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Michigan acts win big at Americana awards: Billy Strings, War and Treaty take top honors
- Lansing's Billy Strings and Albion group the War and Treaty won top categories for a second consecutive year at the Wednesday event in Nashville.
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Bettye LaVette Talks Growing Up With Aretha, Finally Getting Her Own on Soul Sisters
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Bettye LaVette Has No ‘Plan B’ for Self-Titled New Album
The Blues Hall of Famer shared the record's lead single and announced tour dates on Wednesday
- EntertainmentConsequence of Sound
Patti Smith Covers The Beatles’ “She’s Leaving Home” at Paul McCartney Tribute: Watch
The tribute also featured performances from Graham Nash, Denny Laine, Bettye LaVette, Nancy Wilson, and more. Patti Smith Covers The Beatles’ “She’s Leaving Home” at Paul McCartney Tribute: Watch Eddie Fu
- EntertainmentComplex
ODESZA Release New Song "Love Letter" f/ the Knocks, Announce 'The Last Goodbye' Album
Following a nearly five-year studio album hiatus, ODESZA announced their next record 'The Last Goodbye,' which is scheduled to drop this summer.
- EntertainmentComplex
ODESZA Returns With First Song in 4 Years, "The Last Goodbye" f/ Bettye LaVette
After a four-year hiatus, ODESZA has returned with their new single “The Last Goodbye,” featuring vocals from Bettye LaVette’s 1965 song “Let Me Down Easy."
- EntertainmentHartford Courant
Courant art picks for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 include a lot of music and a little arsenic
Everyone’s got a song to sing this week: A joint club tribute to the Grateful Dead and Bob Marley. ABBAmania stronger than ever. Marc Cohn walking in Connecticut. Glorified bar carousers The Choir of Man. A Sondheim classic. Here are your best bets for a week’s entertainment. Bettye’s back Bettye Lavette, one of the great blues and soul singers of our time, is at Infinity Hall, 32 Front St., ...
- EntertainmentSPIN
John Lennon Tribute Concert to Feature Patti Smith, Jackson Browne and More
The 40th Annual John Lennon Tribute, featuring previously unseen and newly recorded performances Jackson Browne, Patti Smith, Natalie Merchant, Taj Mahal, Rosanne Cash, Bettye LaVette and more can be viewed online beginning on the late Beatles' birthday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. ET. It will be shown through Oct. 12 at Midnight and benefits…
- EntertainmentVariety
Blues Foundation Teams With SiriusXM to ‘Power’ B.B. King’s Bluesville Channel
SiriusXM and the Blues Foundation are set to announce on Monday that they're teaming up for the latter org to provide content for the B.B. King's Bluesville channel. The collaboration will have the Foundation providing archival content from signature events like its annual Blues Hall of Fame induction events, along with the broadcast premiere of […]
- EntertainmentVariety
Bettye LaVette’s ‘Blackbirds’ Is a Fierce Fête of Iconic Black Female Voices: Album Review
Bettye LaVette is widely -- and wisely -- revered as one of our greatest living rhythm and blues singers, and maybe right there at the pinnacle. Her star as a knock-down, drag-out, leave-no-prisoners stylist has risen in the decade and a half since she made her return to prominence in her late 50s, 60s and […]
- EntertainmentAssociated Press
Review: Bettye LaVette’s ‘Blackbirds’ celebrates Black women
The wise intuition and emotional commitment of Bettye LaVette’s interpretative skills find an ideal setting on “Blackbirds,” a collection of songs mostly associated with Black women, from Nina Simone to Billie Holiday. Supported by a quartet including producer-drummer Steve Jordan, keyboardist Leon Pendarvis, guitarist Smokey Hormel and bassist Tom Barney, LaVette’s customary transformation of the source material intensifies its sentiments, whether of abandonment, yearning and even sheer brutal
- EntertainmentEntertainment Weekly
Friday Five: Snoh Aalegra struggles with an all-consuming love, 100 gecs team up with Fall Out Boy, and more
The five best songs we heard this week.
