Bettye Lavette - Piece Of My Heart.

Bettye Lavette with a song done by Erma Franklin. I've posted Erma's version and also other songs by Bettye.

Bettye Lavette - Piece Of My Heart.

Bettye does a great jobwith this song associated with Erma Franklin

Bettye LaVette - I Heard it Through the Grapevine

Bettye with another Motown classic. I still can't understand why she never got a whole lot more attention back in the 70's.

If I Were Your Woman - Bettye Lavette

Bettye LaVette. Someone I've posted several times before with a great version of a big hit for Gladys Knight and the Pips. Some wonderful pictures of her too. Nice one with Barack Obama!

Bettye LaVette "Blackbird" song by John Lennon/Paul McCartney (Nashville...

Bettye LaVette is not a singer to go to for some smooth soothing background music in a restaurant. She is someone you need to give your full attention to. So it is always great to get a live and close up clip like this one of Blackbird by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Bettye Lavette - Let Me Down Easy

Here's Bettye with the same song she does on Jools Holland's Hootenanny about 45 years later. Immensely powerful Soul singer and she still is today. Amazing.

Bettye Lavette - Let Me Down Easy (Jools Annual Hootenanny 2013)

Bettye Lavette (betty Jo Haskins) was born in1946 is Muskegon Michigan and raised in Detroit. She learned to sing in her parent's home and by 16 had made her first single which was picked up by Atlantic Records and it became a major hit. She toured with some top Atlantic stars like Barbara Lynn and Otis Redding. She signed briefly with Motown and went to Nashville to record for them. Then followed a 6 year period where she did not record but starred in a Broadway production " Bubbling Brown Sugar". Around 2000 some earlier unpublished work with Atlantic was picked up by French and Dutch companies and by 2005 her career really took off winning Comeback Blues album of the year. She has shared the stage with sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Jon Bon Jovi. In 2010 she published her British Rock Songbook. A tribute to Bob Dylan followed. She has been nominated for many awards in the Blues category and has appeared on many prime time TV shows.In 2013 and 2014 she was on Jools Holland's New Year Hootenanny. in 2018 she was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2020was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. She was Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year in 2021, at the age of 75. She is married to Kevin Kiley a musician and antiques dealer. They live in West Orange N.J.

Bettye LaVette - Things Have Changed (Live on eTown)

Bettye Lavette live on eTown 2018 .I'm trying to find out the names of the eTown musicians. They are really great too. I featured them earlier with Marcia Ball. This is Bettye with another Bob Dylan interpretation. You can see her checking the lyrics. Dylan"s words are often very involved!

Bettye LaVette - I Who Have Nothing @ 92Y NY,NY

Bettye LaVette at a 2013 concert in honour of song writer Mike Stoller. On August 16th 2021 I featured this song by Linda Jones and at the time I said that there is Soul then there's Deep Soul And there's Linda Jones. I now believe I've discovered another singer who gets down to that same depth!

Bettye LaVette - It Ain't Me Babe (Audio)

Bettye from her album of Bob Dylan songs at 73 years of age!