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peninsularian · 6 months

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1982, from LA based Motown

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krispyweiss · 7 months

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Day No. 2, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Sept. 30, 2023

Leyla McCalla controls the weather.

An overcast day in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park suddenly turned sun-soaked when the former Carolina Chocolate Drop sang: My face to the sun as she performed Our Native Daughters’ “I Knew I Could Fly” during her Sept. 30 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass set on the Towers of Gold Stage.

“That’s awesome,” she said mid-verse as the Earth’s star emerged from the afternoon clouds.

Following the electric and steel guitar instrumentals of Hermanos Gutiérrez on the adjacent Swan stage and playing cello, banjo and electric guitar, backed with rhythm section and electric guitar, McCalla covered Kendrick Lamar’s “Crown” and offered a gumbo of New Orleanian, Haitian and American music delivered in English and Haitian Creole while showcasing her the Capitalist Blues and Breaking the Thermometer LPs.

The Sound Biteses’ day had begun in the pre-noon fog with the down-in-the-holler, old-time string music of Dry Branch Fire Squad playing the songs of Gillian Welch, Doc Watson and Bill Monroe on the Banjo stage. Later, it was gospel from the McCrary Sisters, who sung Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground,” “Amazing Grace” and other numbers backed by a full band during short, five- to 15-minute sets on the Rooster stage, where Brennan Leigh offered a lunchtime menu of traditional country music.

It was also on the Rooster that Emmylou Harris previewed her Sunday appearance by guesting with Shawn Camp and Verlon Thompson and closing their Doc Watson tribute set with Guy Clark’s “Old Friends.”

Shortly afterward, Bettye LaVette sauntered onstage to deliver her grinding version of Bob Dylan’s “Things Have Changed.” From here, it was an impassioned reading of songs from the Randall Bramblett-written LaVette! album as the singer prowled the stage and proved her 77 years have cost her nothing in vocal prowess and stage presence.

“If I could write, this is what I would have said,” LaVette said in introducing the new songs, which worked better on stage than on wax.

Rickie Lee Jones attracted a ginormous crowd to Banjo - “I haven’t seen so many people in front of me for so long,” she said, soaking it in - and their enthusiasm rubbed off. Jones, whose band included Vilray on guitar and vocals, plus accordion and bass, was animated as she danced around the stage and crooned like a lounge singer when she wasn’t playing guitar, banjo or piano.

Opening with a radically rearranged “Danny’s All-Star Joint” more suited for the streets of New Orleans than the fields of Golden Gate, Jones went on to perform “I Won’t Grow Up” - for the first time, she said - “Last Chance Texaco,” “We Belong Together” and a sinewy rendition of Steely Dan’s “Show Biz Kids” that found Jones lifting her orange sweater to sing of the Rickie Lee T-shirt beneath.

Give RLJ the MVP for turning in HSB No. 2’s No. 1 gig.

Faced with the quintessential festivalgoers’ dilemma, Mr. and Mrs. Sound Bites split the last hour between Steve Earle’s uncharacteristically sleepy solo-acoustic set on the Banjo and Irma Thomas’ barnburner R&B/soul revival at the Rooster.

At 82, Thomas played the day’s most rambunctious set, ripping into “Time is on My Side” and getting the audience bouncing and waving their handkerchiefs on her mashup of “I Done Got Over It” -> “Iko Iko” -> “Hey Pocky Way” -> “I Done Got Over It.” That one might be ringing through Golden Gate’s trees along with the birdsong for some time to come.

Read Sound Bites’ coverage of HSB Day One here.

10/1/23

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madeinthesixties · 1 year

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Bettye LaVette

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randomberlinchick · 1 year

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Watch "Kennedy Center Honors - Bettye LaVette - Love Reign" on YouTube

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Another musical gift from my new pal 🤗 She killed this cover...

#Youtube #bettye lavette #the who #love reign

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onyxofnight · 2 years

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#music #odesza #the last goodbye #bettye lavette #Spotify

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rastronomicals · 2 years

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12:57 PM EDT April 30, 2022:

Bettye LaVette - "The Word" From the album Fab Gear! Mojo Presents 15 Customised Beatles Covers (November 2021)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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greaterstokesawareness · 2 years

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Collection: Brian Stokes Mitchell performs at the Hollywood Bowl tribute to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee, July 27, 2022

[Brian Stokes Mitchell performs at the Hollywood Bowl tribute to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee, other guests included Billie Eilish, Debbie Harry, Dianne Reeves, Bettye LaVette, Christian McBride, Seth McFarlane, and the Count Basie Orchestra, July 27, 2022].

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Set List of songs below that Stokes performed with links to audience videos: [full program set list (x) from Dave Glasser's facebook (x)]

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#brian stokes mitchell #hollywood bowl #frank sinatra #peggy lee #dianne reeves #billie eilish #debbie harry #seth mcfarlane #bettye lavette #christian mcbride #count basie orchestra #greater stokes awareness

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holdenreviews · 7 months

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The Last Goodbye - ODESZA feat. Bettye LaVette

#The Last Goodbye #Bettye LaVette #ODESZA #Youtube

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jmunneytumbler · 11 months

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Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 6/16/23

Shh! It’s a SECRET Invasion (CREDIT: Marvel Studios) Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out. Movies –Asteroid City (Theaters) –The Blackening (Theaters) –Elemental (Theaters) –The Flash (Theaters) TV –The Righteous Gemstones Season 3 Premiere (June 18 on HBO) –Secret Invasion Series Premiere (June…

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#Asteroid City #Átta #Bettye LaVette #Cat Stevens #Django Django #Elemental #In Times New Roman...#King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard #King of a Land #LaVette!#Off Planet #PetroDragonic Apocalypse or Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation #Queens of the Stone Age #Secret Invasion #Sigur Ros #The Blackening #The Flash #The Righteous Gemstones #Yusuf

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seymourmusicclub · 11 months

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Kennedy Center Honors - Bettye LaVette - Love Reign

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sonicziggy · 1 year

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"Plan B" by Bettye LaVette https://ift.tt/Z7KneFl

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krispyweiss · 10 months

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Graham Nash is 2023 John Lennon Real Love Award Winner

- “This is a very special award,” Nash says

Graham Nash is the 2023 John Lennon Real Love award winner.

Nash will receive the honor and play his favorite Beatles/Lennon songs at the 43rd-annual John Lennon Tribute Dec. 2 in New York. Rosanne Cash, Rita Coolidge, Marc Cohn, Shawn Colvin, Judy Collins and Bettye LaVette are among the other scheduled performers.

“This is a very special award,” Nash said in a statement.

“I thank Yoko (Ono) and the Theatre Within for thinking of me. Over many years, I watched John and Yoko fight the good fight for many whose voices were not being heard, a fight that Yoko continues to this day. I’m proud to be associated with the many fine artists who were previously honored with the … award.”

Those artists include Cash, Joan Osborne, Ani DiFranco, Natalie Merchant, Donovan and others.

Proceeds from the event benefit Theatre Within’s programs for elementary and middle schools, youth in crisis and people affected by cancer.

“Theatre Within is furthering the vision that John and I shared for a better world,” Ono said in a statement.

7/11/23