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Raitt was soon opening for them on the road — college was a distant memory — and in 1971 she headed out to a studio at an empty summer camp in Minnesota to record her first album, the self-titled Bonnie Raitt. It included freewheeling songs recorded live to tape. Among them was the Robert Johnson classic "Walking Blues," with Raitt on slide guitar and bluesman Junior Wells on harmonica.
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Though album sales were modest, Bonnie Raitt was warmly received by rock critics. "Raitt is a folkie by history but not by aesthetic," wrote Robert Christgau in his Consumer Guide column. "She includes songs from Steve Stills, the Marvelettes, and a classic feminist blues singer named Sippie Wallace because she knows the world doesn't end with acoustic song-poems and Fred McDowell. An adult repertoire that rocks with a steady roll, and she's all of twenty-one years old."
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Raitt was born in 1949 in California, and her father was renowned Broadway star John Raitt. Bonnie began playing the guitar at age 12, but at that time it was only a hobby. After she enrolled at Radcliffe in 1967, she became involved with the local music scene, and took leaves of absence from school to continue to develop her musical style. Raitt's big break came in 1970, when she was invited to tour with The Rolling Stones. Bonnie Raitt tickets have been a popular item ever since, as the singer has produced 11 Top 100 singles, and her 1989 album, Nick of Time , won three Grammy Awards. Her music has since garnered six additional Grammy Awards, and she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
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In a field dominated by men, men, and more men, Bonnie Raitt has managed to kick hellacious ass all over the brotherhood of guitar since her eponymous debut album unveiled her soulful slide playing and singing back in 1971. Using the blues as a launching pad, Raitt fearlessly explored folk, R&B, Americana, and world music styles, while accumulating—as a writer herself, an interpreter of cover tunes, and a discoverer of transcendent songwriters—a stunning collection of heartfelt musical poems of the human condition. About as far from a pop princess as a whale is to a guppy, Raitt’s restless creative spirit, devotion to activism (she co-founded Musicians for Safe Energy, and is a founding member of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation), and no-compromise demeanor shackled her to a long tenure as a critic’s fave who didn’t exactly set any album-sales records.
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Every cloud has a silver lining, but no clouds hung overhead as Bonnie Raitt introduced herself to the Riverside in Milwaukee last night. Her most recent album, Silver Lining, comes out Tuesday, April 9.
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Raitt dropped out of Radcliffe College, and within a few months, at age 21, she signed with Warner BrothersRecords, which released her debut album Bonnie Raitt in 1971. Warner would release eightadditional Raitt albums between 1972 and 1986.
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