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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...more on "The Scene Of The Crime" biography >>
Bettye LaVette just completed a new video for her cover of "Talking Old Soldiers". The song, from her latest CD The Scene of the Crime features the Drive By Truckers as her backing band. USA Today noted that Bettye “transforms Elton John’s Tumbleweed Connection obscurity into a tour de force about outliving the people one loves the most. “How the hell do they know what it’s like to have a graveyard for a friend?” she wails, looking around the bar at the youngsters who’ve dismissed her as a crazy old lush…LaVette’s chill-inducing performance is without question one of the finest you’ll hear all year.” The video was filmed by Lex Halaby in The Locker Room, a bar in her hometown of Detroit, where she spent many a night feeling the things that appealed to her in the lyrics of the song. Bettye said she chose to record “Talking Old Soldiers,” because "it is a true segment of my life." Bettye will also be featured on Austin City Limits beginning the week of October 11. Please check their website for your local PBS station schedule >> See Bettye LaVette live this fall: tour dates >>
Bettye LaVette’s 1982 gem, Tell Me A Lie, will be available as a re-issued CD on May 20. Recorded in Nashville and released by Motown, LaVette cut 10 songs with top players including the Memphis Horns, featuring Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love. This critically acclaimed session from LaVette found her teamed with ace producer Steve Buckingham and included LaVette’s R&B chart hit, “Right In The Middle (Of Falling in Love).” The CD is re-issued by Reel Music, remastered by Grammy-nominated engineer Bill Lacey in 24 bit from the original analog masters and accompanied by a deluxe 12-page booklet. Bettye LaVette will be touring extensively worldwide throughout 2008...see tour dates >> Tell Me A Lie will be available for purchase online May 20 through Reel Music >> and Amazon.com >>
Tommy Castro, Bettye LaVette and the late great Muddy Waters took home top awards at The Blues Foundation’s prestigious Blues Music Awards last night (May 8) in Tunica, Mississippi. Tommy Castro won big with his first two Blues Music Awards, honored with the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award and also for Best Contemporary Blues Album for his most recent CD, Painkiller. Bettye LaVette was recognized as Best Contemporary Blues Female Artist, her second Blues Music Award. Former Rosebud artist, the late Muddy Waters, won Best Historical Album for Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down, an album of previously unreleased recordings with Johnny Winter and James Cotton. Rosebud artists Duke Robillard and Ruthie Foster also received nominations this year. The Blues Music Awards are the highest recognition in the blues world, often touted as the Grammys of the Blues. Catch The Tommy Castro Band on tour throughout North America this year...see tour dates >>
Bettye LaVette, a 2008 Grammy nominee and just announced as winner of two Blues Critic Awards (Best Soul Blues Album and Best Blues Singer: Female) topped best of 2007 lists around the world. LaVette came in at #9 on Entertainment Weekly's Best Records of the Year and landed the #1 spot on No Depression's critics' poll. Entertainment Weekly dubbed LaVette as “a force of nature we’ll just have to settle on labeling as awesome.” Scene of the Crime also conquered Best of ’07 lists in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune. LaVette was also celebrated in Best Of polls in music magazines and online outlets including Mojo, Paste, Harp, All Music Guide, Pop Matters, Metromix, Living in Stereo and countless others. Scene of the Crime is available at Amazon.com. Catch Bettye LaVette on tour in 2008. - see tour dates >>
Rosebud artists Bettye LaVette and Mavis Staples scored spots in the top 35 of Village Voice's annual "Pazz & Jop Poll" for LaVette’s Scene Of The Crime and Staples’ We'll Never Turn Back. The annual poll combines ballots from 577 critics’ Top 10 lists to acknowledge the best albums of 2007. Additional Rosebud artists whose CDs were honored were Bill Frisell (for his work with Floratone and with Paul Motian and Joe Lovano) Loudon Wainwright III, Meshell Ndegeocello, Ruthie Foster, Pieta Brown, Ann Savoy and the late Muddy Waters. Compilations that featured Rosebud artists were Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur (Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars), Goin Home: A Tribute To Fats Domino (Allen Toussaint, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Trombone Shorty and Marcia Ball) and Song Of America (The Blind Boys of Alabama and Bettye LaVette). See the full list of albums at: Village Voice's annual "Pazz & Jop Poll" >>
Bettye LaVette, riding high in the wake of her first Grammy nomination, will appear on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on January 16th. Bettye’s first Grammy nod comes under the category of 'Best Contemporary Blues Album'. Out less than 4 months, the CD continues to win accolades on a daily basis. The ANTI Records CD, Scene Of The Crime, was recorded with The Drive By Truckers and it’s all over the 'Best of 2007' lists. She has also just been nominated for three Blues Music Awards. Betty will be touring throughout the US and Europe in 2008 - see tour dates >>
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Bettye LaVette's Tell Me A Lie Set For Re-Issue May 20
Tommy Castro, Bettye LaVette and the late Muddy Waters Score Blues Music Awards
Bettye LaVette's Winning Year Continues
Bettye LaVette, Mavis Staples And More Rosebud Artists Recognized In Village Voice Pazz & Jop Poll
Bettye LaVette On Conan O'Brien January 16th