by Richard Skelly » Mon May 14, 2018 11:22 pm
Delaney Bramlett wrote this song about then-wife Bonnie whom he’d married in 1967 after she sang backup with his Shindogs band, reportedly at a California bowling alley gig. At the time, Delaney’s group was the house band for tv’s Shindig. Bonnie had been an Ikette with the Ike and Tina Turner Revue.
It would be a year or so until Delaney and Bonnie caught on. Until then, Delaney took work where he could find it...including pitching and then arranging Blue Bonnie Blue to Alberta rockers 49th Parallel when they cut some 1968 sessions in Los Angeles.