Interpretations The British Rock Songbook
In 2008, bluesy songstress Bettye LaVette’s tribute interpretation of The Who’s “Love Reign O’er Me” at the Kennedy Center honors was considered one of its highlight performances and left everyone asking, “Who Is this lady and where has she been”?
LaVette has been her all along built a slow and steady career with her gritty R&B vocals. For more than 40 years, she constantly played gigs and did a six-year on Broadway in Bubbling Brown Sugar, but never gained the heights of many of her Detroit hometown friends.
Now, four decades later, the spotlight is basking in the warmth of her voice. In 2005, her CD I Got My Own Hell To Raise drew both critical and commercial acclaim. Within a year, she had two knockout performances with her Kennedy Center tribute and when she was paired with Jon Bon Jovi to sing “A Change Is Gonna Come” at the We Are One Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial.
Tune in at 8PM Central Time on Blogtalk Radio’s Conversations With Linda to hear the woman who brought tears to Peter Townsend’s eyes.
