Bonnie Raitt and Marc Cohn heat up the night in Midland

Marc Cohn made a point of telling Tuesday’s standing-room-only crowd at the Midland Center for the Arts about Muriel Davis Wilkins, the piano-playing Christian woman who inspired the Jewish kid from Cleveland that rainy night in Memphis some 21 years ago. And Bonnie Raitt, well, she spent the rest of the night paying homage to the musicians who kept her on course for more than four decades, some sharing the stage with her Tuesday and others remembered in song. But Cohn and Raitt delivered it all in voices most definitely their own, and in the process set the bar high for all that follow their launch of the 2012 Matrix:Midland Festival.

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