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DON’T YOU REMEMBER YOU TOLD ME YOU LOVED MY BABY THE BONNIE BRAMLETT INNERVIEW
by Michael Buffalo Smith
Clapton, Joe Cocker - and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. She has recorded a stack of truly great albums with Delaney as well as solo, and has lent her voice to hundreds of albums, including one by your’s truly. We caught up with Bonnie to talk about
her new album, working with Johnny Sandlin again and acting with Kevin Costner.
This issue we travel back twelve years
to 2008 n and my third interview with the great Bonnie Bramlett. At the time, Bonnie had just released a great new album called Beautiful and had just starred alongside Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher in The Guardian. Bramlett is the true Queen of Southern
Rock. A true soul singer if ever there was one, Bonnie has performed and recorded with the best of the best, not the least of which was her former husband and singing partner Delaney Bramlett . Along with Duane Allman, Gram Parsons, George Harrison, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Little Feat, The Allman Brothers Band , Dave Mason, Charlie Daniels, Eric
You guys couldn’t have picked a better title for your new album than Beauti- ful. I mean, it is just that and you are too. Oh, thank you honey. That means so much to me. I really got to embrace the songwriters on this one, Buff. There are none of my songs on there. They are all just incredible songwriters. How was it working with Johnny San- dlin again? Well, I worked with him through the years on other people’s stuff, like Walter, Jr. and stuff. Of course we were wanting to do a project, but it just didn’t come up. Then it came into the universe, and it all just fell together. And Johnny and I work absolutely great together. I mean, I believe in him as a producer like I believe in God. He can do anything. (Laughs) I mean, those horn lines prove it don’t they?
Who picked the musicians that played on the record? Well, Johnny did. We got together and he said, wouldn’t it be good if we could get David Hood and Spooner Oldham and all those, and I said “Yeah, get all the boys!” And they all just flocked it. I mean they came a runnin’
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