Bonnie Raitt & Richard Thompson - Dimming of the Day

[@patriciahanberry5252]

I used this song for my husband's ring tone. He died a few months ago. And now it makes me cry, in the best way. I miss him so much.😢

[@gilbertdeliso6340]

It is barely possible to put into words what a performance like this can bring to the listener. Only the highest form of musical artistry can make one feel joy in the beauty of a song and shed tears of empathy at the same time. Masterful writing and masterful performance from these two.

[@brianpeters5717]

Uninterruptedly beautiful and apt is this comment ,perfectly described ❤

[@millieconcepcion451]

Truest words spoken

[@jamestierney2531]

What a moment. The incomparable Bonnie Raitt performing this heart-piercing song with the man who wrote it. Wow.

[@MarcMcClure]

I hate crying in front of my computer. I feel such a fool! This is a beautious performance.

[@misspeabody7097]

Oh yes! She always makes you feel what she feels. Beauteous, for certain.

[@estellebevan3387]

So so beautiful 😍

[@gouldbj]

One of the most beautiful songs ever written. It will be like Greensleeves 500 years from now when nobody knows where it came from.

[@nofascistsonmywatch]

IF our species, or any life on this globe is still around to hear it then. ;) :( :(

[@philipkthompson8266]

This is Richard Thompsons best song. Bonnie nailed it.

[@mrsfiddlegirl]

Oh Bonnie and Richard....could this favorite possibly ever be more touching than in this performance? Thanks for posting this.

[@greenlightwilly]

Every time I hear this it takes about 3 bars in and I can literally feel the tumblers to my heart spin and click. Then I’m there - right there in the groove with them - tears streaming down my face. And that happened when I first heard it off Pour Down Like Silver and just now - 43 years later. Now THAT is a piece of art.

[@nofascistsonmywatch]

^^^EXACTLY!!! :)

[@CCRider-if7mw]

I love that : ' ...the tumblers to my heart spin and click...'

[@marniepattersonleonard9103]

Great response....it IS a INDEED a piece of art....

[@charlenewilliams2783]

What an incredibly beautiful response. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

[@grouchomarxist666]

Well said.

[@tomryan4360]

this is good.very good.very good good indeed maybe so good there will never be anything as good again maybe not but it will be close.

[@irocket2it]

Loved her from the 1st time I heard her. Her soul reaches out in her music.

[@madeleinehague648]

'Been a fan of these two for decades. Whenever Richard is in town, we go see him. He's much better known in the UK than in North America. So many people you talk to have never heard of him (she said, scratching her head...)

[@squeezeflo]

For those who complain or say one version is better than another. It's called taste and knowledge.

[@cindyj5522]

Bonnie Raitt has been with me for all of my adult life. When I was 18 I found her music. And here she is, The Angel from Montgomery with the King of the Dreaming Isles. Beyond words.

[@henrywoolley4934]

Richard just stands back and gives Bonnie the reins , she is amazing, he is probably the most gracious of all artists

[@pwwatson8888]

His ex wife might have a different opinion. He left her and their three Children for a younger woman.

[@MaileyMcAslan]

I met him and shook his very talented hand. He is most kind and gracious.I was so nervous I couldn’t say a word. He was so nice.

[@worksbydandeprez]

The first time I saw him Shawn Colvin was the opening act. He had her come out and sing on several songs (but then again, with Shawn Colvin who wouldn't?).

[@swesttttt]

@@pwwatson8888 Considering that he’s contributed to her later albums, they’ve managed to be adults and kind to each other. Distance helps some relationships and certainly no one is perfect in one.

[@kenster865]

@@pwwatson8888 Well, that wouldn't be the first time that's been done. Still, it doesn't make it right. People are... imperfect...

[@patclouatre7946]

By far the most beautiful of lyrics,and voices. I love this and have for years. He and Linda were a beautiful couple,he and Bonnie are a beautiful couple of singer, songwriters who sings this beautifully.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

Who said we only hear bad news all the time and the world is got to pot, I bring you good news, take a few minutes to sit down and listen to this song, listen to the words of the master songwriter, player/singer Mr Richard Thompson, listen to the killer singing and playing of blessed sister Bonnie Raitt. Now you will know fo great this world is when we have got 2 championing people like those two Queen Bonnie & King Richard

[@batphink2655]

I first hear David Gilmour do this and yes tears it is one of the most honest and beautiful songs you can ever wish to hear and this is an exquisite version.

