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Bettye LaVette: Interpretations - The British Rock Songbook

The British Invasion returns to its R&B roots For the last few decades, Bettye LaVette has sung with the kind raw force that makes each word sound like a knife’s being pulled from her side. She mostly performs straight-ahead soul, but she’s tackled covers by Willie Nelson and Ray Charles on previous releases, which means Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook is hardly uncharted territory. She doesn’t just cover The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Who, Led Zeppelin and more—she wholly re-imagines the songs. On Elton John’s “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,” she summons a kind of defiant nerve...  read more

Bettye LaVette Tours With Robert Plant

Bettye LaVette covers “All My Love,” a song Robert Plant recorded with a little band called Led Zeppelin on her new record, Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, due out May 25. Now, Plant has asked LaVette to open for him on his July tour. The singer will also be performing on the Late Show with David Letterman June 23. Check out the list of dates below to find out where you can see one of the greatest voices of classic rock and this R&B queen in person....  read more

Ten May Albums Worth Checking Out

According to popular rhyming legend...  read more

Bettye LaVette Covers The British Rock Songbook on New Album

In 2008, Bettye LaVette performed The Who’s “Love Reign O’er Me,” at The Kennedy Center Honors. The rendition reportedly brought the song’s author Pete Townshend to tears, and became the starting point for an album of covers titled Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook. The album comes out May 25 via Anti....  read more

Blues Music Awards Performers to include Irma Thomas, Taj Mahal, Bettye LaVette, more

It's not that common for one to present an award bearing their own name, but that's exactly what the legendary B.B. King will do May 7 in Memphis, Tenn. at the 30th annual Blues Music Awards, where one nominee will be handed the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award by the man himself....  read more

Various Artists: Dirty Laundry/More Dirty Laundry

As instantly, pleasingly right as the micro-genre's name implies...  read more

Rothbury 2008: Day 2

Rothbury kicked into high gear on Friday, as Jakob Dylan ushered in the afternoon with a set of dusty Americana tunes. Sporting a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses that could've reflected a nuclear blast, Dylan looked like Sheriff Cooley from O Brother, Where Art Thou? while singing in a comfortable, cool baritone. “Let me be the first up here to say ‘Happy 4th of July,’” he said, drawing applause from the crowd of Wallflowers fans and wandering passerby. ...  read more

Bettye Lavette: Late Bloomer Gets Her Mojo On

After Atlantic Records shelved what singer Bettye LaVette had hoped would be her breakthrough album in 1972—an album recorded in soul-music hotbed Muscle Shoals, Ala.—the Detroit native spent more than three decades exiled on the farthest fringes of the music biz, singing for her supper in dives and lounges...  read more