An Intimate Evening with Bettye LaVette

Show Description

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Bettye LaVette will be making a rare performance with her pianist at Joe's Pub on 3/8, singing material that she has never performed on stage previously, songs she hasn't sung for a very long time, as well as a few favorites. (Normally, her shows feature her band.) Show time is 9:30 and if you've never seen her--this is truly a show not to be missed.

Who is Bettye LaVette you ask? The simple answer is Ms. LaVette is one of the greatest soul singers in American music history, possessed of an incredibly expressive voice that one moment will exude a formidable level of strength and intensity and the next will appear vulnerable, reflective, reeking of heartbreak. Unfortunately, it says much about the vagaries of the popular music industry that, although LaVette has been recording for over four decades, up until recent years she has remained criminally unknown.

For her new CD "The Scene Of The Crime", Bettye Lavette and Drive-By Truckers collaborate on this one-of-a-kind record filled with mini-dramas about life, love and survival. A blistering mix of anguished soul & greasy rock & roll, laced with the swampy guitars, Spooner Oldham’s slippery Wurlitzer piano and Bettye’s razor sharp voice in the forefront.

Her first sold-out Joe's Pub show won rave reviews from the New York Times, who praised her "pure, magnificent soul: passion carried by an eloquent voice and exquisite timing...Her voice was wounded and tough, and she deployed it shrewdly, starting with quiet, coiled phrases, rising to gritty moans and lashing out in quick staccato outbursts."