In the 1960s, Bonnie Raitt was attending classes at Harvard and playing folk music in coffee houses. She soon dropped out of college and became a full-time musician but it would be two decades, in 1989, before she had a major breakthrough as a commercial artist with her 10th album, Nick of Time.

Now a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and winner of 13 Grammy Awards, Raitt developed an early love of music. “A Stella guitar given to her as a Christmas present launched Bonnie on her creative journey at the age of eight,” her online bio says.

Raitt is currently touring in support of her 2023 album “Just Like That…,” her 21st album and first new release in more than six years.

Huntsville, Ala.: Von Braun Center

Raitt will perform Nov. 9, 2024 in the Mark C. Smith Concert Hall in Huntsville’s Von Braun Center. At the time of this writing, tickets were available on the secondary market for $83 from SeatGeek | $86 from Vivid Seats | $101 from StubHub | $109 from Ticketmaster.

The title of her new album comes from a line in one of her new songs (“Just like that your life can change”), which seemed especially fitting, she said, “because there’s never been a time that made me look around and say, ‘Nobody saw this coming’—where all of a sudden, everything shifted.”

“Just Like That” won Grammys in 2024 in the categories of Best Americana Performance, Best American Roots Song, and Song of the Year for the album’s title track.

Raitt was ranked No. 50 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time” and ranked No. 89 on the magazine’s list of “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” She will receive the Kennedy Center Honor in December.