Bonnie Bramlett

Bonnie Bramlett (born Bonnie Lynn O'Farrell; November 8, 1944) is an American singer and sometime actress known for her distinctive vocals in rock and pop music. This began in the mid 1960s as a backing singer, forming the husband-and-wife team of Delaney & Bonnie, and continuing to the present day as a solo artist.

Bramlett was born in Alton, Illinois. She started her musical career at the age of thirteen as a backup singer for blues acts such as Fontella Bass, Albert King, and Little Milton.

She made history as the first Caucasian female to sing with Ike and Tina Turner as one of the "Ikettes". She eventually moved to Los Angeles, where she met fellow singer Delaney Bramlett in 1967 at a bowling alley gig for his band, The Shindogs. They were married within the week and are the parents of singer Bekka Bramlett, who was briefly a member of Fleetwood Mac in the 1990s.

The duo signed with Stax Records and became known as Delaney & Bonnie, becoming the first white artists among R&B artists such as Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Sam & Dave, John Lee Hooker, and Booker T. and the MGs. They soon toured Europe with British rock legend Eric Clapton. With frequent drop-in performances by other noted musicians like Duane Allman, George Harrison, and Dave Mason, the group became known as Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. Despite this all-star assistance, the duo only managed to chart two songs, their best-known "Never-Ending Song of Love" and a cover of Mason's "Only You Know and I Know". During the course of their relationship with Eric Clapton, Bonnie Bramlett co-wrote "Superstar" with Leon Russell and the classic "Let It Rain" on Clapton's eponymous first album.

World heading for catastrophe over natural disasters, risk expert warns

Edit The Guardian 24 Apr 2016

With cascading crises – where one event triggers another – set to rise, international disaster risk reduction efforts are woefully underfunded. Global development is supported by. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. @swajones ... Last year, earthquakes, floods, heatwaves and landslides left (pdf). Yet the international community spends less than half of one per cent of the global aid budget on mitigating the risks posed by such hazards ... ....

photo: AP / Evan Agostini

FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2012 file photo, singer Kanye West and girlfriend Kim Kardashian attend a benefit in New York. Reports attributed to anonymous sources broke over the weekend that Kardashian has given birth to her baby with West.

Kim Kardashian posts steamy NSFW photos from friend’s wedding

Edit Celebrity Café 24 Apr 2016

Kim Kardashian attended a friend’s wedding this past weekend and she captured the night’s events with some racy images that are definitely NSFW ... 001. A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Apr 23, 2016 at 6.05pm PDT. 014 ... 006 ... He married model Isabela Rangel ... ....

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Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba, commonly know as Papa Wemba

World music star Papa Wemba dies after collapsing on stage

Edit The Hindu 24 Apr 2016

Papa Wemba, a musician known around the world as the king of Congolese rumba, has died following a collapse on stage during a concert, officials said. He was 66. Culture Minister Baudouin Banza Mukalay confirmed the musician’s death on Sunday, calling it a “great loss for the country and all of Africa.” ... He was taken to a nearby clinic, but couldn’t be resuscitated ... Keywords....

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Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo arrives for the inauguration of the new Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja , Nigeria, Friday, May 29, 2015.

Africa's longest serving leader seeks new 7-year term

Edit Graphic 24 Apr 2016

The country's opposition leaders and international civil society groups have already dismissed Sunday's vote as "not credible". President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo faces six mostly unknown opponents, with most of the opposition boycotting the poll ... Critics accuse the 73-year-old of failing to distribute the country's oil wealth to the population of about 700,000 ... In the last election in 2009, Obiang won 97 percent of the vote....

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US President Barack Obama and Prince William while Catherine Duchess of Cambridge plays with Prince George at Kensington Palace during visit to Britain.

'Adorable' Prince George wows Obama in pyjamas

Edit Deccan Herald 23 Apr 2016

Barack Obama has described Prince George as "adorable" after the 2-year-old son of Prince William and Kate Middleton was allowed to stay up past his bed-time to meet the US President. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge hosted Obama and wife Michelle for an informal dinner at Kensington Palace in London last night, after which photographs were released of the guests kneeling down to shake hands with the young prince in his pyjamas ... ....

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Rita Coolidge was muse to rock icons — and this is how they treated her

Edit New York Post 03 Apr 2016

Coolidge met Jim Gordon shortly after moving to Memphis in 1967—the two began touring with Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, which Eric Clapton would soon make his backing band.Photo ... It was in Memphis that she met singers Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, and musician Leon Russell ... The two began dating and toured with the group Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, which had what Coolidge considered a dream team of musicians....

Saturday Night Live's, Christine Ohlman, at Amazing Things Art Center

Edit The Examiner 21 Mar 2016

Christine Ohlman, also known as "The Beehive Queen", will be returning to Boston on Saturday, March 26, to perform at the Amazing Things Art Center in Framingham ... It's where she'll be till the season ends in late May ... Bandmates are well known Worcester guitar king, Cliff Goodwin; Michael Colbath on bass; and Larry Donahue on drums ... It continues with my headlining, "Music City Roots" on PBS, with Bonnie Bramlett and the McCrary Sisters....

