Article: Bettye LaVette - Soul Legend Signs to Anti.

Article: Bettye Lavette
Pittsburgh City Paper;  June 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Lavette Free Bettye! BETTYE LAVETTE 7:30 p.m. Fri ... album by soul singer Bettye Lavette, is that of authenticity ... Etheridge from your Solomon Burke - or from 40-year soul-music veteran Bettye Lavette's Anti Records debut ...

Article: The Constant Crooner; Bettye LaVette Keeps the Soul ...
The Stranger;  October 20, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... rediscovered in the 1990s. Solomon Burke, the "King of Rock & ... of mortuaries. But not Bettye LaVette. In the four decades between ... saying, 'Hi, my name is Bettye LaVette,' and do a show on everyone ... Newspapers LLC. Photograph (BETTYE LaVETTE; Still raising hell)

Article: FOR BETTYE LAVETTE, FAME IS FINALLY WITHIN REACH ...
The Boston Globe;  September 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... call this sterling moment in singer Bettye LaVette's long career a comeback, since ... He was one of the architects behind Solomon Burke's Grammy Award-winning 2002 comeback ... singers, but I'd never heard about Bettye LaVette," says Kaulkin, who signed LaVette ...

Article: Bettye LaVette's persistence and Motown origins pay ...
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  June 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ...There's something to be said for persistence. Bettye LaVette is a main-stage headliner now, at last -- but ... was a similar treatment to the one he gave soul king Solomon Burke -- one that removed the syrupy, synthesizer-laden ...

Article: BETTYE LAVETTE "I've Got ...
The Washington Post;  November 25, 2005 ;     414 words ... ... R&B singers have been undervalued and overlooked, but Bettye LaVette has had a tougher time than most. This raspy-throated ... album, "I've Got My Own Hell to Raise." Henry revived Solomon Burke's career on the 2002 album "Don't Give Up on Me" by ...

Article: DISCS: SOUL - Bettye Lavette I've Got My Own Hell ...
The Independent on Sunday;  September 25, 2005 ;     307 words ...For starters, Bettye Lavette takes Sinead's 'I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got', sings ... persuaded, in a project reminiscent of Jon Spencer's work with Solomon Burke, to record an album of songs written only by women (Aimee Mann ...

Transcript: Bettye LaVette's Journey To The National Stage
NPR Fresh Air;  January 23, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... DAVIES NPR Fresh Air 01-23-2009 Bettye LaVette's Journey To The National Stage Host ... song "A Change Is Gonna Come") Ms. BETTYE LAVETTE: (Singing) I was born by the river ... gonna come ... DAVIES: That's Bettye LaVette singing the Sam Cooke song "A Change ...