In conversation with Bonnie Raitt these days, one word continually jumps out: groove. She’s speaking of her music, of course, but the blues singer and guitarist—her gifts as commanding as ever on her latest, Dig In Deep—has also survived some family struggles in the past decade that nearly forced her out of her personal groove.
In 2004, Raitt lost her mother, Marjorie; a year later, her father, Broadway luminary John Raitt, died. Four years after that, her brother Steve died of brain cancer at 61. After a seven-year sabbatical that many fans worried might become permanent, Raitt returned in 2012, sounding re-energized, to release Slipstream, which won that year’s Grammy for Best Americana Album. Raitt is now fully back in the cycle of recording and touring, the rhythm that has…
