Bettye LaVette live in concert.
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Bettye LaVette

26
critic concert reviews
folk

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

75
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Critic Consensus

Based on 26 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Bettye LaVette is rated as an enjoyable live performer, with some notable strengths. Bettye LaVette concert reviews describe live shows and performances as powerful, impassioned, flawless, eccentric, and soothing.

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Let Me Down Easy: Bettye LaVette In Memphis (24 May 2024)

Artist Info

Genre
folk
Origin
Muskegon, United States (1/29/1946)
Bio
Bettye LaVette (born Betty Jo Haskins, January 29, 1946) is an American soul singer-songwriter who made her first record at sixteen, but achieved only intermittent fame until 2005, with her album I've Got My Own Hell to Raise. Her eclectic musical style combines elements of soul, blues, rock and roll, funk, gospel, and country music.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

Exclaim (Canada)

June 26, 2018
80
%
Was tasked with assembling an A-list of local players and guest singers, and he acquitted himself admirably. The house band comprised guitarists Marks and Chris Whiteley, saxophonist Carrie Chesnutt, bassist Justine Fischer and drummer Shamakah Ali, and the vocalists delivering two songs apiece were Marks, Di

Americana Highways (USA)

May 24, 2018
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Bettye LaVette recently signed with the luminous Verve Records for her project Things Have Changed, an interpretation of Bob Dylan songs.

Grateful Web (USA)

August 30, 2015
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The “Great Lady of Soul” earned her nickname the hard way staying true to herself and her dream for decades before the world finally listened.

The Guardian (UK)

December 12, 2012
80
%
Not only are there gravel and guts in her voice she has a caustic survivor's wit that warns you not to trifle with her.

The Guardian (UK)

June 18, 2010
80
%
Purcell Room Southbank Centre, London, UK

The Skinny (UK)

June 15, 2006
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She sings like her larynx has been kept in a rosewood cabinet out of sunlight gaining more and more resonance with each passing year.

Music-News.com (UK)

November 11, 2005
80
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With a voice combining the best of Tina Turner Etta James Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin a€ smooth raw powerful and electric the almost 60 year old delivered a singing masterclass.

Past critic reviews published in

Distorted Sound Magazine (UK), The Skinny (UK), The Scotsman (Scotland), Substream Magazine (USA), V13 (Canada) and more

Image Credit

Tore Saetre [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons