WHEN BONNIE RAITT’S COMEBACK BECAME A MEDIA STORY, THE HEADLINES FOCUSED ON HER STRUGGLES — BUT SHE LATER SAID THE TRUTH WAS FAR MORE COMPLICATED
There was a period when Bonnie Raitt seemed to be discussed almost as much for what she had survived as for the music she was making. By the end of the 1980s, the singer and slide-guitar master had endured a bruising professional stretch: her relationship with Warner Bros. had collapsed, her commercial momentum had faded,…