Bettye LaVette - Worthy - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Detroit native Bettye LaVette is an American R&B singer who has slowly become recognized as one of America's greatest Soul singers. In the early 90's she joined British producer Ian Levine's massive Motorcity Records project and recorded many wonderful tracks. This album is the result of those sessions. All tracks have been newly remastered. Album Tracks 1. Good Luck 2. Right Out of Time 3. Have a Heart 4. Jimmy Mack 5. Let Me Down Easy 6. Out of the Blue 7. Time Won't Change This Love 8. Not Gonna Happen Twice 9. Surrender 10. Too Great a Price to Pay 11. I'm Ready for Love 12. Love Caught Me Out 13. Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead 14. Reach for the Sky

Bettye LaVette's appearance at Barack Obama's inauguration concert in January 2009, singing InchA Change Is Gonna ComeInch, introduced her to a global audience of millions who had hitherto been totally unaware of her immense talent and interpretive powers. She now appears regularly on US TV and has had guest slots on Jay Leno, Letterman, and on most other significant American late-night chat shows. She is a true American music legend, although the critical acclaim, awards and accolades deservedly showered upon her in recent years were a long time coming. Although Lavette recorded for a variety of labels from the early '60s onwards, many soul fans regard the material she recorded for Silver Fox and SSS International in Memphis in the late '60s and early '70s as some of her finest. Nearer To You is a collection of all the singer's recordings from these two labels and includes two fine duets with Hank Ballard. This is the first time this collection has been available in two decades; Nearer To You was originally released in 1991. Album Tracks 1. He Made a Woman Out of Me 2. Nearer to You 3. Do Your Duty 4. Love's Made a Fool Out of Me 5. My Train's Coming in 6. Games People Play 7. At the Mercy of a Man 8. Piece of My Heart 9. Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go 10. Hello Sunshine 11. We Got to Slip Around 12. Easier to Say (Than Do) 13. Let Me Down Easy 14. I'm in Love 15. Feelings 16. Living on a Shoestring

2020 . Blackbirds features songs primarily popularized by women who were the Inchbridge she came across on.Inch The album finds LaVette in top form with powerful renditions of songs that touched her personally. From Dinah Washington's InchDrinking Again,Inch Nina Simone's InchI Hold No GrudgeInch and more, they are all delivered in LaVette's rich & raspy tone. Blackbirds honors LaVette's heritage as an R&B singer and the women who came before her. Album Tracks 1. I Hold No Grudge 2. One More Song 3. Blues for the Weepers 4. Book of Lies 5. Romance in the Dark 6. Drinking Again 7. Strange Fruit 8. Save Your Love for Me 9. Blackbird 10. 3 29