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‘Do something with your actions. Don’t just write a cheque’: Bonnie Raitt on activism, making men cry and 38 years of sobriety

Going back out on tour, the 13-time Grammy winner recalls stark inspirations and steamy studio sessions as she answers your questions

I certainly didn’t expect to win song of the year at the Grammys [beating Adele, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Harry Styles, Taylor Swift and more], nor did anybody else on planet Earth! I really wanted the power of Bob Dylan’s music, and his influence early in the 60s, to be experienced by this newer generation, so I’m grateful that the film was made and has had this success, because my life was changed when I was 13 and his first album came out. DavidEverard Hats off to the UK, and Holland, for appreciating Little Feat and Ry Cooder and Randy Newman: artists that did not get a proper mind-blowing fandom in the States as they deserved.

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