[@bernicewalsh3432]

The first time I heard this song was on a Mary Black DVD. I formed and shed the thickest tears ever. I cried for 5 days!! Single and bashed and bruised. It reminded me of when my 8 year boyfriend married someone else. I waited and they divorced but but but can’t go back to him older. Shame. For years I thought I needed him.

[@pattidale7968]

How absolutely beautiful and true. Something all of us have known but lack ability to express

[@g.stephens263]

I lost the love of my life ten years ago that shared her favorite time nearly every evening..."the dimming of the day". Love her, and the two talents in this video!

[@johnmcmahon5670]

Very sorry to hear of your loss. I hope this music brings joy as well as sadness.

[@123ubuntu666]

Bonnie Raitt is a fucking queen (excuse my language). She is also in my top 20 guitarists. No shit. What a lady.

[@carlwoodard7276]

A few newbies come along now and then , but no female singer comes even close in this style. Those are some serious lungs.

[@rodsreel]

This is beyond performance this is straight from the heart and enhanced by the prescence of Richard T.

[@wayneprince243]

Very good, This was the song that turned my on to Mary Black , who did a great version.

[@wornpick1]

Wow two best favorites together in an impeccibly touching performance? Unbelievable, and one of my favorite songs from Richard. Love it!!!

[@mjatl3391]

I cry every time I hear this version of this song.

[@Alamillar1]

A great version of a true classic song, the depths of the true meaning of these lyrics are the reason Good Music becomes GREAT Music What days have come to keep us far apart?A broken promise or a broken heartNow all the bonnie birds have wheeled awayI need you at the dimming of the dayI Love this version

[@PolarbearKA]

I could listen to this all day....

[@williamknell864]

Bonnie Raitt- a great song's best friend.

[@stevegrooms1142]

Many years ago I heard NPR's Scott Simon interview Bonnie. She had released a new album and was on the road pushing it. The interview was remarkably sensitive and moving, and when it ended I was in tears. Bonnie said there were a number of slower pieces she performs with each concert, songs like this one. What surprised me was her saying that she has to give so much to sing songs like this that she is limp and hollow afterward. She said she could never sing a song like this one and then go on to "I Can't Make You Love Me" or "Angel from Montgomery" right afterward. Instead she has to do a few fast, bluesy numbers while she regains the emotional strength to do the next heartbreak song. What an amazing woman. What an amazing performer.

[@nofascistsonmywatch]

"I Can't Make You Love Me" HAS TO BE the ultimate, most direct, song of resigned, unrequited love ever recorded, and Bonnie brings so much heart-rending soul to it!!

[@BGK2223]

Thanks for sharing!

[@manfredschlager5502]

what a voice - what a song

[@phonicwheel933]

Excellent!

[@mbwalsh2106]

The most beautiful folk song. I must record this soon for the younger generation to hear it. Such an amazing song, lyrically and musically. I cried for 5 days the first time I heard this song. It certainly moved my stuck sad emotions to the forefront. Good grief.

[@lucettabutt0926]

Thank you soooo much Richard and Bonnie for this!!! One of my Favorite songs!!! Thank you Bonnie for including Richard in this for he has written this beautiful song!!! Most song writers don't get recognized for the work they had done!!! Beautiful song Richard.... And very well done singing this and being so gracious to Richard for who had wrote this!!! You guys ROCK!!!!!!!

[@motorcyclemadness6006]

beautiful

[@philipgrier9376]

Just brilliant

[@angelamoran1479]

Extraordinary!

[@theronster3533]

Magic sometimes happens, here it is

[@sandstoney]

What a brilliant song,and Bonnie is the best . Richard has a beautiful harmony.just superb

[@arthurpewtey]

A lot of music brings me out in goose bumps. Not much gives me goose bumps over my entire body. That's an awesome performance of a fine song.

[@dopeydawg8954]

Stunning...simple as that.

[@angelamoran1479]

The most beautiful sad love song.

[@JeromyBranch]

This song has the mark of greatness- Everyone loves most the version they heard first. For me it's Mary Black. Still, Bonnie is so amazing. She really belts this one!

[@johndevenny3454]

It doesn't get much better than that, beautiful

[@marcellodigiulio2104]

I found it odd that so many people left after Bonnie, i remember she did Browne's "Under the falling sky" , i stayed, Jackson and David Lindley were a real treat!

[@lisakatz9437]

I've been a BR fan since I was in my early 20's. She never fails to gives me goosebumps. Such an amazing musician. Along with Richard Thompson who wrote this beautiful masterpiece

[@steveharris5008]

that sound you hear, is my heart breaking...