'Superstar'

Edit The Atlantic 17 Feb 2016

A reader writes.. I love all kinds of music, but I particularly love covers ... The Songs of Leonard Cohen”) ... But my favorite example of a song being reinterpreted is “Superstar.” The song was written by Bonnie Bramlett (of Delaney & Bonnie fame) and Leon Russel and was initially done by Rita Coolidge way back in 1970 ... Embedded above ... ....

Elvis Costello: 10 of the best

Edit The Guardian 27 Jan 2016

The line “one more widow, one less white nigger” caused little controversy at the time, though when Costello dropped the N-bomb into an argument with Stephen Stills and Bonnie Bramlett at a Holiday Inn in Ohio in March 1979 – he provoked the row, and described Ray Charles as “a blind, ignorant nigger” – it had a disastrous effect on his US popularity....

10 Things We Learned From Carly Simon's Revealing New Memoir

Edit Rollingstone 24 Nov 2015

Carly Simon could have gotten away with just the name-dropping ... Simon's lyrical gifts are also featured on the book's companion album — the career-spanning compilation Songs From the Trees ... Sidebar ... Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, George Martin, Bonnie Bramlett and Harry Nilsson. (The McCartneys were working at the same London studio; Bramlett and Nilsson had just dropped in.) Then Mick Jagger called up the studio phone....

George Harrison's 'All Things Must Pass' still inspires 45 years later

Edit The Los Angeles Times 24 Nov 2015

“We got something like 14 Beatles records that year ... SHERMAN OAKS, CALIF ... 21, 2015 ... 27, 1970 ... “I even like the ‘Apple Jam’ disc,” referring to the third part of the three-LP album containing largely instrumental jams among Harrison and his superstar pals including Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, Billy Preston, Dave Mason, Gary Wright, Klaus Voorman and numerous others ... ....

Review: Elvis Costello memoir is a deep dark truthful mirror

Edit Canberra Times 10 Nov 2015

UNFAITHFUL MUSIC & DISAPPEARING INK. Elvis Costello. Penguin $34.99. They called him Elvis, but he looked like Declan. a weedy four-eye, intensely vital behind his electric guitar. The talent was clear from the first fiery singles, but longevity less guaranteed ... It meant itchy feet and infidelity ...   . It took a woman to bring me down, he writes, a line made for country music, but referring to Bonnie Bramlett's punch ... ....

No album title but it still sales over 37 million copies worlwide

Edit The Examiner 08 Nov 2015

Bonnie Bramlett – born in 1944, Bonnie became part of Delaney and Bonnie ... Bonnie also worked with Eric Clapton during the early 1970s, had acting roles in the movie “Fame”, “Roseanne” and “The Doors” ... Bonnie Raitt – born in 1949, Bonnie Raitt is an American blues singer, songwriter and slide guitarist. During the 1970s, Bonnie Raitt released a series ......

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 8-14

Edit The Washington Times 03 Nov 2015

Nov. 8. Singer Bonnie Bramlett is 71. Singer Bonnie Raitt is 66. "Entertainment Tonight" host Mary Hart is 65. Actress Alfre Woodard is 63. Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones is 61. Singer-actor Leif Garrett is 54. TV chef Gordon Ramsay is 49. Actress Courtney Thorne-Smith ("According to Jim," ''Ally McBeal") is ... ....

Hear a 1976 Live Version of Marshall Tucker Band's 'Take the Highway'

Edit Rollingstone 30 Oct 2015

Doug Gray remembers well the members of the Marshall Tucker Band posing for a snapshot near the Eiffel Tower in 1976. Sidebar. Readers' Poll. The 10 Best Live Albums of the 1970s » ... The album also includes other familiar MTB tracks like "Searchin' for a Rainbow," "Fire on the Mountain," and a version of the country classic "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" with guest Bonnie Bramlett of Delaney and Bonnie fame ... ....

Book review: Elvis Costello turns his plentiful talents to autobiography

Edit South China Morning Post 28 Oct 2015

Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello (Blue Rider Press). Full disclosure. I love Elvis Costello ... His autobiography Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink only fuels the fire ... Elvis makes the same mistake ... He tripped at every step, including the well-documented incident in which he used an unforgivably racist word about Ray Charles and James Brown during an argument with Bonnie Bramlett (although he doesn’t name her)....

Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink review – Elvis Costello’s idiosyncratic memoir

Edit The Guardian 19 Oct 2015

It jumps around and spends pages discussing bass players, but Costello’s account of his long career is as beautifully written as it is infuriating. @kittyempire666. You learn to dread the autobiographies of our most literate pop stars; to read them tensed for the letdown ... Related ... He’s particularly good on the irony of being punched that night by a woman singer – Bonnie Bramlett – given the gendered bitterness of his own songwriting ... ....

Elvis Costello's 'Unfaithful Music': Everyday he wrote the book

Edit Lexington Herald-Leader 14 Oct 2015

"Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink" by Elvis Costello; Blue Rider Press (688 pages, $30). --- ... He tripped at every step, including the well-documented incident in which he used an unforgivably racist word about Ray Charles and James Brown during an argument with Bonnie Bramlett (although he doesn't name her) ... Oh, Elvis ... He confesses that Bonnie Raitt once tried to get him to do "the bump" with her at a party, but he was too shy ... ....

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