The Scene of the Crime

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艺人: Bettye LaVette
语种: 英语
厂牌: Anti
发行时间: 2007年09月25日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Thom Jurek

On the surface, it may seem that pairing soul survivor Bettye LaVette with Southern rockers the Drive-By Truckers is a match made in hell, and no one could be blamed for that assumption. Since LaVette singed to Anti for 2005's I've Got My Own Hell to Raise, an album produced by Joe Henry that brought her back into the public eye after more than 30 years (she did record and continued to sing, and was in no way retired), the stakes were higher for her return effort. Label president Andy Kaulkin is a cagey guy who understands that milking a successful formula isn't the way to make records, nor is it any way for an artist of LaVette's stature to be treated -- especially when she's in the prime of her recording life. He suggested the collaboration to the Truckers' Patterson Hood. Hood is from Alabama, the home of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, and his father was co-owner and a session bassist. LaVette recorded what was supposed to be her breakthrough album at Muscle Shoals' Fame Studios for Atlantic (Hood's father David, along with Spooner Oldham, played on the sessions for that disc). But the finished record, Child of the Seventies (and the rest of its studio sessions), sat in the vault for 30 years before being issued in Europe and finally released stateside by Rhino Handmade in 2005 -- after she'd won a W.C. Handy Award for Woman Like Me on Blues Express (her actual return to recording in America after 20 years) in 2003, and her critically acclaimed Anti debut that reached an even bigger audience. ... Read More...

The Scene of the Crime

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