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Bonnie Raitt: Freebo's Travels With Bonnie

John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 20 April 1978

LOS ANGELES – AT AN age when most rock musicians are superstars in decline, prosperous session players, or in their fifth or so year of engaging in alternate lines of work while threatening to return to the wars any day now, he sits in his apartment in the heart of one of L.A.'s dowdier white neighborhoods, in a living room furnished in garage-sale not-so-modern and says, "I'm anything but a rich man, but I'm still happy with my decision."

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