Music Video Of the Week

 

"Good Enough," Bonnie Raitt 

Bonnie Raitt had been a fixture of blues-based rock long before her spectacular mainstream success with her 1989 album Nick of Time and her 1991 follow-up, Luck of the Draw.  The hippest rock fans of the seventies knew she was an ace blues-rock guitarist on par with Eric Clapton and Stephen Stills, even if that didn't translate into record sales before 1989.

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Raitt's fifth album, Home Plate, an album comprised entirely of covers and outsider originals.  (Its highest chart position was number 43.)   "Good Enough," the album's second song, was written by John Hall of Orleans and his wife Johanna, and Hall in fact played guitar on Home Plate.   

This clip, my Music Video Of the Week, is Bonnie and her band playing "Good Enough" in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.  It's more than good enough; it's wonderful.  Because it's Bonnie Raitt.  Enjoy.