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Bettye LaVette Doesn't Just Sing Songs, She Inhabits Them on Blackbirds.
Hal Horowitz
https://americansongwriter.com/blackbirds-album-by-bettye-lavette-review/

Click the links below for parts 1 & 2 of an in depth career retrospective including Blackbirds.
Part 1
Part 2

Click the link for an in depth piece on Bettye and Blackbirds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/arts/music/bettye-lavette-blackbirds.html

Bettye’s performance at the 2019 Montclair Jazz Festival was chosen for 2020’s “Best Of” Virtual Festival. Her performance begins at 58:46

Bettye will be taking part in this years BeatleFest. She will be interviewed about her love for the songs of the Beatles, and debuting Blackbird. She will be singing live to the instrumental track. Her time slot is Sunday, August 9 @ 6:30pm EST.
Bettye is extremely pleased to have received two Grammy Nominations for Things Have Changed.
The nominations are for
BEST TRADITIONAL R&B PERFORMANCE - Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight
BEST AMERICANA ALBUM Things Have Changed
Bettye thanks everyone who has helped to make this happen.

Read about Bettye’s past and present in Rolling Stone. here.

Bettye speaks with Talia Schlanger on NPR’s World Cafe.



"Call it blasphemy if you like (and no doubt some will), but on Things Have Changed she does Dylan better than Dylan.” You can read the full review here.