Bettye LaVette
But I know how it feels to grow old
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Bettye LaVette: The Scene of the Crime
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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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Bettye LaVette - Sneaking another post about this incredible album in as a Sunday Under the Covers
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Kinda Funky Bettye LaVette
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Not sure many would really call this funk, but here's a Bettye LaVette cut from her 2005 release "I've Got My Own Hell to Raise". ..Girlcrawl turned me onto Bettye, and after having my socks knocked off by her most recent release, "Scene of the Crime", I decided to start collecting more Bettye. Went to this album next which was her "breakout" album (or did it set the stage for "Scene of the C...
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Bettye LaVette and Drive By Truckers
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The following track is from an incredible new album by Bettye and the Drive By Truckers.
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Holiday Listening and Sharing
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Every year around November the search for a CD starts. We exchange music with several other folks and the goal is to give something we like that our friends would probably never pick up themselves. Earlier in the season I would have laid money on our CD of choice to give being Alison Krauss and Robert Plant. Then we tuned in to Bettye Lavette's latest offering, "Scene of the Crime" featuring th...
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"I will take this road so much farther, though I know not where it takes me."
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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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New Bettye Lavette Video - "Talking Old Soldiers"
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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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MP3s: Bettye LaVette - Heart of Gold
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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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T.V. Eye: January 19-25
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Live music on T.V. this week:Monday, January 19:HBO: We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial: Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, U2, Mary J. Blige, Bettye Lavette, Usher, Stevie Wonder, more (rerun) Syndicated: The Ellen Degeneres Show: T.I.CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Broken Social Scene (rerun)NBC: Late Night...
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