[@missinglowell]

OMG! If there is a heaven, when I get to the pearly gates I want St. Peter to say, come on in, RIchard and Bonnie are over there, just warmin' up ....

[@brianmullins5824]

You never know you may be there before them.

[@jeanpettit8346]

God, I can see Seneca Falls,, NY so clearly like it was yesterday.

[@lsearchingforEmmy]

I just listened to 5 different musicians versions. It's such a beautiful song. Bonnie makes you feel the pain

[@jenniferjenkins6595]

Pain and solace. Her voice makes you feel both.

[@misspeabody7097]

She always does.

[@misspeabody7097]

She always does.

[@mairead4321]

Love you to listen to Jerry Lynch version. Very Beautiful too

[@richardmooney7375]

Bonnie + Richard = Beauty

[@mickymcl8359]

Just magical, their voices blend like the river and sea.

[@stanleybelk8795]

You are beautiful lady and you sing like an angel thank you for the tears in my eyes such feeling

[@tunefultony]

It doesn't come much better than this. Such a heartfelt performance & Richard's astounding harmonies, during the middle sections, were sheer bliss.

[@desireecoad7557]

Calming, lovely and I am all in. 😎

[@tcanfield]

It’ no surprise when the daughter of a Broadway leading man can belt it out at times during this wonderful song. Bonnie’s voice was purer in the 70s , but she only diminished slighty at this stage, and combined it with maturity of heart.

[@nofascistsonmywatch]

Yup, ol' Johnny must have surely been quite PROUD of her when he was still of this world!

[@hollycromwell]

gives me chills

[@AnthonyWhite-z5w]

Simply stunning, thanks to Richard for creating this and to Bonnie for her incredible performance. So nice to see such a mature performance by two greats of the music industry representing both sides of the pond. Thank you both

[@colerainfan1143]

Two extraordinary talents here.

[@dopeydawg8954]

Bonnie Raitt could sing the alphabet, and I'd listen to it. She has a voice that could melt stone. Not seen her live, it's the last thing on my bucket list. Amazing!!

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

Bonnie is always unbelievable. So fortunate to have seen her twice in concert

[@sandstoney]

Bonnie is brilliant, she does a lot for Richards great song

[@coolohiobreeze2037]

Ohhhhh........I so love this song. So love to listen to Bonnie Raitt sing just about anything! I have been her biggest fan since I first heard her singing in 1971. Channeling my husband tonight, as I listen to this wonderful song

[@MaggieGraceWebb]

I found a cassette tape of my Dad singing this for my Mom back in 1999... I'll always hear his voice when I listen to it

[@annemorrissey7372]

What a legacy of love, my friend.

[@MaggieGraceWebb]

@@annemorrissey7372 Indeed. They may be divorced now, but their love flourished for years and they raised lots of loving kids together.

[@anniemz4211]

Very lucky🙏

[@mickthebandit]

Just perfection xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[@moonbeamchaos]

OMG....not, in my opinion, as lovely as Richard with Linda, but unmistakably superb. Richard Thompson is God. That's all there is to it!

[@donniemaxwell1929]

Voices are spun with gold and our ears are rich with this heavenly assault of bliss

[@ivyedan7183]

Donnie Maxwell yes I often image the symphony of angels that will some day becon me to heaven

[@timothylocklear9885]

@@ivyedan7183 it's "beckon" :)

[@neilpiper9889]

Well said Donnie

[@seanpenfold4374]

Great! She's flawless.

[@LeeWatkinsJr]

My god this is beautiful. Wish they had done this song in Baltimore a couple months ago.

[@IlGattonero13]

Raitt honors (and doubles down on) the heartbreak in the original and makes the song her own. Linda Thompson's version expresses her sorrow with exquisite restraint, while Bonnie lets the raw emotion carry her. A cover version should bring something new to the song, and Bonnie and Richard do that beautifully while preserving its elegiac tone. It brings tears to my eyes every time.

[@elainejlawrence7931]

Totally agree! :)

[@davidkinley3161]

Don’t agree. Her voice is too strident for the lyrics and emotion underpinning the song. Another interpretation, obviously, but doesn’t compare, in my opinion, with the original by Linda.

[@pattidale7968]

We can agree to disagree and love what we love tho' it may be different and still love each other

[@richardbunting1031]

@@davidkinley3161 I agree! This is not a song to be hollered like that.

