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This Spring, five-time Grammy-nominee and Blues Hall of Fame inductee Bettye LaVette will release a new album, Blackbirds, produced by Steve Jordan, on Verve Records. It features songs primarily popularized by women who were the bridge she came across on. These women helped to set the stage for Bettye and her contemporaries. The album finds LaVette in top form with powerful renditions of songs that touched her Dinah Washingtons Drinking Again, Nina Simones I Hold No Grudge, Billie Holidays Strange Fruit, Nancy Wilsons Save Your Love For Me and more, they are all delivered in LaVettes rich and raspy tone and a touch of the blues. Blackbirds takes Bettye back to her roots, honoring her heritage as an R&B singer and the women who came before her. LaVette A&Rd and sequenced the record herself her first true curation. Bettye Lavette is a native of Detroit who made her first recording in 1962 at the age of sixteen. She later toured with the James Brown Review and charted with such singles as He Made A Woman Out Of Me and Do Your Duty. Since then she has recorded ten albums.
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