album from 1972.
She’s got swagger.
"Kid gloves" gloves made of kid leather (soft baby goat skin) usually worn for delicate or fine purposes. "Handle with kid gloves" meant to treat gently. She's saying that she doesn't need to be handled with care 😀
BONNIE is the Queen of Blues, she's been around since the 60s. And there isn't a female slide guitarist that can complete with her.
"I ain't no porcupine, take off your kid gloves. She was just the image of cool. Rolling Stone named Bonnie as one of the top 100 singers of all time and 1of the top 100 Guitarists of all time. 10 time Grammy winner, Just a side note; many people know her father John Raitt from Broadway; you know things like Oklahoma, Carousel, Pajama Game, her mother was a well known pianist. She got great roots for sure. Add all that to Quaker traditions and boom Bonnie. Love Bonnie her music and her activism.
Check out Bonnie and Lowell George (Little Feat) recordings from WAY back in the day
bonnie has collaberated with lots of folks. my favorite is sheryl crow, mavis staples, and bonnie singing 'livewire' on the ellen show.
thanks for letting me know!
For some reason, I think she did perform WITH Aretha, back in the late 70s, early 80s.
Loved your reaction as always, Britt. ❤
I think the porcupine/kid-glove line is Bonnie saying I'm ready to rough it up a bit with you. So stop holdin' back. 😉
BRITT, AS USUAL YOU ARE LATE TO THE PARTY!!!!!EVERYONE ELSE HAS LOVED "BONNIE" FOR YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bonnie comes by her singing chops honestly. Her dad was John Raitt a Broadway musicl star in the 50's and 60's
Bonnie sang back up vocals for Little Feat, you should check out the video for Dixie Chicken, Miss Bonnie and another famous singer Emmy Lou Harris are in video as back up singers
in my next life i want to come back as Bonnie,so I can feel how being cool feels.
Angel from Montgomery is a classic from Bonnie.
From John Prine. Bonnie covered it and made it her own but don't discount Susan Tedeschi's version too!
I knew John wrote it (RIP), but have never heard the Susan Tedeschi's version. I'll check it out. I have heard the Lyle Lovett, Bonnie cut, that's breath taking.
Bonnie Raitt is still sexy as hell! Check out her cover of INXS song Need You Tonight, and also her cover of Steve Winwood's song Can't Find My Way Home (about 30 years ago or more). That last one was a jam that sounded like it was on a radio show. Too cool!
Girl, Bonnie had a place at the table s long time.😊
Bonnie is somethin else! I have always loved her music. Her talent is outstanding!
"sassification"
Love it! 😂💕
Bonnie Raitt can Plllaaaaaaaaayy and Ssaaanng!!!
Bonnie Great!! That's it, that's all!
Song written by her friend John Hiatt. She owns this. He has a great version with either Ry Cooder or Sonny Landreth on slide. Great writer/performer himself. Check out something like "Lipstick Sunset"
You got Bonnie 100%
Bonnie left college in her 20's to play with and learn from surviving blues masters such as Mississippi Fred McDowell, Son House, and John Lee Hooker.
"Kid Gloves" - thake off your kid gloves. a great follow up on Bonnie Raidt would be "Blender Blues"
Great reaction! You're right , she is sooo cool!
That little half step is called adding "tension" in a scale. Just off key drags the ear of the listener.
Kid gloves (an old saying)you should check out Runaway A cover she did early on.
check out some of her songs after this one, especially Tangled and Dark and Feeling of Falling....you get the true funk of Ms B's soul
had the pleasure to see Bonnie play live with both Eric Clapton and Jeff Healey and she took no backseat to either..............legend
If you like that, and let's face it, why wouldn't you? You'll like Wynnona Judd singing "when love start's talking." It's got a great video too. ❤
Kid gloves are very soft leather gloves. to "treat someone with Kid gloves" is to treat them gently, as if they are fragile.
A woman named Alice Stuart passed away a couple weeks back, blues legend Taj Mahal said of Alice "She plowed the road Bonnie Raitt walked down". She was also an early member of her then boyfriend Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Check her out folks, she deserves some love.
