Bettye LaVETTE

⬇️BETTYE LaVETTE⬇️

(Betty Jo Haskins)
DISCOGRAPHY 1970-2023 (28CD/DVD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

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.

LaVette was born in Muskegon, Michigan, and raised in Detroit. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she did not begin singing in the church, but in her parents' living room, singing R&B and country and western music. She was signed by Johnnie Mae Matthews, a local record producer.

In 1962, aged sixteen, she recorded a single, "My Man — He's a Lovin' Man", with Matthews: the disc was credited to Betty LaVett, the surname being "borrowed" from Sherma Lavette Anderson, the singer's friend who had introduced her to Matthews Picked up by Atlantic Records, LaVette's disc became a major R&B hit over the fall and winter of 1963-63 - eventually reaching the R&B Top Ten - resulting in LaVette touring with such Atlantic Records R&B hitmakers as Clyde McPhatter, Ben E. King, Barbara Lynn, and rising star Otis Redding.

After two overlooked single releases in respectively 1963 and 1964, LaVette in 1965 returned to the R&B charts with "Let Me Down Easy" on Calla Records, her first release to be credited to Betty LaVette: [4] the spelling of the singer's first name as Bettye would date from her 1977 Bubbling Brown Sugar gig. Though only a peripheral success with an R&B chart peak of #48, "Let Me Down Easy" afforded LaVette sufficient cachet to briefly tour with The James Brown Revue.

After recording several singles for local Detroit labels, LaVette signed to the Silver Fox label in 1969. She cut a handful of tracks, including two Top 40 R&B hits: "He Made A Woman Out Of Me" and "Do Your Duty".

The Memphis studio musicians on these recordings have since become known as The Dixie Flyers. In 1972, she signed once again with Atlantic/Atco. She was sent to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama to record what was to be her first full-length album. Titled Child of the Seventies, it was produced by Brad Shapiro and featured the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, now known as The Swampers, but Atco chose not to issue the album.

In 2020, LaVette was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame..... (Wikipedia)

NEW!

1991-Not Gonna Happen Twice @FLAC

2013–The Golden Sound of Bettye Lavette @FLAC

2023-LaVette! @FLAC24-96

VARIOUS ARTISTS

VA-Original Grooves (EP) @FLAC24-192