I was grateful that I didn't have to be worried about that. The older they got, the more treasured that they were. King or Charles and Ruth Brown- all of the people that I was so lucky enough to be touring with and look up to as my mentors, they seem to embrace being older and their position of emeritus, you know, being honored. Those that continued to stretch and try new things have always been an inspiration, whether it's Mick and Keith or Tony Bennett or my dad or B.B. What difference do you think that that has made to how you look at things and how you're operating now?Д«onnie Raitt: My role models were people that were aging, just getting more experienced and richer in their tones and in their musical abilities. Jewly Hight, NPR Music: You have been looking to models of longevity all along, from blues pioneers to your Broadway star father and others. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. She convened the players near her northern California home, in comfortable command of her abilities and open as ever to refining feel. The proceedings were solely in her hands this time. Raitt is a model of continuity she's been leading the same core band for decades -particularly the rhythm section of drummer Ricky Fataar and bassist James 'Hutch' Hutchinson - and presiding over her recording sessions alongside established co-producers. There's no surrendering to nostalgia here - only bracing emotional clarity. Her voice flares as she tightens her grip around the most powerless line: 'Poured like sand through your hands and mine / Blame it on time.' Then she shifts her vocalizing to slide guitar, swelling into a melancholy note and mounting an unexpected upward climb.

'Blame it on time, the fugitive, the vagabond / It's the perfect crime,' she challenges a drifting lover, her phrasing both elegantly anguished and knowing. Raitt's latest release, out today, and the first album of her 70s - when she makes subtle and supple art of acknowledging the passage of years. There's a moment midway through 'Blame It On Me,' a slow-burning blues number on Just Like That. At the dawn of the '90s, she eased through a much brighter pop spotlight with equanimity, never making us privy to her private turmoils, but prioritizing honesty about where she was in life - a woman of advancing age transcendent in an industry where that fact is often presumed to diminish a performer's value and appeal.Д®ver since, she's carried on in the groove that she established - cultivating heat through a deep understanding of mutuality, and its absence, with roadhouse rockers, pop ballads, funky sophistication and plenty else - for an audience that's found it rewarding to keep right on listening. Patient and persistent, her prime focus was being fully in her element on stage. What career artist is shrewder than Bonnie Raitt? She started off the 1970s working in a folk-inflected blues style that had the heft of lineage and contemporary popularity, selecting songs that would hold up well.

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