Bonnie Raitt: Home Plate (Warner Bros.)
Penny Valentine, Street Life, 1 November 1975
BONNIE RAITT is an intriguing talent, firmly rooted in the music of men like Otis Rush and Fred McDowell whom she met and worked with in her late teens.
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