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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 Can’t Make You Love Me” was the product of a collaboration between songwriters Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin. And so, there was an actual phrase in the article. (P) (C) 2010 Capitol Records, LLC. We had this principle that if she couldn’t make the song work from one instrument, then having a band with a great arrangement wasn’t going to change things. It’s the most stereotypical thing, but feel it as you’re playing it. CHERNEY: To this day when I hear it, I’m still moved. Here’s the story of how “I Can’t Make You Love Me” came together and how it became what it is today. ", Carrie Underwood performed this song at her, The Nashville session singer Scat Springs sang on this song's co-writer Mike Reid's 1991 solo album. When they completed the demo, they thought it might be a good fit for Linda Ronstadt, but the song ultimately went to Raitt, who loved it on first listen. In the case of “I Can’t Make You Love Me” she didn’t want to do that because there was something that she was going to tap into in her own life that we never discussed. It’s not who wrote what or thought of what, it’s what got written, and we’re both cool about all that. When Bonnie Raitt decided to sing something, whether or not it was a single release or what, it just made you feel more like a writer. There’s an R&B singer named Tank, great version. I kept saying, “Mike, have you done a demo of it yet?” and he said, “No, I’m not emotionally up to it.” He said, “When I sit down, I really gotta be emotionally up to it.” And then one day, he called and said, “I got it.” So I immediately dropped everything and rode over to his house and listened to that. Here’s the thing about “I Can’t Make You Love Me” that’s different than Raitt’s other hits: It goes beyond her own success with that single and Luck Of The Draw. “I thought, ‘OK, man, just say it’s good. Story by Mike Reid. I was knocked out. REID: Hornsby signed that thing like crazy and I am eternally grateful he did. If I disappear and no one has a clue about my name, I’m good if I know somewhere, someone is singing that song. I had been wrestling with it, because I kept trying to use all the elements and finally just getting rid of everything and going back to that original thing. His unique voice is incredible, making covers like this ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ by … It was spiritual. It was so convincing, it was so real. He had these kind of Celtic voicings that he does on the piano that just — that alone will make you cry, forget the lyrical content [laughs]. It was a real special time. It didn’t have that emotion anymore. Rick Astley on "Never Gonna Give You Up," "Cry For Help," and his remarkable resurgence that gave him another #1 UK album. She keeps finding nuances and changing the phrasing a little bit, and you see a difference. It just pulls you into the moment and the feeling and emotion of it. It was a phone call from Bonnie. I mean, people have asked me “If you had one musician you could take on a desert island…” It would absolutely be Bruce Hornsby. When I play it, I think of ways the lyrics have happened in my life, situations like that have happened around me. “I just felt a real bond with her.” With Raitt wanting a particular kind of producer — a musician’s producer, the kind who says “That’s the take!” but doesn’t enforce a particular stylistic vision on an artist when they already know what they want — Was made an ideal partner in crime. It’s not mournful. It wasn’t something left up to chance, but it was monumental. REID: When I got it, I got in my truck and went down [to see Allen] and we put it in and we were surprised. REID: I worked in a dark basement and I had a phone line down there. Raitt had teamed up with Was and engineer Ed Cherney once more for Luck Of The Draw. Bette Midler, Linda Ronstadt, or Bonnie Raitt.”. Hearing them speak of it now, the process of making Nick Of Time almost sounds like a young, scrappy artist trying to break down the door into the industry. Steve Perry wrote "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" with the opening lyrics, "You make me weep, I wanna die," after seeing his girlfriend kissing another man. As the story goes, she recorded it in one take. RAITT: I couldn’t think of anyone more amazing than Bruce Hornsby to play on it because I’m as much a fan of him as I am of anybody. Salt's "mighty good man" in the Salt-N-Pepa "Whatta Man" video is played by Tupac Shakur. RAITT: The number of people that have written me letters saying that they’ve never seen their husband in tears until they watch him watch me sing that song in concert … it just makes me feel very, very proud and very grateful. Fishbone has always enjoyed much more acclaim than popularity - Angelo might know why. RAITT: I knew it was a really special song and