Tag: Bonnie Raitt

Suggested Listening & Viewing: January 30, 2026

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring ten songs and two streaming video recommendations, one from a mainstream service and the other from Kanopy, the library’s free to access streaming service (all you need is a library card!).

First the songs: 

This week we’re turning our listening spotlight on female guitarists, with an emphasis on players who made their debut before 1970.

Can’t Find My Way Home by Ellen McIlwaine 

 

Found on the Album: Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years (1998) 

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Hard Headed Woman by Wanda Jackson 

 

Found on the Album: There’s A Party Goin’ On (1961) 

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I Love Paris by Mary Osborne 

 

Found on the Album: A Girl And Her Guitar (1959/2006) 

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Joy ‘Round My Brain by Mimi & Richard Farina with Pete Seeger 

 

Found on the Album: Memories (1968) by Mimi & Richard Farina 

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Keep It To Yourself by Memphis Minnie 

 

Found on the Album: Rough Guide To Memphis Minnie – Queen of the Country Blues (2022) 

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Last Kind Words by Geeshie Wiley 

 

Found on the Album: Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas (2022) 

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Mercy by Lorrie Collins  

 

Found on the Album: N/A 

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One Dime Blues by Etta Baker 

 

Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians (1956/2016) by Various Artists 

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Walking Blues by Bonnie Raitt 

 

Found on the Album: Bonnie Raitt (1971) 

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Wildwood Flower by Maybelle Carter 

 

Found on the Album: Can The Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music’s First Family (2000) 

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You’ll Lose A Good Thing by Barbara Lynn 

 

Found on the Album: You’ll Lose A Good Thing (1963) 

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Second The videos: 

A new title available through one of the usual U.S. streaming services, followed by a Kanopy title that you can check out with your library card and stream on-demand.

Bridgerton, Season 4, Part 1 (2026) (Netflix) 

 

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Kanopy Streaming Pick of the Week (A title available to library card holders) 

Hannah Arendt Facing Tyranny (A PBS American Masters Documentary) (2025) 

 

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Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Information on the four library catalogs 

The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/ 

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go! 

All card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can check out items from the Digital Catalog. 

And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.  

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Hoopla Catalog: https://www.hoopladigital.com/ 

The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout limit is 10 items per month. 

Hoopla is a Southeast Steuben County Library service available to all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders. 

The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players. 

Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.  

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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en 

The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.  

The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders! 

You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV). 

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StarCat: The catalog of physical/traditional library materials: https://starcat.stls.org 

Card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can access StarCat to search for and request materials available at libraries through out the Southern Tier Library System. 

Suggested Listening: November 8, 2024

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, welcome to our Suggested Listening post for this week!

Suggested Listening postings are published on Fridays; and our next Suggested Listening posting will be out on Friday, November 15, 2024.

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In honor of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame performer Bonnie Raitt, who celebrates her 75th birthday today; here is a collection of terrific songs that span her recording career – enjoy!

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Bluebird  

From The Album: Bonnie Raitt (1971)

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Too Long At The Fair  

From The Album: Give It Up (1972)

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Wah She Go Do 

From The Album: Takin’ My Time (1973)

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What Is Success  

From The Album: Streetlights (1974)

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Can’t Get Enough 

From The Album:  Green Lights (1982)

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Real Man  

From The Album: Nick of Time (1989)

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Thing Called Love 

From The Album: Nick of Time (1989)

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Luck of the Draw  

From The Album: Luck of the Draw (1991)

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Something To Talk About  

From The Album: Luck of the Draw (1991)

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The Bed I Made 

From The Album: Souls Alike (2005)

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Just Like That  

From The Album: Just Like That (2022)

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Hoopla Album of the Week 

Dig In Deep (2016) by Bonnie Raitt

Dig In Deep

And from the album, the song:

Unintended Consequence of Love 

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Have a great weekend,

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Online Catalog Links:

StarCat

The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD, etc.

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The Digital Catalog, web version of Libby

The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.

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The Libby App

Libby

Libby is the companion app to the Digital Catalog and may be found in the Apple & Google app.

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Hoopla

A catalog of instant check out items, including eBooks, downloadable audiobooks, comic books, TV shows and movies for patrons of the Southeast Steuben County Library.

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Tech Talk is a Southeast Steuben County Library blog.

Suggested Listening April 27, 2018

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our five musical recommendations for the week; four streaming suggestions and one recommended album on CD.

