Jazz Articles about Bettye LaVette

Bettye Lavette: Interpretations - The British Rock Songbook

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
July 14, 2010

Bettye Lavette Interpretations: The British Rock SongbookAnti- Records2010

Perennial also-ran Bettye Lavette, among the many very good 1960s Detroit soul singers not signed to Motown--others include Barbara Lewis, Deon Jackson and Edwin Starr--offers a concept album of sorts. An interesting concept, too: R&B covers of classic British rock hits, from roughly the mid-1960s to the early 1970s (Led Zeppelin's “All My Love," from 1979, is an outlier in temporal terms).There ...