Bettye LaVette
"The Scene Of The Crim"
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January 19 - 25, 2025
Year of Release: 2007
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I Still Want To Be Your Baby
(Take Me Like I Am)
Choices
Jealousy
You Don't Know Me At All
Somebody Pick Up My Pieces
They Call It Love
The Last Time
Talking Old Soldiers
Before The Money Came
(The Battle Of
Bettye LaVette)
I Guess We Shouldn't Talk
About That Now
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Bettye LaVatte is a Soul/Blues singer, who recorded her first album at 16 years old. She has released 12 studio albums
throughout her career (1982-2023). Also, she has many compilations to her name. Two of her studio albums reached #1 on
Billboard's Blues Albums Chart. Her first #1 is reviewed this week - The Scene Of The Crime, released in 2007.
If you're looking for good (rockin') Blues music, The Scene Of The Crime is a definite listen.
Leading off the album is a true Blues rocker, with grit - "I Still Want To Be Your Baby (Take Me Like I Am)"
(originally recorded by Eddie Hinton). "Choices" (originally recorded by George Jones) is a ballad, and Ms. LaVette
can sing the Blues, either slow (as in this one), and can rock it, Blues style, as in the opening track. Good, slow-moving
Blues gets "Jealousy" (originally recorded by Frankie Miller), another very good Blues tune. "You Don't
Know Me At All" (originally recorded by Don Henley) is another good Blues rocker. With a title such as "Somebody
Pick Up My Pieces" (originally recorded by Willie Nelson), it sounds like it could be a slow-driven Blues song. And
yes, it certainly is. Another song that proves that Bettye LaVette can sing the slow-paced Blues songs.
"They Call It Love" (originally recorded by Ray Charles) has a great moving Blues sound; another good Blues
rocker. "The Last Time" (originally recorded by John Hiatt) keeps the Blues rocking. "Talking Old Soldiers"
(originally recorded by Elton John) is another great slow-paced song, have a great blues and jazz feel. Bettye LaVette
co-wrote the next song, "Before The Money Came (The Battle Of Bettye LaVette)" -- another great moving Blues track.
Ending the album is the slow-paced (another great tune), "I Guess We Shouldn't Talk About That Now."
Bettye LaVette can certainly sing the Blues -- whether it be the common Blues with Rock, and the slow-paced Blues
ballads. She has the Blues grit in her voice, and it adds more greatness in the rocking Blues songs contained on this
album. The Scene Of The Crime may be "crime based" Blues, but it still proves to have great Blues tracks, in each
and every song on the album. Listen to the great Blues on The Scene Of The Crime by Bettye LaVettte. You won't
be disappointed. Her other #1 Blues album was Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook. Her cover versions
of British legends, such as The Beatles, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and more. A review of that album will appear
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