HORNSBY: Well I’ve done a lot of records through the years and I also cite that as being possibly being the record that I have played on for another artist that I am the most proud of. RAITT: [Justin Vernon’s] was a total surprise. Bette Midler, Linda Ronstadt, or Bonnie Raitt.”. CHERNEY: To this day when I hear it, I’m still moved. HORNSBY: We just played this together [a few] weeks ago at the Berkeley Theatre and it was beautiful. . RAITT: I knew it was a really special song and the most special one I was going to be able to record. Even with Raitt’s surprising latter-day commercial success and even with other hit singles recently under her belt, “I Can’t Make You Love Me” wasn’t exactly a song built to conquer the pop charts of 1991. CHERNEY: Finally, when we got him to listen to it, it came together. I think it was probably about four in the morning, raining, and I was alone. I saw her perform that song a couple months back and to this day she sings it with conviction. It was like real life. If you heard Mike’s demo, it lays the groundwork for the way we treat it. . When I can get out of my own way, those things that want to be said, the ideas that are in the world, are there. You know it when you got it, especially when it’s a collaboration. It still comes across as something that none of them ever expected, making them all the more grateful and stunned that it happened, and that the song continues to resonate with people across generations or genres. I started hearing the work we were doing instead of the moment of somebody bearing that soul. WAS: It was in Studio B, where Sinatra cut “It Was A Very Good Year” and a lot of his great songs. I Can't Make You Love Me. There wasn’t necessarily a weight to following up the biggest record of Raitt’s career thus far. RAITT: It’s a pretty devastating song to sing more than once [laughs]. It’s become a standard of sorts, perennially covered by stars like George Michael, Prince, and Boyz II Men, and younger artists like Adele, Katy Perry, Bon Iver, SOAK, and Allen Stone. As weird as that is, it seems to work.”. Here's my version of Bonnie Raitt's "I can't make you love me.? You can't make your heart feel somethin' it won't Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. REID: I mean, I don’t even know what to say other than it’s a beyond delight, or beyond meaningful, that a kid addresses that song, that that song has tended to have a life across generations. HORNSBY: I [play it at] my solo concerts and here is why. WAS: Her performance was so vivid that I couldn’t separate. She knew how to inhabit the song and make it hers. He did it through the Hornsby filter, which really kicked it up to another level. According to the I Can't Make You Love Me Songfacts, Reid got the idea for the song from a newspaper article about a guy who got drunk and shot up his girlfriend's car. After they got the basic recording done, they set about adding overdubs and embellishments to the song. Through various generations, there are artists that validated you as a writer. Leave feedback. Ian C.T. They decided to work on her next album together. The sentiment he invokes is very special. ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ is the only song that makes me cry.”. More than ubiquity, this is the kind of stuff that gets woven into the atmosphere, lingering in our collective pop consciousness until others grab onto it and give it their own spin. This is timeless songwriting that never goes out of style. I knew it mainly because I couldn’t … my reaction was “Show me the guy who was doing this to you and I am going to fuck him up.” I wanted to protect her. I check in my luggage at the airport and some guy goes, “Hey! Once we cut it, we knew that once something like this comes along — if it comes along once a decade, you’re lucky. So that’s as much as I had. And I will give up this fight. The way I move through the chords playing harmony … It’s more about moving voices underneath the melody, voices meaning other tones and other notes in the left hand. According to [Shamblin], there’s been over 550 covers of that thing. We became friends right after. "I Can't Make You Love Me" is a song written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin and recorded by American singer Bonnie Raitt for her eleventh studio album Luck of the Draw (1991). But I do believe that there are things…I’m not sure the ideas live in us as much as the ideas are in the world, the world is full of ideas. When he finally got the demo for “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” he sent a cassette and a handwritten note to her PO box address. I don’t know how to say it. This is a great song sung amazingly by one of the great singers, so that’s how I would describe this song’s enduring popularity. Having been performing and releasing music since the early ’70s, she had gradually accrued devoted fans and critical praise, though little commercial success on a mainstream level. SHAMBLIN: Mike and I have talked about it. RAITT: I knew at the time when I finished singing it that I thought we had it. It’s not like you stumbled on something. I remember sitting with the piano in there and there was no one in the room, so I learned the song and I changed a bit of it. But there was something about that song, “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” I knew it was gonna be a while before somebody wrote something else that was that good. I don’t care if they do it well or not. CHERNEY: I don’t know how much I can say about how much trouble it was to get Bruce to play the goddamn lick. Presents the song through his own lens. So we would stop and move on to another song. Those are always fun songs to sing. So I called Allen and I said, “Allen, what are you doing? It goes beyond its constant and sustained presence on Adult Contemporary and soft-rock stations. I knew what it meant to have that woman sing something, you know? They continued working on demos in Was’ basement, never imagining that they were crafting the album that would garner Raitt a belated commercial breakthrough. WAS: There’s a strength in the way that she sings it on the record. It can all be put under a microscope. CHERNEY: I know a lot of great singers really quote that as a benchmark for a ballad. It was just one of those moments where the studio disappears, and the whole world disappears, and all that’s there is the emotion of that thing. HORNSBY: Bonnie is one of those singers that people might refer to as a “phonebook singer.” She could sing the phonebook and would give you chills. It’s a studio loaded with history: Coltrane, Madonna, Sinatra, Michael Jackson. 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