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| Artist : Bettye LaVette |
| Album : Interpretations The British Rock Songbook |
| Label : ANTI |
| Year : 2010 |
| Genre : R&B |
| Rip date : May-19-2010 |
| Store date : May-25-2010 |
| Size : 63,1 MB |
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| 01 - The Word 03:37 |
| 02 - No Time To Live 04:28 |
| 03 - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 03:50 |
| 04 - All My Love 04:11 |
| 05 - Isn't It A Pity 04:20 |
| 06 - Wish You Were Here 03:49 |
| 07 - It Don't Come Easy 04:34 |
| 08 - Maybe I'm Amazed 03:51 |
| 09 - Salt Of The Earth 04:28 |
| 10 - Nights In White Satin 04:24 |
| 11 - Why Does Love Got To Be So Bad 03:58 |
| 12 - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me 05:37 |
| 13 - Love Reign O'er Me (Live) 05:32 |
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| 56:39 min |
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| A perennial cult favorite in Northern soul circles, singer Bettye |
| LaVette was born in Muskegon, MI, on January 29, 1946. Raised primarily |
| across the state in Detroit, at 16 she cut her first sides for the local |
| Lupine label, with a test pressing of the disc making its way to |
| Atlantic Records. After signing with Atlantic, she scored an R&B Top Ten |
| hit out of the box with her debut single, "My Man ù He's a Loving Man," |
| only to fail to reach the same commercial heights again. After one more |
| Atlantic release, 1963's "You'll Never Change," LaVette moved back to |
| Lupine for her third record, "Witchcraft in the Air." After a stint as a |
| featured vocalist with the Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford Revue, she |
| recorded the long-unreleased "One Thin Dime" for Scepter before |
| resurfacing on Calla with the 1965 lost classic "Let Me Down Easy," her |
| only other record to crack the R&B Top 20. Two more Calla efforts ù the |
| fine "Only Your Love Can Save Me" and "I'm Just a Fool for You" ù |
| preceded a shift to Big Wheel, where after just one single, "I'm Holding |
| On," LaVette again moved along, this time to the Karen imprint for "Hey |
| Love."s |
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| Following stays at Silver Fox ("He Made a Woman Out of Me," "Do Your |
| Duty"), SSS International ("Take Another Piece of My Heart"), and her |
| own TCA imprint ("Never My Love"), LaVette returned to Atlantic, signing |
| to their Atco division for 1972's Neil Young cover "Heart of Gold." An |
| LP, Child of the Seventies, was also recorded at Muscle Shoals Studios, |
| but Atco opted against its release after the failure of the single "Your |
| Turn to Cry" (the album was reissued, complete with bonus tracks, in |
| limited copies by Rhino in 2006). After joining the touring company of |
| the Broadway musical Bubbling Brown Sugar, LaVette briefly signed to |
| West End for a disco effort, 1978's "Doin' the Best I Can." |
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| She did not record again until 1982, landing at Motown and rechristening |
| herself "Bettye." However, despite a heavy promotional push, neither the |
| LP Tell Me a Lie nor the single "Right in the Middle (Of Falling in |
| Love)" proved her long-awaited chart breakthrough, and outside of a |
| handful of recordings for Motor City during the '90s, she focused |
| primarily on live appearances in the years to follow. The 2000s found |
| her in the recording studio more frequently with new albums A Woman Like |
| Me being released by the Blues Express label in 2003 followed by I've |
| Got My Own Hell to Raise in 2005 on the Anti label. In 2006, Take |
| Another Little Piece of My Heart, a collection of Silver Fox singles as |
| well as other material, all of which had been recorded in Memphis |
| between 1969 and 1970, came out on VarΦse Sarabande. The Scene of the |
| Crime appeared on Anti in 2007. LaVette next tackled classic songs by |
| the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, and the Who, among others, |
| on 2010's Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, which she co- |
| produced with Rob Mathes and Michael Stevens. |
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