the most special one I was going to be able to record. It was pouring rain that night. When he got the part, it was a sigh of relief and it just made the whole thing coalesce. Now that I was there, in bed with you, I knew that all along it had been building up to something greater. I Can't Make U Love Me, a cover version of the song by Bonnie Raitt (originally titled I Can't … MIKE REID (SONGWRITER): I don’t believe that spirits whisper song titles or stuff into writers’ ears. All rights reserved. The lesson always ended with some improvisation. He wanted to find his own way into it. I didn’t have a rule about it being one take, it’s just that we put so much into making that moment very special that there wasn’t any reason to do it again. Would you please disable adblock? I Can’t Make You Love Me. To play it, and put yourself in that position, can be really emotionally draining and quite scary as well, to be that honest with people. I don’t know if a guy can sing the song. His narrator feels thoroughly dejected. Come on over!” and he came over and we said, “Yeah, this seems to work. The song is about a woman who knows her man has lost interest and just wants to spend one more night with him before moving on with her life. Time, place, chord progression, singer, tones. The left hand moving in harmony with the right hand melody. SHAMBLIN: A couple weeks later, I came in to [Hayes Street Music, my publisher] and everybody was excited and I said, “What’s going on?” Back then, we had voicemail. It’s clearly heard on the record right away. I know I was. I’m very slow. SHAMBLIN: I was knocked out. REID: A legendary jazz-pop singer, Nancy Wilson, did a fantastic, gorgeous rendition of that song. 2015-03-07T21:05:37Z Comment by beautyto_heart. I hadn’t even thought about the uptempo version. I — in my whorish, commercial part of me — thought it would be “Wind Beneath My Wings” … a big, giant production. I’m just thankful for it all. ALLEN SHAMBLIN (SONGWRITER): The newspaper story. Yeah, it’s one of the most exciting things that have happened to me. It took me a minute to figure out to get rid of all that stuff. Having a more R&B approach, "I Can't Make You Love Me" received generally favorable reviews from music critics, while it has achieved minor success on the Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Roots music artists, there’s a whole bunch of us that got played on what would be called “album-oriented rock.” FM radio in the seventies started playing groups like mine and they don’t just play singles so I always had a parallel career before Nick Of Time hit. There wasn’t any question in my mind. So I recorded the basic track and then I overdubbed the piano. 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. I’d have to say right up there was a live version that Aretha Franklin did. 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. I just tried and I couldn’t find the emotion in the thing. So it was very simple. And I immediately thought, “Oh, you can’t say that in a song.” And the minute I thought, “You can’t say that,” I came out of that zone and I was back into my own stupid songwriting self. REID: I had an old piano teacher who was a real stickler about improvisation. Recorded by Bonnie Raitt and others. I started hearing the work we were doing instead of the moment of somebody bearing that soul. If it would’ve stopped right there, I would have been happy today, because it was born. If you heard Mike’s demo, it lays the groundwork for the way we treat it. KATY PERRY (PERFORMER): I rarely perform covers because I enjoy sharing my personal life stories when I sing. I don’t think we could get him to even listen to the demo. I just heard her sing it live a couple months ago and it was just incredible. SHAMBLIN: After we finished the song, Mike didn’t demo it for weeks, if not months, and I knew — at least I felt — that it was the best song I had ever been a part of in my life, and I think Mike felt strongly about it, too. “I Can’t Make You Love Me” is an exception because it strikes such a personal chord in me, and in everyone who hears it. Find your perfect arrangement and access a variety of transpositions so you can print and play instantly, anywhere. It was a good career move: he became a top songwriter in Nashville, and also a prominent artist, with a #1 Country hit, "Walk on Faith," in 1990. I knew we were gonna base it around that. The melody is the melody. He should know that!” I said “No, no, no.” To know that the song lives in the world and people don’t know who wrote it, I’m good with that. The Number Ones: Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”, We’ve Got A File On You: Richard Thompson. Andre 3000 played all the instruments on Outkast's "Hey Ya" except bass. Presents the song through his own lens. And I said, “Well, you gotta go hear Bonnie Raitt’s version.” It’s touched people in a way where they’ve wanted to cover it. In