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I've Got My Own Hell To Raise (CD)

By: Bettye LaVette (Artist)

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Bettye LaVette Artist Snapshot:

Bettye LaVette is a symbol of gritty persistence in the face of music industry indifference. Though she emerged from the same fecund Detroit music community that gave rise to, among many others, Aretha Franklin and the entire early Motown roster, she remained a relative unknown to those outside the most dedicated of soul circles. In the early 2000s, however, LaVette's career underwent a surprising resurgence, and in 2005 she released I'VE GOT MY OWN HELL TO RAISE. The triumphant, critically acclaimed comeback album featured renditions of songs by the likes of Lucinda Williams, Sinead O'Connor, and Fiona Apple. A tour followed, and in 2007 she released THE SCENE OF THE CRIME, with musical backing by alt-country young guns the Drive-By Truckers.

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DISC 1 for I've Got My Own Hell To Raise (CD) Album By Bettye LaVette (Artist)
1   I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
2   Joy
3   Down To Zero
4   High Road, The
5   On The Surface
6   Just Say So
7   Little Sparrow
8   How Am I Different
9   Only Time Will Tell
10   Sleep To Dream
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (No. 842, p.93) - "...HELL is heaven." - Grade: A-
Uncut (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 - "LaVette's fierce and knowing transformations of material from female writers like Sin‚ad O'Connor, Dolly Parton and Aimee Mann consistently push the levels into the red..."

Title Note

Personnel: Bettye LaVette (vocals); Chris Bruce (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Doyle Bramhall II (electric guitar); Lisa Coleman (piano, Wurlitzer piano, organ); David Piltch (double bass); Paul Bryan (bass guitar); Earl Harvin (drums); Niki Harris, Valerie Watson (background vocals).

Bettye Lavette's superlative a cappella rendition of Sinead O'Connor's "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" is a fitting opener to this raw collection of covers by women songwriters like Lucinda Williams, Joan Armatrading, and Dolly Parton. The job done by Lavette and her exemplary backing band on this superb deep soul set is so thoroughly transformational as to make these pop, rock, and country songs entirely their own. Her voice is rough and heartfelt, palpably carrying a weight of heartbreak, the musicians' performances are intimate and spontaneous, and the songs, from Parton's "Little Sparrow" to Bobbie Cryner's undiscovered masterpiece, "Just Say So," are impeccably well-chosen.

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