Song of the Day: Bonnie Rates a Grammy

Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books and now writer/director of award-winning films. He was also a longtime editor of the legendary Crawdaddy.

Have to say, didn’t really expect Bonnie Raitt to nail a Grammy nod—ceremony coming in a week or so—in its arguably top category, Song of the Year. Now, it’s true, like the Oscars, they expanded the list from 5 to 10 to please more fans, but still she is up there with the much younger Taylor Swift, Adele, Harry Styles, Lizzo and Kendrick Lamar. Even so you may be totally unaware of the nominated song, “Just Like That,” from the “comeback” album of the same name, so I’ve posted it below (and she wrote it herself). She is also up for a Grammy for a different song on the same album, “Made Up Mind,” in Best Americana performance, a new category, so you will find that also, plus a new song as good as any, “Blame It On Me,'“ live on Colbert. Then the daily Political Cartoon way down below.

Bonus: Article by David Rensin on Bonnie in…1973….in Crawdaddy which I edited. She was 22 and already politically involved.

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“Just Like That,” folks

Made Up Mind

“Blame It On Me”

Cartoon of the Day

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Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the bestseller The Tunnels (on escapes under the Berlin Wall), The Beginning or the End (on MGM’s atomic bomb movie twisted by the White House and Pentagon), and The Campaign of the Century (on Upton Sinclair’s left-wing race for governor of California), which was recently picked by the Wall St. Journal as one of five greatest books ever about an election. His 2021 film, Atomic Cover-up, won four awards, and his current one, The First Attack Ads, aired over hundreds of PBS stations this past fall. For nearly all of the 1970s he was the #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. Later he served as longtime editor of Editor & Publisher. He recently co-produced a film about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.