this cover of ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me,’ he leaves it all on the line and stuns viewers. I can’t perform if people are standing there watching me, so when we’re cutting tracks, it’s just the engineers and me, it’s not like a party. But there is a strength combined with a vulnerability. Browse our 30 arrangements of "I Can't Make You Love Me." So we would stop and move on to another song. Mike sent over the cassette. CHERNEY: We started putting production on it. We did a few takes with the trio, Bonnie singing and I did a take or two on the piano. PERRY: I can’t believe we’re celebrating it’s 25th anniversary. I was so overwhelmed to be a part of the song when we finished it, and then to have Bonnie record it. CHERNEY: I could feel her soul when she sang it. "I Can't Make You Love Me" is a 1991 popular song, written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin and recorded by Bonnie Raitt on her Luck of the Draw album from that year. SOAK (PERFORMER): For me, it’s the ultimate love song, because it describes so much and everybody can sympathize with it. ALLEN STONE (PERFORMER): It’s difficult to break down exactly what draws one to a song. He takes his time. But sometimes you get chunks of things. It just had its own life. We weren’t pandering. I’m down there working, and my wife sticks her head in and says, “Hey, you’re gonna get a call, don’t screen it. Look, there’s no way around the fact that it’s a song of intimacy. When you have room and space to dance with your voice. So he could have sent it to any number of people, but I’m really grateful that because of my connection with him — and because I’m such a fan of the way he sings and the way he writes, and of Allen’s too — I was really grateful he sent it to me first. His writing room was in his basement and he said, “Come upstairs, I want to play you something.” Upstairs, he had this beautiful grand piano and he started playing just the melody of “I Can’t Make You Love Me” on his piano. I don’t think she ever sang it quite like that but I wouldn’t even dare to compare performances because I was so moved by the most recent interpretation I heard this year, which was totally fresh and equally emotional. WAS: It wasn’t accidental. STONE: There is a lot of space in that song. Yet at one point in time, she didn’t have songs that were played on pop radio. WAS: Prince cut a version of it and you listen to it for a while and he’s such a great singer and you can marvel at the technique but then he gets to the vamp and he says something like “Come here, baby, I am going to sex you up,” or something like that. You were still in love with someone else. Luck Of The Draw was the follow-up record and we had our first hit with “Something To Talk About” and then the second single was “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” So we already had a nice bed of crossover onto mainstream radio, and it didn’t impact how we cut the songs. Aside from Raitt’s vocal performance, the most celebrated and iconic element of the song is Bruce Hornsby’s piano part. "It was absolutely one of the most honest and original heartache songs I had ever heard," she told the, Many artists have recorded this song over the years in a variety of styles. WAS: Her performance was so vivid that I couldn’t separate. It’s just too personal. Co-writer Mike Reid was a star defensive tackle at Penn State and was drafted seventh overall by the Cincinnati Bengals in 1970. So she said, “Would you mind giving me a hold on that?” and I said, “No, absolutely not, of course.” That means you’re not gonna show it to anybody else. Pick it up.” The phone rang and it was Bonnie. I knew he would play it even if we played it almost exactly like the demo, but you don’t have someone like Bruce come and play on something and expect him to copy somebody, you know? Despite Raitt’s sudden mainstream clout, none of them describe the time as particularly pressurized. I just wanted to be as honest and open as possible. It came through us and it’s like having a baby or a child that grows up to do something really great. It’s getting out of the way and letting a moment happen. Don Was was in the control room, and I think her manager, Ron Stone was in the control room. I don’t care if they do it well or not. CHERNEY: What Bruce is playing out in the vamp, it’s just timeless. I got really choked up because I didn’t want Bonnie to suffer like that. She didn’t have that ubiquity that comes with superstardom. And he said, “We hugged, and we cried, and then we went through the divorce.” And he said, “You know, you just can’t make a woman love you.”, REID: Because we were, quote, “professional songwriters” who thought we knew what we were doing, we wrote that song as an uptempo bluegrass song. “I Can’t Make You Love Me” might be your best-known song at the moment -- it’s the one at the top of your Spotify page, for whatever that’s worth. From