Bonnie Raitt’s distinguished profession has by no means been about singles success, however on December 14, 1991 she lastly did one thing she’d by no means managed in a 20-year recording 12 months to that time. As her eleventh studio album Luck Of The Draw continued its multi-platinum success in America, she made the UK singles chart for the primary time with its stunning ballad “I Can’t Make You Love Me.”
Just a few months earlier, the singer-songwriter-guitarist from Burbank, California had scored her first-ever main US hit with the album’s rocky “Something To Talk About,” written by Canadian Shirley Eikhard. Raitt’s 1989 career-reviving Nick Of Time had given her a first-ever exhibiting on the UK album countdown in 1990, though its five-week run was not a patch on the file’s unbelievable chart-topping, triple Grammy-winning acclaim in her residence nation.
Two singles from that set, the title observe and “Thing Called Love,” had charted under the revealed High 75 of the UK listings. However then got here “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” a ballad of uncommon delicacy written by nation composers Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin, co-produced by Bonnie with Don Was and that includes piano by Bruce Hornsby. It grew to become a US chart entry in November and climbed to No.18 in early 1992.
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Within the UK, the track peaked at its No.50 entry place, and Raitt has solely as soon as made the High 40 there, with 1994’s “You.” However “I Can’t Make You Love Me” has gone on to grow to be a staple of her repertoire, inspiring numerous covers by the likes of George Michael, Prince, and Boyz II Males. Bonnie’s tender efficiency of it was a spotlight of her widely-acclaimed 2016-17 Dig In Deep tour, described by the Sydney Morning Herald as “electric, exciting and very satisfying.” The track shimmered once more as a jewel in her Simply Like That… tour setlist of 2022.
Purchase or stream “I Can’t Make You Love Me” on the Nick Of Time album.