[@pattidale7968]

I doubt many would agree that Bonnie "hollered" in this version. She poured out from the bottom of her heart.

[@richardmcdonald7565]

I didn't realize Richard wrote this song. Amazing.. !

[@isoceles1]

Great duo! Great song! Thanks so much for posting... G

[@hanvroman]

Muchos muchos gracias....

[@shyldaalvarez-odell7143]

Once again, just thank you.

[@davidparnell1893]

This is the most soulful performance of such a poetic song...ever! Bonnie Raitt can capture the human heart's expression of blues surmounted by none...a beautiful performer...heart and soul in this song.

[@suehamlin51]

this is the best I've ever heard her, and of course it's a perfect song to begin with.

[@tdavey59]

love this

[@harmoniabalanza]

Here's a case in point when life experience just speaks in the art. There is almost a fatigue in her voice that makes this all the more poignant. FLAWLESS.

[@micksoiseth2652]

+harmoniabalanza A good point that I hear now that you mention it. What a beautiful, touching song. A true gem.

[@philliphoffmann9697]

Exactly right. Her interpretation captures the essence of the song with her world-weary vocal.

[@writer4peace]

Utter heaven. Wow.

[@SheilaIngramblues]

Such a beautiful song.

[@chrisirving8390]

Incredible 😳🌤❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@thomastommy1192]

I first heard Bonnie when I was a young teen. Back in the 70's. I feel in love with her and her voice. There no other like her. Bonnie thank you for many hours of listening pleasure. You always had that different but great style of music. I will love you and your music for as long as I live, Thank you.

[@jfhsailor1269]

beautiful

[@moonlightlady9703]

I can't sto p playing this song. I've applied for guitar picking lessons as a result of listening to Bonnie covering Dimming of the Day.

[@homolgus1]

it is a beautiful version of this song

[@softailspringer9915]

Perfection, sheer perfection

[@drambuietime]

Saw Richard & Linda sing this live in 1979 in Glasgow. This version is excellent, but you'd have to be there all those years ago to appreciate the original. And Gerry Rafferty was on the same concert.

[@glynnarogers2634]

You were so lucky to be there! Richard is a GENIUS. Bonnie's raspy voice is perfect with his for heartbreaking music that reaches the soul. Listened to this repeatedly for years. A masterpiece. 💖💖💖💖 I always loved Gerry Rafferty, too.💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@fabrikk60]

In Richard's new book, he reveals something a bit startling about Rafferty.

[@jimlowell5251]

Another outstanding version of this incredibly beautiful song is the one by Danko, Fjeld & Andersen..(That's Rick Danko, Eric Andersen, and Jonas Fjeld) ..from their album RIDIN' ON THE BLINDS. Their version is also on KZbin.

[@leslymoore1962]

Thanks for that, Jim. I loved Rick Danko. Watched the Band just last night. Such talent there.

[@RaksSharki007]

Love this? Listen to Bonnie do this on an album called "Beat the Retreat" a tribute by various artists to Richard Thompson's genius. She does it with the Five Blind Boys of Alabama and they tear it up! She also does Thompson's "When the Spell is Broken" with them on the same album...all I can say is: O-DAMN-M-G, it's a-mazin'! I've loved that woman since the late 70's...

[@margaretwalsh852]

Bonnie is the very best

[@markrigsby2107]

True Greatness!

[@aliceross7282]

Genius x two... Makes me cry everytime I hear this. Bonnie Raitt is spectacular and Richard Thompson is a poet! XXX

[@Carla-sz5xz]

My favorite .. of all time..

[@andywolf5871]

Both of them are survivors. Bonnie has played with everyone and she is great at finding the heart of a song. Richard Thompson is simply magical.

[@JM-hx9bm]

When my Dad passed, I posted this song to my FB and my Mom heard it and it took her to that place with him. 14 months later, she passed and I played it for her on my FB. I can't hear it today without thinking of them both...

[@GaneshNorway]

What a song! Good enough version too.

[@starbird1111]

Fills the heart with hope, and despair. I color that beautiful

[@everwood67]

Sooooooperb 🎼🎼🎼

[@MrDerek2404]

Breaks my heart wide open when I hear it .The passion ; the harmonies .I have to remind myself to breathe .

[@masonirwin6093]

I can't even understand how it soars .....take me

[@ozbluesman]

How can anyone have a dry eye when watching this ? I can't . A beautiful song sung with such emotion. A stunning voice with one of my favourite musicians of all time . Thanks Bonnie, thank you Richard.