listening to her previous album, I was expecting it to be more produced, you know? But everybody kinda got it at the same moment. Reflecting on the scope and reach of the song as it turns 25, many of those involved in its writing or recording are still half-speechless when it comes to summing up their experiences. And it was written by … well, actually, I don’t know who wrote this.” [laughs] I laughed, and my wife got mad, so I didn’t have to. Music video by Bonnie Raitt performing I Can't Make You Love Me. He said to the judge, “I’ve learned that if a woman don’t love ya, you can’t make her…you can’t make her love ya.” The idea came out of that. It can all be put under a microscope. RAITT: Every interview, they say, “How do you feel about the impact that the song has had?” The Voice, or American Idol … Carrie Underwood auditioned with it. I was at home reading the Nashville Banner one morning and there was a story in there about a relative of a local politician — sort of the “black sheep of the family” type — who got all tanked up on moonshine and shot up his girlfriend’s car tires. It goes beyond its exact circumstance and era. The year Bonnie Raitt turned 40, she became a pop star. It was one of those LA rainstorms. They worked on “I Can’t Make You Love Me” in what was then known as Ocean Way Recordings, but has since returned to its original name United Recording Studios. And Bonnie and I are like brother and sister, but I feel like she has been a big sister of mine for 28 years. We knew that that would be tough to follow. WAS: Her interpretation of the song, like a jazz musician, evolves nightly. Like what was going on with Bruce, where it’s performance. That's Bruce Hornsby, who had hits with ", Introducing this song on his 1996 MTV Unplugged special, George Michael said: "This next song is one of my favorite songs ever. I nailed the mix that night, I knew I had it. I definitely was thinking somebody pop, outside of Nashville. There’s a format that always plays me, which they’ve called ten different names over the years, but it’s where Delbert McClinton or John Hiatt or John Prine or Emmylou Harris … we’re now called Americana, the last fifteen years. We spoke to some of the people on the (very) long list of famous artists who have covered the song. HORNSBY: We just played this together [a few] weeks ago at the Berkeley Theatre and it was beautiful. WAS: It’s one of those performances that is so powerful that it changes the definition of what the popular music of the time is. RAITT: I found out afterwards there were other people that wanted to come in, but [Was] shushed them. But we would always come back to it. WAS: I knew [“I Can’t Make You Love Me”] was powerful but I also knew that it defied every convention of what a pop record was in 1991. SOAK: When we were recording, for me the main thing was just singing it as if it was my song. They played it on pop radio stations. All you can do is be proud of your child, and thankful. It’s a really exotic blend. “He came down to the studio and he said something like, ‘Better get a tuxedo, you’re going to the Grammys!’ I wanted to punch him,” Was remembers, laughing. STONE: I really like Bon Iver’s version. The jazz singer Nancy Wilson was one of the first, taking it to #87 on the. So that was pretty shocking, but there just weren’t records like “I Can’t Make You Love Me” on the radio then. This is an intimate song, and to do anything else to it other than that … Don told me — I don’t know if he’d remember saying this to me — that they had a lot more on that record and when they mixed it, they thought, “My God, what happened?” And I said, “Well, what did you do, Don?” And he said, “We just started pulling faders down.”. But there was that piano lick. We talked for a long time, just about life. It’s really weird isn’t it? Not long after that, we’re sitting here, my wife and I, flipping the channels, looking for something, and we go across MTV Unplugged and there’s George Michael! Eventually, they realized they needed to strip the track of many of the overdubs they’d layered onto it. Plus, I took me a minute to recover from how sad it was. But really, Bonnie was the focus. We delve into that song and find out how you can form a band when you don't sing or play an instrument. She knew how to inhabit the song and make it hers. We were thrilled that it was Bonnie and I knew Nick Of Time was her breakout album. Like a guy would come up and say “My wife just keeps playing the song over and over looking out the window and crying.” [laughs] Women would come up and say “It’s going pretty bad in my life and I didn’t know how to contextualize it, but that song makes sense out of it.” That went on for at least ten years. JBL was showing off some of its speakers and they invited me to come in and I played that. It’s strange to think about, for those of us who grew up with Raitt as one of the legendary names, one of the big