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Bonnie Raitt, (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues/R&B singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt.
Raitt began playing guitar at an early age, something not a lot of her high school girlfriends did. Later she would become famous for her bottleneck-style guitar playing. “I had played a little at school and at camp,” she later recalled in a July 2002 interview. “My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby—nothing more…I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living. I grew up…in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.”
In 1967 Raitt continued her pursuit in that path when she entered Harvard’s Radcliffe College as a freshman, majoring in African Studies. “My plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism,” Raitt recalled. “I wanted to help undo the damage that Western colonialism had done to native cultures around the world. Cambridge was a hotbed of this kind of th...
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Top 10 Bonnie Raitt Songs
I Can't Make You Love Me
Something To Talk About
Love Sneakin' Up On You
You
Not The Only One
Dimming Of The Day
Love Letter
Spit Of Love
Love Me Like A Man
Silver Lining
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Top 10 Bonnie Raitt Albums
Luck Of The Draw
Longing In Their Hearts
The Best Of Bonnie Raitt On Capitol 1989-2003
Nick Of Time
Silver Lining
Souls Alike
The Bonnie Raitt Collection
Bonnie Raitt
The Best Of Bonnie Raitt
Road Tested (disc 2)
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