(Click on the photo to stream or request the album you want to listen to!)

Freegal Streaming Suggestions*

Just Being Me (2018) by Nick Colionne (Genre: Jazz, Guitar, Vocal, Smooth Jazz):

Nick Colionne is an educator and musician who hails from Elgin, Illinois. Just Being Me is his brand new LP and it features the songs: Just Being Me, How Sweet It is (To Be Loved By You), Be Urself, Spend The Night, Still Connected and Go Nico Go.

Official Bootleg: Box Set Vol. 1 (Set issued in 2017/Tracks recorded in the 1970s) by Humble Pie (Genre: Rock, Classic Rock):

Humble Pie formed in 1969. The original line up of the band included former Small Faces singer-songwriter and guitarist Steve Marriott, former Herd singer-songwriter and guitarist Peter Frampton, bassist Greg Ridley and drummer Jerry Shirley.

Frampton left the group in 1972 and was replaced by Clem Clempson. And it is the Marriott, Ridley, Shirley Clempson line-up that is features in this official bootleg set.

The band was recorded live in concert at: The Arie Crown Theatre, Chicago on 22nd September 1972, the Shibuya Kokaido in Tokyo on 16th May 1973, the Charlton Athletic Football Ground on 18th May 1974 and at Rainbow Theatre in London on 6th June 1974.

Songs in the collection include: Watcha Gonna Do About It, Steve’s Little Jam, Up our Sleeve, Thunderbox, I Believe To My Soul, C’mon Everybody and many more.

Butterfly Ball & The Grasshopper’s Feast (1974) by Roger Glover (Genre: Rock, Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Children’s Music):

The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast was Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover’s first solo album. And ironically, the album was actually made for children! In 1973 Glover agreed to create a musical adaptation of the children’s book of the same name written by William Plomer and illustrated by Alan Aldridge and this LP is the fun result!

Songs on the LP include: Dawn, Get Ready, Saffron Dormouse and Lizzy Be, Old Blind Mole, Magician Moth, Behind The Smile and Watch Out for the Bat.

Hearts of Glass (2018) by Beth Nielsen Chapman (Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Country, Pop):

Singer-songwriter and Texas native Beth Nielson Chapman has been writing and recording great music since 1990.

Hearts of Glass is her brand new album. Songs on the LP include Come to Mine, Old Church Hymns & Nursery Rhymes, Enough for Me, You’re Still My Valentine, Life Holds On and Dancer to the drum.

CD Recommendation of the Week:

Both Sides Of The Sky by Jimi Hendrix:

Jimi Hendrix needs no introduction, at least not to those who have been fans or rock guitarists since the 1960s!

Both Side Of The Sky is an official Jimmy Hendrix estate release and features 13 studio recordings, including 10 songs never before released.

The recordings were made between 1968 and 1970. Songs on the LP include: Hear My Train a Comin’, $20 Fine, Power of Soul, Jungle, Things I Used to Do, Georgia Blues and Woodstock.

Videos of the Week:

Just Being Me by Nick Colionne

I Believe To My Soul by Humble Pie

Love Is All by Roger Glover

Come To Mine by Beth Nielsen Chapman

Do You Feel Like We Do by Peter Frampton

Runaway by Bonnie Raitt

Hotter Than That by Bria Skonberg

Have a great weekend!

Linda, SSCL

*A library card is required to use the Freegal Music Service. If you live in the service area of the Southern Tier Library System, which consists of the public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler and Alleghany counties in New York State, you can get a library card for free at your nearest public library – including our own Southeast Steuben County Library in Corning, New York. The Freegal Music Service is free for all Southern Tier Library System member libraries library card holders to access.

References:

Artist Biography & Discography Information:

http://www.allmusic.com/

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn (Billboard Books. New York. 2009.)

P.S. If you have any questions about how to download or stream free music through the Freegal Music service to a desktop or laptop computer or how to download and use the Freegal Music app let us know! Drop by the library or give us a call at: 607-936-3713

*You must have a library card at a Southern Tier Library System member library to enjoy the Freegal Music Service. Your card can be from any library in the system, and the system includes all public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler and Allegheny Counties and includes our own Southeast Steuben Count Library in Corning, New York!

Library cards are free if you live in our service area. And you can obtain a card by visiting the Circulation Desk and presenting staff with a form of ID that features your name and your current address.