established artists of the Baby Boomer generation. There’s just something about — not to mention his great personality, how funky he is, and how his chops are incredible — but the way he approaches ballads and the way that he voices chords and the way he plays just moves me like nobody else. CHERNEY: It’s a little like it happened to somebody else. I have never heard a guy who can sing it. HORNSBY: I [play it at] my solo concerts and here is why. Jaten Dimsdale, also known as Teddy Swims, has a YouTube channel with 839k subscribers, for good reason. Luck Of The Draw wound up surpassing even the heights reached by Nick Of Time. It happened so fast. "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). SOAK: Any great song can be played on one instrument. WAS: It’s one of the great rooms of all time but it was a chaotic afternoon. But not understanding that this is a real special moment in time that is probably never going to happen again in your lifetime. REID: I’ve been in restaurants where people have butchered it at a piano and I’m touched by it. It’s like not being able to separate an actor from a role that they’re in. Mike and I both agree on the newspaper, we just have a little bit different memory of what was said in the story that sparked the song. WAS: It was kind of a point of contention for Bruce. Raitt had some demos, and no record deal. And the first time we ran it down and she sang it live like that … my heart went up to my throat and my eyes filled up with tears. I think that there were a couple of lines where she started crying so those were the only things that we had to go back and punch. We just lost Prince, and I thought his version was very beautiful. But strangers used to come up to me in airports. “When you get the right people who really vibe with each other, you don’t have to say much at all,” Raitt says. I have not heard all the versions that I know there are, but I’m always fascinated. That is your goal, really, to help people understand their own lives through music. REID: Allen and I were surprised because the record was so sparse. So anything after that was just a huge blessing. So when I hear it’s a young kid that’s singing that song, I don’t even feel … I mean, I know we wrote it and it came out of us, but really, at this point, we don’t really walk around feeling as though we’re the writers of that song. '”, In the end, it wasn’t hyperbolic at all — the record was already selling well beyond any of their expectations, and then, just under a year after Nick Of Time came out, it won the Album Of The Year award at the 1990 Grammys. RAITT: I was thrilled that he put his own spin on it. You can tell that it hurts but that she’s got the strength to deal with it. I knew that I got it because I got to that sadness again. It's in Grays Harbor County, Washington. Bonnie served the song. I’m sorry, I’m entering old age, and, you know, I wanna be as clear about this as I can: it’s gratitude, and it inspires what I genuinely hope is an authentic humility. They decided to work on her next album together. That idea came out of a newspaper article and I think it was in the world and I happened to pay attention to it enough, mentioned it to a buddy, Allen Shamblin, and off we went, you know? DON WAS (CO-PRODUCER): Bonnie got it and played it for me, and you just knew, you know? It was so emotional on such a myriad of levels but it has to do with something that is very hard to describe in the tone of her voice. Bono came up with the idea of focusing on a soldier's last thoughts as he dies from his wounds in the U2 song "White As Snow" after reading William Golding's 1956 novel Pincher Martin. The intro phrase was mine, certainly; that came with the writing of the song. I’m sure in the Fifties, if you got a Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett cut, it was, “My God!” Bonnie is an artist of that power. Somebody sent it to me, and he put a little bit of “Nick Of Time” on the end of it. She said, “He should know that! SHAMBLIN: I remember we worked on it over March and I came over to Mike’s house one day. STONE: It’s amazing. HORNSBY: There’s a little lounge that was dark late at night before the session. CHERNEY: All that other extemporaneous stuff got in the way of it. October 4, 2014 at Barns of Rose Hill in Berryville Virginia with Marc Beeson and Will Robinson, songwriter Mike Reid performs this classic tune. As they tried to finalize the song, they knew something was off now. But somewhere in that day, I began to connect that phrase “I can’t make you love me” with that verse. They just wanted to make back the money they spent on it, so that they could make another record after it. CHERNEY: Pretty much the way we had mixed it was the instruments on the floor that afternoon. CHERNEY: Finally, when we got him to listen to it, it came together. BONNIE RAITT (SINGER): I heard through the musicians’ community what a great singer and songwriter [Mike] was, so I had his solo album and that’s where I got the first song [“Too Soon To Tell,” from Nick Of Time]. STONE: I just wanted to sing a song that I really loved. L It’s written in a way where you can reduce it to one instrument and vocal, and it still works; which, in turn, means you can adapt it into almost any genre, and it will still work. It didn’t need it. I called him within a couple of days, it was great. Very good version, nice remix, Strong Vocal. Read 41 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. So when I’m singing it, the main thought that is going through my head is “Come on, do better!”