bettye lavette “what was it you wanted”
from: things have changed, 2018
Bettye LaVette’s vocal prowess operates in a state of sophisticated collapse. On the brink, it falters and quivers, deeply transporting her emotions. Whoever a song may have belonged to before (in this case Bob Dylan), it takes on her distinctive signature. A weeping, expansive, versatile, original reading that rips open and discovers new territory to find in a composition. Hard to know where this comes from. Been in Detroit and been at it for sixty years. A behind the .scenes giantess