The Scene of the Crime
Bettye LaVette
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I Still Want to Be Your Baby (Take Me Like I Am) | Bettye LaVette | 3:45 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Choices | Bettye LaVette | 3:04 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Jealousy | Bettye LaVette | 5:36 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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You Don't Know Me At All | Bettye LaVette | 3:58 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Somebody Pick Up My Pieces | Bettye LaVette | 5:22 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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They Call It Love | Bettye LaVette | 3:57 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Last Time | Bettye LaVette | 2:58 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Talking Old Soldiers | Bettye LaVette | 4:26 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Before the Money Came (Battle of Bettye LaVette) | Bettye LaVette | 4:30 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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I Guess We Shouldn't Talk About That Now | Bettye LaVette | 3:46 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Songs |
iTunes Review
Soul music veteran Bettye LaVette sees things come full circle with her 2007 studio release The Scene of the Crime. Recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama (“the scene of the crime”), 35 years after her 1972 album, Child of the Seventies, was shelved by Atlantic Records, it fires back on all cylinders. “Before the Money Came (The Battle of Bettye Lavette),” the one original composition co-written with producer and Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood, captures LaVette’s deep pain and bitterness over this career-inhibiting move. Elsewhere, she employs the same tough, schooled and scarred voice for a well-chosen collection of tunes, from the gentle dissipation of Willie Nelson’s “Somebody Pick Up My Pieces,” the wry truths of the George Jones hit “Choices” and the out-of-left-field cover of Elton John’s “Talking Old Soldiers” that immediately becomes an R&B standard in LaVette’s experienced hands. Drive-By Truckers and Muscle Shoals veterans David Hood and Spooner Oldham provide solid, restrained backing that make this a modern, yet essentially undated and unpretentious, soul music recording.
Customer Reviews
It's a crime there are only 5 reviews of this album!
I almost want to thank Atlantic for shelving that album 35 years ago because maybe Bettye would not be the treasure she is today had she been swept into the mainstream. I listen to this and her two previous albums perhaps more than anything else in my collection. I've Got My Own Hell to Raise deserved the attention it got - but this is equally deserving. A completely different album - dirtier, with judicious, wonderful instrumental solos (the pedal steel on Somebody Pick Up My Pieces really gets me!) That track and Talking Old Soldiers are so good they almost make it hard to notice how good the rest of the album is. Somehow I think the real Bettye has more to do with no-foolin' tracks like The Last Time and You Don't Know Me At All. I agree with another reviewer - you put this entire album on to listen to start to finish.
Songs interpreted as only Bettye can
If you are looking for studio made pretty vocals, then this album is not for you, but if you want some knock-you-right-in-the -face sangin', then hurry up and purchase this one. Ms. B has been on the scene for years, yet she never got her props until the most recent years. She never stopped working however,, and it show on this album. You can't even pretend with these vocalsm meaning she had to live these songs at some point and time in life. Talk about keeping it real? This is the most raw and real album I have heard in a long time. "Talking Old Soldiers" will just make you cry! Not one bad song on here. Oh, and if sheis ever in your town......GO SEE HER LIVE!!!!! I love this woman, can you tell.....BTW, she is fine too! Enjoy!
AGAIN!!!
She has done it again. I just bought this album and it is great. I love Choices and Talking Old Soldiers. I listen to the entire album every time.
Biography
Born: January 26, 1946 in Muskegon, MI
Genre: R&B/Soul
Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s
Top Albums and Songs By Bettye LaVette
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Before the Money Came (Battle of Bettye LaVette) | The Scene of the Crime | 4:30 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Choices | The Scene of the Crime | 3:04 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Love Reign O'er Me (Live from the Kennedy Center Honors) | Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook | 5:31 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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I Still Want to Be Your Baby (Take Me Like I Am) | The Scene of the Crime | 3:45 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Talking Old Soldiers | The Scene of the Crime | 4:26 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Somebody Pick Up My Pieces | The Scene of the Crime | 5:22 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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They Call It Love | The Scene of the Crime | 3:57 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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You Don't Know Me At All | The Scene of the Crime | 3:58 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Jealousy | The Scene of the Crime | 5:36 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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I Guess We Shouldn't Talk About That Now | The Scene of the Crime | 3:46 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
