Bonnie Raitt's new single "Used to Rule the World" is already a smash, tearing up radio nationwide. The "witty, funky" (USA Today) song is the second hit single from 'Slipstream' (Redwing Records), Raitt's best-selling, highest-debuting album in nearly two decades, totaling six-figure sales numbers only a month after its #6 Billboard 200 entry.
Listen to "Used the Rule the World" -- what NPR Music's Ann Powers calls "a sidelong glance at the American Dream" -- now:http://soundcloud.com/bonnie-raitt/used-to-rule-the-world-radio
Hear Raitt discuss how "that James Brown funk" drew her to record the song: http://soundcloud.com/bonnie-raitt/bonnie-raitt-audio-on
Watch her "hard-hitting" performance of "Used to Rule the World" at Jazz Fest: http://youtu.be/9fhwvVXO1_E
Buy Slipstream:
http://www.amazon.com/Slipstream-Bonnie-Raitt/dp/B006R1T40I
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/slipstream/id500303128
Bonnie Raitt on the Web:
http://www.bonnieraitt.com/
http://shorefire.com/clients/braitt/
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