. And we became friends after Nick Of Time and he and Allen sent [“I Can’t Make You Love Me”] to me first and I was just knocked out at his own demo of it, because I’m a fan of the way he sings. I Can't Make You Love Me, but I Can Make You Leave book. The judge asked him if he had learned anything, to which he replied, "I learned, Your Honor, that you can't make a woman love you if she don't. Although we had experience with Nick Of Time, our goal was to make the money back and being able to get to a next album. The love you don't feel when you're holding me Mornin' will come and i'll do what's right Just give me till then to give up this fight And i will give up this fight 'Cause i can't make you love me if you don't You can't make your heart feel something that it won't Here in the dark in these final hours I will lay down my heart And i feel the power Judging against most people’s careers, Raitt had already lived a pretty full life. It’s one of those times where everything comes together … it’s one of the most perfect-sounding songs I’ve ever worked on. Genre Pop Comment by Danny Dan 2. big beats,this shit rocks. You know it when you got it, especially when it’s a collaboration. SOAK: When I was a bit younger, I stumbled upon the Bon Iver cover of the song on YouTube. Reid and Shamblin began writing this song with a faster tempo; it came together when they slowed it down. We went through it a couple of times, and we said, “Look, no disrespect, but you really gotta listen to the demo.” And of course, when he heard it, he knew exactly what was going on. RAITT: The Grammy win pushed [Nick Of Time] over into the pop chart, so it made a huge difference, even though the record had sold a million even before the Grammys. I check in my luggage at the airport and some guy goes, “Hey! The artist's voice is tentative and filled with anguish. Their version was released as the album's first single on October 27, 2009. HORNSBY: I can see why it’s covered. REID: At that point, [Was] taught me a great thing: He said, “You know, with an artist like Bonnie, everything you do on the record, everything you do as a producer, you have to ask yourself, ‘Is this gonna enable the listener to have more of an intimate relationship with this artist or is this gonna put something unnecessary between the listener and the artist? Just say you dug it. Raitt called Hornsby and asked him to play on it, to which he immediately agreed. "[2] Reid and Shamblin were both country music songwriters, who according to some accounts originally wrote the song as a fast, bluegrass number. But there was another one, too, one that shouldn’t have been a major radio hit yet became one anyway. SHAMBLIN: I’d be lying if I said I was surprised by [“I Can’t Make You Love Me” becoming a hit] because I saw the impact the song was having on people and I felt like Mike and I had been given a gift, the song, that touched a primal place in people’s hearts. Around the time they were writing “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” Reid and Shamblin had been working together for about a year, writing almost weekly. I love anyone who tries to sing it. I’m not a very fast writer. I added my voicing to the mix. We ended up bringing in Tony Braunagel, who played in my live band. I’d rather that than people know a bunch of songs you wrote and no one can remember them. The judge asked him if he had learned anything, to which he replied, "I learned, Your Honor, that you can't make a woman love you if she don't. It feels like the world’s song. But forget the hyperbole. She called me and asked me to be a part of it. We knew we made a good record, but that kind of accolades…it came out of nowhere for us.”, When it came time to follow that success, Raitt once again worked with Was and Cherney for the record that would become 1991’s Luck Of The Draw. We were younger, and when you’re doing that, you think, oh, you can do that any time. 4. I’m good with that. I knew what it meant to have that woman sing something, you know? 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. It still looks essentially the way it did in the sixties. It took my breath away. They were just making some more music together, and looking for the right material. 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