Bettye LaVette puts a torrid touch on rock classics

10/03/10 Most of the songs in Bettye LaVette's 70-minute set at the Old Town School of Folk Music Saturday night would be immediately familiar to anyone who's spent a few days listening to classic rock radio. The way she sang them was another matter.

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Patti Smith, Roots, J Mascis Honor Neil Young Live

02/11/11 The watershed moment of Thursday night's star-studded Neil Young tribute concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall came just 20 minutes into the two-hour-plus set, as 65-year-old soul singer Bettye LaVette finished her jazz-flecked rendition of "Heart of Gold." "I was the only black chick in the inner city singing that in 1972," she joked. Two minutes later, J Mascis, the bespectacled, long-gray ...

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Steve Cropper Taps B.B. King, Steve Winwood for 5 Royales Tribute Album

06/30/11 Steve Winwood, B.B. King, Sharon Jones, Bettye LaVette and Lucinda Williams are among the artists assisting guitarist Steve Cropper in his salute to the 5 Royales.

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