http://music.aol.com/musicstyles/classicrock.adp

Has a current promo package of 7 Bonnie Raitt videos.  A "behind the scenes" thingy, an interview, AOL studio performance footage of her current single from the new release "I Will Not Be Broken" as well as "I Don't Want Anything to Change" and "Two Lights In The Nighttime" also from her new release.  Personally, I'd pick Two Lights as the most prototypical Bonnie Raitt sound.

There's also footage of a duet with Jackson Browne on "World in Motion"  (Bonnie and Jackson together on tape, err, disc, err, hard drive!! Finally!!  Haven't seen them together since about ... 73?  When was No Nukes, anyway?) and a duet with Stevie Wonder on (his song) "I Wish" (I'd be happy to touch the hem of Stevie's garment, she gets to play guitar with him.  How cool is that?  And she knows it, too.  As they say: "You go, girl!")

None of these are necessarily the best performances of her career, nor the best songs of her career.  But it should give you an idea of who she is.

Now, aside from all this, the same AOL page has links to stuff from the new DVD release of The Concert For Bangladesh (the first stab at a large scale musical fundraiser, one show at Madison Square Garden in 1971, organized by George Harrison).  This is footage I haven't seen in ages, and includes a new (previously unreleased) track, which seems to be from rehearsal - "Come On In My Kitchen" featuring Leon Russell on piano (he was my adolescent idol, and this helped me remember why).  BTW - Clapton looks frighteningly young.

From the Bangladesh show, you can watch:  "That's The Way God Planned It" (featuring Billy Preston), "Come On In My Kitchen" (mentioned above, with Leon Russell), and "Something" (George Harrison).  I think I'm going to have to get this DVD.  I still regret that I was too young and poor to make it to the show.  At least I cut school the day the movie opened to see the first showing that afternoon.  LOL

There's also a Bob Dylan section, which includes his performance of "Just Like A Woman" from the Bangladesh show (as above - but you have to go through the Dylan link to get this clip), "One Too Many Mornings" from an unknown show back in the period where it seems The Band was his well, band.  And the "Subterranean Homesick Blues"  - partially a clip of that exercise in early music video (OK, well, film - if you want to be technical), part interview.

An excellent time waster, all around.

How could you have seen all 7 videos in under the 5 minutes since I posted that?