Kid gloves - "used in reference to careful and delicate treatment of a person or situation." In other words...well...
Yeah, she can keep up and surpass.
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“Nick of Time”
Hey there..!
Don't Let Go and You Can Have Her - Roy Hamilton
Hickory Hollow's Tramp - O C Smith
Tragedy - Thomas Wayne
First We Take Manhattan - Leonard Cohen
Seven Year Ache - Roseann Cash
Mr Blue - The Fleetwoods
Lonely Teardrops - Jackie Wilson
Switching to instrumentals
The Lonely Surfer - Jack Nitzsche
Huapango - de Moncayo
Enjoy!
You need to check out. Just Like That...her Grammy Winning Song ...but I warn you bring the tissues
You've got to listen to her title album BONNIE RAITT.
I admit it i crush on this lady ! 🔥🔥
Kid gloves are made of Kidskin. "Kids" are young goats. Their leather is VERY soft. Kid gloves are used for touching things that require a soft touch. Bonnie is saying that she doesn't need to be treated like fine china or a prickly porcupine. She's in the mood for a thing called love.
Written by the incomparable John Hiatt. There is a line in the original John Hiatt that Ms. Raitt leaves out.
Right near the end of the instrumental bridge, John says "Before the laws of God and the laws of man, I take you for my wife. To Love, honor, cherish, and obey.
Now I never planned to live this kind of life, it just worked out that way."
Awesome performance. She is great!!😅
agreed!
Give the judds a listen love your show
Sent with 10000% respect ... your hair today is fabulous!
Don't you dare crush my dreams!! 🤣😂🤣
Written by John Hiatt. - amazing songwriter
thanks for letting me know!
Never been a country music fan beyond Cash and a single Ray album. Well aside from the Elvis honk tonk.
But Bonnie, Cheryl C, Mellisa E and LeAnn with their hybrid versions caught my full attention!
So greatly talented,
Britt always spot on!
My favorite redhead!!!
Kid gloves. I think she’s basically saying don’t be afraid to put your hands on her. Nobody’s going to get hurt.
B.B. King said one of the Best if Not the Best Bottle Neck Players he loved her....
It's called "Cajun" influence, she is a southern girl.
Southern California that is.
She did a duet with John Lee Hooker. Worth checking out.
You really need to cover her biggest song, "angel from Montgomery "!
I will keep it in mind, thanks!
She writes these lyrics, right? Really amazingly good
She wants NOT to be handled with kid gloves. She wants him to put his hands on her. Smart woman!
Bonnie is from a blues background. Listen to Give it up or let me go!
A good example of what other great musicians think of Bonnie, the Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughn concert and album had these greats invited to play - Jimmie Vaughan (older brother of SRV), Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Nile Rodgers (Chic & Producer), Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon, Reese Wynans (the last three were in the SRV’s Double Trouble band).
"Take of your kid gloves" meaning: I don't need to be handled gently - i.e. "give it to me"
Try "Woman be Wise" off her first album..a long time ago. I have had a celebrity crush on her going all the way back. I have a rather long list of folk, living, and dead, I would like to drink coffee with, for an hour or two. Just to listen to: Ghandi, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Obama, Dr King, Lincoln, Ringo...etc..call me crazy..
Kid Gloves
I think it's 'kid gloves'
A good bluesy jam about The King…Black Velvet by Allanah Myles
BRITT, YOU NEED TO FIND "ELVIS" "TAKE MY HAND PRECIOUS LORD" YOU WILL CRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will keep it in mind, thanks!
Bonnie paved the way for singers like Susan Tedeschi
She is amazing. Now you need to listen to "I believe in a thing called love" by the Darkness
Would love you to react to Jimmy Barnes voice. Too much ain’t enough
"Take off your Kid Gloves" . An older saying meaning that don't be so gentle. I'm not going to break.
Robert Cray "Smoking Gun"...Nuff Said.
I will keep it in mind, thanks!
@brittreacts You are more than welcome my music lovin' sister.
i feel like Bonnie is a little Caribbean mixed with blues and rockabilly...any rocker knows who Bonnie is ...
Love Love Love Bonnie!!! I would love for her to get together with Eric Clapton and do a song or album.