Bonnie Raitt / Francis Ford Coppola

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This month, musician Bonnie Raitt and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola were both honorees of the Kennedy Center for their contributions to American culture. We're revisiting interviews with both of them. First, blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Bonnie Raitt spoke with Terry Gross in 1996 about her early years, finding her blues sound. And Francis Ford Coppola told us in 2016 the story of casting Marlon Brando in The Godfather.

And film critic Justin Chang reviews two new movies: The Brutalist and Nickel Boys.

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0:00.0	This is Eric Glass.
0:01.5	On This American Life, we like stories that surprise you.
0:04.2	For instance, imagine finding a new hobby and realizing...
0:07.2	To do this hobby right, according to the ways of the masters,
0:11.7	there's a pretty good chance that you're going to have to bend the law to get the materials that you need.
0:16.6	If not, break it.
0:17.5	Yeah.
0:18.2	To break international laws.
0:20.8	Your life stories, really good ones,
0:23.0	This American Life. This is Fresh Air. I'm David B. and Cooley. One of this year's Kennedy
0:27.9	Center honorees is singer and songwriter Bonnie Raid. She's a 10-time Grammy Award winner,
0:33.7	best known for her soulful voice and her hit singles from the late 1980s, something to talk about,
0:39.2	and I Can't Make You Love Me. She's also known for her depth of knowledge of classic blues.
0:45.0	We're going to listen to Terry's 1996 interview with Rate. At the time, she had released a live
0:50.9	double CD called Road Tested. That collection featured duets with some of the
0:56.0	singer-songwriters and rhythm and blues performers who had shaped her musical style. Raid was a 20-year-old
1:02.5	college student when she got to know and learn from them. Terry invited Bonnie Raid to bring
1:07.6	and play some of the blues recordings that most influenced her. Before we hear
1:12.5	them, let's listen to a song from her first album, which was released in 1971. This is the Robert
1:19.1	Johnson's song, Walking Blues.
1:25.7	Walk out this morning I feel around to my shoes
1:29.6	You know by that I must have them were walking blues
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