Bonnie Raitt – Bonnie Raitt (CD)

Long before the slide guitar became her signature and "Nick of Time" made her a household name, Bonnie Raitt arrived in 1971 as a fully formed artist, steeped in the blues traditions she'd absorbed from Mississippi Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace. Her self-titled debut, reissued here by Rhino, captures a young woman out of Radcliffe writing her own ticket in a genre that rarely made room for her, and doing it with a confidence that would take the music world another two decades to fully catch up with.