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Bonnie Raitt: Bonnie's Blues

Penny Valentine, Let It Rock, August 1975

WHEN SHE SINGS 15 year old girls run out of the audience, down the auditorium, arms raised in a two fisted salute. What they are acknowledging is not just the best white female blues musician in the world, but a new music heroine.

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