Bettye LaVette Is Garnering Early Raves and Letterman Booking for Her Upcoming Anti-CD 'I'VE GOT MY OWN HELL TO RAISE' Out September 27

Bettye LaVette Is Garnering Early Raves and Letterman Booking for Her Upcoming Anti-CD 'I'VE GOT MY OWN HELL TO RAISE' Out September 27

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Although her CD release is nearly a month away, BETTYE LaVETTE is already garnering rave reviews and early television bookings for her forthcoming record 'I'VE GOT MY OWN HELL TO RAISE.' On July 28 Bettye was invited to perform with Paul Schaffer and his band, delivering a heart rending version of the Dolly Parton tune "Little Sparrow," and on August 11, she played to a spellbound audience at the Echo in Los Angeles.

Here's some of what Richard Cromelin of the Los Angeles Times had to say of her awe-inspiring performance: "... a Detroit singer ... attaining stature as one of music's overlooked and under appreciated greats ... LaVette unleashed a voice of volcanic power, focused and guided by a theatrical sensibility. She also created moments of painful intimacy, relying on the supple phrasing she developed from studying such masters as Frank Sinatra.

With her gritty, raspy timbre, LaVette transformed such selections as Lucinda Williams' 'Joy,' Joan Armatrading's 'Down To Zero' and Dolly Parton's 'Little Sparrow' into searing, Southern-soul statements of pain and determination.

She ended with the album's opening song, an unaccompanied version of [Sinead] O'Connor's 'I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got,' in which her combination of shredded, ragged texture and unyielding force captured the lyric's mix of trial and affirmation. It was a gripping moment, and the audience honored it with rapt attention."

Elsewhere Don Waller noted in City Beat: "LaVette celebrated the forthcoming release of her latest album 'I'VE GOT MY OWN HELL TO RAISE,' climaxing her hour-plus performance with an a cappella rendition of Sinead O'Connor's 'I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got' that was so raw, so fluid, so emotionally naked that time ... stood ... still ... like a giant silence bomb exploded and the only sound left, the sole expression of human spirit in the world, was her voice."

The CD, 'I'VE GOT MY OWN HELL TO RAISE,' comes out on Anti- Records September 27.

Source: Anti-Records

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