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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Ben Salmon / The Bulletin
September 1, 2006
Raitt was born into a musical family in 1949, the daughter of an accomplished pianist and a Broadway singer who lived in L.A. She got her first guitar at age 8 and headed east in the late 1960s to attend Harvard University.
After a couple of years playing coffeehouses between classes, Raitt left....
