The Vinyl Countdown # 243

Bettye LaVette, The Scene of the Crime (2007)

I saw Bettye LaVette in concert close to 20 years ago – she was a nobody in a way, she’d had the first phase of her career and hadn’t yet had the mighty comeback. But shit she was good! It was obvious she was a ferocious talent. And a year or two after that gig she was climbing back into view with a run of gr…