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2020's Travel Songs - Part 2

The second part of the mixtape is devoted to the best songs that in 2020 helped us travel across the walls that confined us. Click here to listen to the first part of the mixtape. Happy listening! Playlist Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven Me and the Devil" We're New Again -A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven (XL Recordings) 46:28 Irreversible Entanglements No Más" Who Sent You? (International Anthem) 4:47 Cosmic Vibrations feat. Dwight Trible How Long" Pathways ...
read moreRomance in the Dark - Celebrating Bettye LaVette's Latest Release

Included are new releases from Bettye LaVette (pictured), Champian Fulton, Nubya Garcia, The Moore-McColl Jazz Society and Kenny Washington plus singles from Emilie-Claire Barlow & Bocana and Sue Maskaleris with more birthday shoutouts to Charlie Parker (100!), Hilary Gardner, Naomi Moon Siegel, Russ Kassoff, Jimmy Rowles and more. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of lockdown. Playlist Champian Fulton Quasimodo" from Birdsong (Self released) 00:00 Giacomo Gates ...
read moreBettye LaVette: Things Have Changed

Bettye LaVette's Things Have Changed isn't merely a homage to Bob Dylan, it is also a remarkable combination of invention and polish, as arresting in production, arrangement and playing as in the novel choice of songs. The venerable r&b/soul vocalist collaborates with an esteemed roster of musicians, overseen by producer/drummer Steve Jordan (Keith Richards, Boz Scaggs), all of whom sound as inspired by each other as by the range of the Nobel Laureate's compositions, spanning over forty years. The remarkable ...
read moreBettye LaVette: Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook

Cross Nina Simone with Tina Turner and you get Bettye LaVette. Finally receiving the attention she deserves, LaVette finds herself on a most receptive world stage. LaVette appeared at the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors, in tribute to The Who's Peter Townsend and Roger Daltrey, singing Love Reign O'er Me," from Quadrophenia (Polydor, 1979). Video of the performance shows a stunned and humble Townsend and Daltrey, hearing their iconic song sung by an icon. Interpretations is a bold and are breathtaking ...
read moreBettye Lavette: Interpretations - The British Rock Songbook

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 ...
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