 | Bettye LaVette
Tags: Bettye, Lavette
Description:
Let Me Down Easy
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 | Bettye Lavette - Let Me Down Easy
Tags: Detroit, Diva, Motown, Northern-Soul, Sixties-Soul
Description:
Although she was indeed signed to Motown, and therefore was an obvious contender to become a part of Motorcity, the sassy Miss B. was far more well known for her work prior to Motown, on Atlantic, Calla, Big Wheel, West End, Atco, and on so many other labels. I adore her voice. Amy Winehouse has just made a major pop career by sounding like Bettye Lavette. Not only did Bettye sound fabulous, and still does, but she was drop dead gorgeous too, as her pictures will attest. She was a privilege to have on Motorcity, and to record more than an album's worth of material with her, and, in fact, only recently, her old Motorcity recording of "Right Out Of Time" has just gone massive with a brand new version that we cut, a version that's attracted all the acclaim that the original production never had, and even got played on Radio Two. Bettye's biggest ever hit was "Let Me Down Easy", a record on the Calla label that the late Dave Godin revered as if it were a religious experience. We were fortunate enough in Detroit in 1990 to not only re-record it, but to shoot some wonderful footage of the lady singing her heart and soul out like no one else can.
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 | Bettye Lavette - Backstage Interview
Tags: Bettye, Lavette, Reelblack
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Reelblack chats one-on-one with award winning Soul Legend Bettye Lavette about the road to becoming a master of her craft. Visit bettyelavette.com for tour dates and info. A Reelblack exclusive.
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 | Bettye Lavette - Talking Old Soldiers
Tags: Anti/Epitaph, Bettye, Lavette, Old, R&B, Soldiers, Talking
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Talking Old Soldiers by Bettye Lavette
(c) 2007 Anti, Inc.
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 | Bettye Lavette - Little Sparrow-Live.
Tags: Bettye, Lavette, Little, Sparrow-Live.
Description:
Bettye Lavette - Little Sparrow-Live.
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 | Bettye Lavette - You Don't know me at all
Tags: betty, blues, darryl, lavette, livegigvideo, pierce, television
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Betty and her band with drummer Darryl Pierce (who is a personal friend of mine) play on the Conan Obrien show 1/17/08
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 | BETTYE LAVETTE - JOY
Tags: BETTYE, JOY, LAVETTE
Description:
the truly wonderful Lady of Soul - one of the highlights at the recent NSJ Rotterdam
cover of Lucida Williams song from great last album
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 | BETTYE LAVETTE / CHOICES
Tags: Alan, and, Bartels, bass/vocals, bettye, blues, Brett, choices, Chuck, crime, Darryl, Director, drums, festival, guitar/vocals, Hill, keyboards/vocals, lavette, Lucas, massachusetts, mountain, Music, of, Pierce, princeton, scene, sodafixer, soul, the, wachusett
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Wachusett blues festival in Princetion Massachusetts September 2008
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 | The Battle of Bettye LaVette
Tags: bettye, crime, lavette, of, scene, the
Description:
Bettye LaVette "Before the Money Came",
from her new album "The Scene of the Crime", released on Anti- Records. Out Now!
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 | Bettye LaVette: Close As I'll Get To Heaven
Tags: Bettye, Heaven, LaVette
Description:
Bettye LaVette performing "Close As I'll Get To Heaven"
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 | Bettye Lavette - Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead
Tags: Classic, Detroit, Diva, Girl-Groups, Motorcity, Motown, Northern-Soul, Sixties, Soul
Description:
Miss B. sings the Marvelettes classic Sixties hit, and totally, overwhelmingly, makes it her own. Although she was indeed signed to Motown, and therefore was an obvious contender to become a part of Motorcity, the sassy Miss B. was far more well known for her work prior to Motown, on Atlantic, Calla, Big Wheel, West End, Atco, and on so many other labels. I adore her voice. Amy Winehouse has just made a major pop career by sounding like Bettye Lavette. Not only did Bettye sound fabulous, and still does, but she was drop dead gorgeous too, as her pictures will attest. She was a privilege to have on Motorcity, and to record more than an album's worth of material with her, and, in fact, only recently, her old Motorcity recording of "Right Out Of Time" has just gone massive with a brand new version that we cut, a version that's attracted all the acclaim that the original production never had, and even got played on Radio Two. Bettye's biggest ever hit was "Let Me Down Easy", a record on the Calla label that the late Dave Godin revered as if it were a religious experience. We were fortunate enough in Detroit in 1990 to not only re-record it, but to shoot some wonderful footage of the lady singing her heart and soul out like no one else can. At the same time, we cut this, along with loads of other wonderful performances, in Sylvia Moy's Masterpiece Studios.
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