Bettye LaVette’s ‘Blackbirds’ Is a Fierce Fête of Iconic Black Female Voices: Album Review
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variety.comChris Willman Music WriterBettye LaVette is widely — and wisely — revered as one of our greatest living rhythm and blues singers, and maybe right there at the pinnacle.
Her star as a knock-down, drag-out, leave-no-prisoners stylist has risen in the decade and a half since she made her return to prominence in her late 50s, 60s and now early 70s after decades of having seemed publicly MIA.
But her comeback hasn’t been fueled by mining the great American R&B songbook for material. She’s remade her name these past 15 or so years by putting a blues spin on rock songs, for the most part, in conceptual albums from “I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise” (in which she covered female singer-songwriters like Fiona Apple and Aimee Mann) to “Interpretations:.
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