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Bettye LaVette

MP3s: Bettye LaVette - Heart of Gold
6 months ago

Video: Bettye LaVette - "Heart Of Gold" (live) Live at Joe's Pub in New York's East Village on March 8, 2009, this is a soulful cover of Neil Young's biggest hit. Pretty cool. MP3: Bettye LaVette - "Heart of Gold"...

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New Bettye Lavette Video - "Talking Old Soldiers"
about 1 year ago

This black and white Lex Halaby-directed clip finds Detroit's own Bettye LaVette alone at the Lockeroom Lounge, blowing smoke, drinking too much wine, looking at photos, staring at the walls, and singing about what it's like to grow old and having a graveyard for a friend. Her take is jazzier, smokier than Elton John's version . It comes from last year's The Scene Of The Crime , which as we men...

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LaVette Rocks With Drive-By Truckers On New CD
over 2 years ago

Soul vocalist Bettye LaVette is backed by Southern rock combo the Drive-By Truckers on her new album, "The Scene of the Crime." Due Sept. 25 via Anti-, the album finds LaVette interpreting material penned by such artists as Willie Nelson and Elton John. A track list has yet to be announced.In addition to the Truckers, contributions were turned in by Muscle Shoals keyboardist Spooner Oldham and ...

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Bettye LaVette - Sneaking another post about this incredible album in as a Sunday Under the Covers
over 2 years ago
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AMAZING stuff here. Bought this album a couple weeks ago after reading Girlcrawl's post about it. http://mog.com/Girlcrawl/blog_post/113437 Thank you Girlcrawl for turning me on to this! Never had met Bettye before. I'm enjoying it greatly and recommend it highly. What a fantastic voice this lady has. While much of it is a slower tempo than I typically prefer every cut on this disc is exc...

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Bettye LaVette: The Scene of the Crime
over 2 years ago
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ANTI- Records officially releases Bettye LaVette's new CD The Scene Of The Crime tomorrow 25 September 2007. The album was recorded at the legendary Muscle Shoals FAME studio, the same studio where 34 years earlier Bettye recorded a masterpiece entitled Child Of The Seventies which Atlantic inexplicably shelved thus effectively and tragically derailing her career. The lost 'masterpiece' was fin...

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"I will take this road so much farther, though I know not where it takes me."
over 2 years ago

The day I turned 23, a few years ago, was a little traumatic for me. For some reason, when I was younger, 23 had been cemented in my mind as a magical age when I'd have my life figured out - when, if I hadn't quite reached all my goals yet, I'd at least know where I was going. Instead, of course, I was right in the middle of a standard quarterlife crisis, unsure of anything except the fact th...

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SUTC - Talking Old Soldiers
2 months ago

While MOG is broken, some of us are finding other ways to skin a cat and post some music. Here you can listen to this wonderful, emotional version of this Elton track.

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But I know how it feels to grow old
over 2 years ago
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well well here little kiddiesTHIS is some serious stuff herejust got this but not properly listenedwhat i have heard is classic!good gawdallmusic reviewif you want a listen,you KNOW where to go

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Bettye LaVette: The Scene of the Crime
over 2 years ago
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ANTI- Records officially releases Bettye LaVette's new CD The Scene Of The Crime tomorrow 25 September 2007. The album was recorded at the legendary Muscle Shoals FAME studio, the same studio where 34 years earlier Bettye recorded a masterpiece entitled Child Of The Seventies which Atlantic inexplicably shelved thus effectively and tragically derailing her career. The lost 'masterpiece' was fin...

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LaVette Rocks With Drive-By Truckers On New CD
over 2 years ago

Soul vocalist Bettye LaVette is backed by Southern rock combo the Drive-By Truckers on her new album, "The Scene of the Crime." Due Sept. 25 via Anti-, the album finds LaVette interpreting material penned by such artists as Willie Nelson and Elton John. A track list has yet to be announced.In addition to the Truckers, contributions were turned in by Muscle Shoals keyboardist Spooner Oldham and ...

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Joy! Joy! Joy!: Bettye LaVette
about 1 year ago

"Talking Old Soldiers" was the first Bettye LaVette song I heard.Next is "Sleep to Dream / I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got." This is truly kick A$$. Can she sing! "Joy / Let Me Down Easy - Jools - 11-11-2005"Bettye LaVette Interview"Before the Money Came (The Battle of Bettye LaVette" A damn shame it took the music biz 40 years to come round to her.

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