Bettye Lavette

Bettye Lavette appears in the following:

Bettye LaVette: LaVette! (A Listening Party)

Friday, March 29, 2024

[REBROADCAST FROM January 18, 2024] Bettye LaVette recorded her first single at the age of sixteen and soon made her debut on the R&B charts in the early 1960s. Six decades later, now...

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Bettye LaVette: LaVette! (Grammy Listening Party)

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Bettye LaVette's latest album, LaVette! nominated for the Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album. She joins us for a Listening Party ahead of the February awards show.

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Soundcheck Writers Club: Bettye Lavette, Michael Chabon

Friday, July 05, 2013

In this episode: Singer Bettye Lavette has chronicled the rough side of the '60s soul scene in a memoir called A Woman Like Me. The Detroit native gives her brutally honest take on he...

Bettye Lavette Is 'Thankful N' Thoughtful' In New Memoir

Monday, December 03, 2012

R&B singer Bettye Lavette talks about the ups and downs of her fifty-year career, as detailed in a new memoir, called A Woman Like Me. And, she reflects on her recent successes, inclu...

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Bettye LaVette, Oscars Preview, Gabriel Kahane

Monday, December 03, 2012

Iconic R&B singer Bettye LaVette tells all in her dramatic new memoir. Melena Ryzik of the New York Times' Carpetbagger column on this year's Oscars season. And Gabriel Kahane perform...