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Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
Bonnie Raitt
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Bonnie Raitt
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
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