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OLD TIME SHREDDERS Tristan Merrick, Winter XGames announcer, meets Spencer O’Brien, XGames medallist, and Olympic athlete. Tristan and Spencer used to shred Mount Washington back in their school days. O’Brien competed at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, where she finished 12th Sunday in the ladies’ snowboard slopestyle final. Earlier, she placed third in qualifying.
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that in her career,” Cox said. “Most musicians that go in that direction, they basically stay in that direction. But she’s also become a huge pop star over the years. “She also has one of the most recognizable voices on the planScott Stanfield et,” he added. Raitt comes by her talents honRecord Staff estly. Doug Cox says he’s finding it Her father, John Raitt, was a increasingly difficult to find a celebrated Broadway singer and female headliner for Vancouver her mother, Marge Goddard, was Island MusicFest. an accomplished pianist and singBut the executive producer of er. She released a self-titled debut the annual gathering in Courte- album in 1971. nay has managed to rustle up one Her 19th recording, Slipstream, of the best in the earned her 10th business — none Grammy for Best other than singer/ Americana Album songwriter Bonin 2012. nie Raitt, a slide Rolling Stone guitarist extraordinamed Raitt one naire whose illusof the 100 greatest trious career has singers of all time. garnered 10 GramShe was inducted my Awards and a into the Hall in Rock and Roll Hall 2000, and received of Fame induction. a lifetime achieve“She’s as good as ment award from it gets,” says Cox, the Americana himself a slide guiMusic Association tarist. “She’s one of in 2012. the real trailblaz“She’s had an ers on the slide extraordinary guitar, and one of career,” Cox said. the biggest inspira- SLIDE GUITAR STAR “Her music comes tions for anybody Bonnie Raitt will be one from a place of who’s a slide play- of the headliners for this truth and of deep, er.” deep roots. There’s year’s event. Raitt, 64, is not many modern among the few women who stud- pop stars that can claim that. ied with some of the great blues “That’s one of the things I players. As a young woman, Cox admire about her so much. The notes, she was a disciple of Mis- depth of her music goes way sissippi Fred McDowell, a pur- beyond most modern pop stars.” veyor of original Delta blues. Raitt will perform Saturday, “She comes from the tradition July 12 at the 20th anniversary of of a serious blues student, and MusicFest, which is already half she’s become so much more than ... see SELLOUT ■ 2
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