Bonnie Raitt - BBC Concert: Old Grey Whistle Test, Shepherd's Bush Studios, London, Britain, 3-23-1976

In the 1970s, "The Old Grey Whistle Test" was a popular BBC TV show. Typically, it would have a variety of different performers for each show, but occasionally it would devote an entire show to just one artist. One such occasion was when the American singer Bonnie Raitt played a short concert for the show in London in 1976.

I've posted some of Raitt's acoustic concerts from the early 1970s. But by 1976, she was playing with a full band, so this is a different kind of concert from her. Most of the songs are from her early 1970s albums, but she also does a couple from her latest at the time, "Home Plate," released in 1975. 

This concert is rather short, at only 39 minutes. But I came across another live TV appearance she did one year later for the US TV show "The Midnight Special" where she did her 1977 hit "Runaway" plus another song from her 1977 album "Sweet Forgiveness." So I added those two at the end. That makes the whole album 47 minutes long.

01 Love Me like a Man (Bonnie Raitt)
02 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
03 Too Long at the Fair (Bonnie Raitt)
04 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
05 I'm Blowin' Away (Bonnie Raitt)
06 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
07 You've Got to Know How (Bonnie Raitt)
08 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
09 Write Me a Few of Your Lines - Kokomo Blues (Bonnie Raitt)
10 Sugar Mama (Bonnie Raitt)
11 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
12 What Do You Want the Boy to Do (Bonnie Raitt)
13 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
14 Under the Falling Sky (Bonnie Raitt)
15 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
16 Angel from Montgomery (Bonnie Raitt)
17 Home (Bonnie Raitt)
18 Runaway (Bonnie Raitt)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15165254/BonniR_1976_BBSessionsVolume1OldGryWhstleTest__3-23-1976_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from a 1976 concert, but I don't know which one exactly. I could have used a screenshot from the TV show, which is on YouTube, but the quality of this picture is significantly better.