Bettye LaVette

Who is Bettye LaVette you ask? The simple answer is Ms. LaVette is one of the greatest soul singers in American music history, possessed of an incredibly expressive voice that one moment will exude a formidable level of strength and intensity and the next will appear vulnerable, reflective, reeking of heartbreak. Unfortunately, it says much about the vagaries of the popular music industry that, although LaVette has been recording for over four decades, up to this point she has remained criminally unknown. On her newest release for Anti Records The Scene of the Crime, LaVette teams with Patterson Hood and his Drive By Truckers to create a masterpiece.

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"Classic soul singing doesn't get any better"
-The New York Times

"Lavette's chill-inducing performance is without question one of the finest you'll hear all year"
-USA Today

"Few make their best record four and a half decades into their career, but this 61-year old Detroit soul singer may have done just that" -Mojo

2008
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