Renowned for making sad tunes sadder, song stylist extraordinaire Bettye LaVette was strikingly upbeat the other day, for two reasons. First, she had just learned that morning that one of her old ...

Bettye LaVette has sung on Broadway, been nominated for a Grammy and performed for President Obama. On her latest album, she reinterprets songs by the likes of Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd ...

Detroit rhythm and blues singer Bettye Lavette had a couple of hit records in the 1960s. After that, she disappeared from the charts, but that doesn't mean she stopped working and recording. On her ...

BETTYE LAVETTE: (Singing) Don't even get me started. Don't, 'cause you know I can't stop. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: That's the unmistakable, seasoned, sultry, outlaw voice of Bettye LaVette. Her new album ...

Twenty years ago Bettye LaVette declared that that “I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise,” and she hasn’t stopped doing it since. The Muskegon-born singer (nee Betty Joe Haskins) — who began her recording ...

Veteran singer Bettye LaVette doesn't listen to music. Yet she has become one of our foremost interpreters of contemporary songs. Think of her rendition of the Who's "Love, Reign o'er Me" at the 2008 ...

Rooted in soul and steeped in rock ‘n’ roll, Reckoners is a Boston-based band built from some of the region’s most respected and road-tested musicians.