Bettye LaVette - Scene of the Crime
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Free Music Review: Wow!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is my first exposure to Bettye LaVette after hearing a track from this CD on The Current. This is an amazing CD that could only have come from the gut of a life well-lived. Everyone should own a copy...Free Music Review: Less Old Style
Hit: 4 Stars
Betty gives it to us in a more contemporary delivery, as opposed to " I've Got My Own Hell to Raise ", and she still has that unique ability to make strangers say, " wow, who is that". I first got interested in her via an Esquire magazine review, which stated Betty's voice moved people in different ways, but you would be moved !!!
Betty is truly one of a kind, and this recording will make you glad you took the time to listen.
Free Music Review: Bettye LaVette Hits Another Home Run
Hit: 5 Stars
Bettye LaVette is like a vintage bottle of Bordeaux; she gets better with age. Scene of the Crime picks up where she left us with I've Got My Own Hell to Raise. I'm a relatively new fan having discovered Bettye about three years ago. I've seen her about a half dozen times during these past few years, and always walk away breathless. During this period of time, I've acquired four or five of her older records. I enjoy all of them, but I've got to say, I like the deeper, smokier voice that I hear on the newer ones. In addition to the changes in her range, she's developed the distinguishing characteristic of all the great vocalists I've seen/heard over the past thirty plus years (Sarah Vaughn for example), the ability to make someone else's song their own. She owns the material on this record. This record also has the swampy undertones of the great work that came out of Muscle Shoals in the late Sixties, early Seventies. All in all, it's another long ball from one of the greats. Free Music Review: Bettye and the Drive by Truckers together -- SMOKING HOT
Hit: 5 Stars
What a tremendous combination this is! Smoking, explosively honest southern soul from Bettye, with the Drive By Truckers providing the rock hard R&B grooves. This lady rocks the house! If Tina Turner sang with the Black Crowes, it MIGHT come out this good. Five stars and looking forward to more. Just dig the song samples for a tantalizing taste -- there are no duds on this disk.Free Music Review: What can I add to this?
Hit: 5 Stars
The first time I heard Bettye Lavette sing, the hair stood up on the back of my neck and I got tears in my eyes. I still feel the same way at least three years later. What can I honestly add to what's been said about her? Other CDs I'd mention a standout song--in three plays, I can't say there is one. One thing I will say--I play every song of hers every time and I don't know how anyone can play her without repeating a song or two multiple times. If you love R&B, give this lady a listen. I believe you'll be very glad you did.