Bonnie Raitt
Don Snowden, Rock Around The World, 15 March 1977
ON THE EVE of the release of her sixth album, Sweet Forgiveness, Bonnie Raitt still remains something of an anomaly in a music biz that usually relegates women to the role of back-up "chick" singers.
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