Bettye LaVette – Things Have Changed (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Bettye LaVette – Things Have Changed (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:04 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Blues, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve

A great, revived soul voice. Politically-conscious songs from the Great American Songbook. This project harks back to the 1960s (and beyond), but it finds a strong echo in today’s America, divided and rocked by President Trump… By dedicating the whole record to covers of songs by Bob Dylan, Bettye LaVette makes her voice heard, literally and figuratively. Produced by Steve Jordan, Things Have Changed which features, amongst others, Keith Richards and Trombone Shorty, alternates between warm, vintage soul, and funkier bursts of real rock’n’roll. Above all, the 72-year old soul artist from Michigan continues to prove that she has a lot of singing in her yet.

LaVette made her definitive comeback as long ago as 2005, with the album I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise, itself also made up of covers, this time of songs from artists like Sinéad O’Connor, Lucinda Williams, Joan Armatrading, Rosanne Cash, Dolly Parton, Aimee Mann and Fiona Apple. Two years later she confirmed her vocal powers with The Scene Of The Crime which revisited Eddie Hinton, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, John Hiatt and Elton John. Coming, like all good things in spurts of threes,Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, from 2010, saw her taking on compositions by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Traffic, the Animals, Led Zep, George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, the Moody Blues, Derek & The Dominos and the Who… This latest 2018 offering, though, stands head and shoulders above the others, thanks to the hair-raising sincerity that the singer brings to Dylan’s repertoire. Great art.

Tracklist:

1-01. Bettye LaVette – Things Have Changed (06:56)
1-02. Bettye LaVette – It Ain’t Me Babe (05:29)
1-03. Bettye LaVette – Political World (04:03)
1-04. Bettye LaVette – Don’t Fall Apart On Me Tonight (05:06)
1-05. Bettye LaVette – Seeing The Real You At Last (05:06)
1-06. Bettye LaVette – Mama, You Been On My Mind (03:45)
1-07. Bettye LaVette – Ain’t Talkin’ (05:39)
1-08. Bettye LaVette – The Times They Are A-Changin’ (05:07)
1-09. Bettye LaVette – What Was It You Wanted (04:42)
1-10. Bettye LaVette – Emotionally Yours (05:24)
1-11. Bettye LaVette – Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others) (03:35)
1-12. Bettye LaVette – Going, Going, Gone (04:05)

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