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Bettye LaVette Preps Star-Studded New Album & Shares ‘Plan B’ Single

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Singer Bettye LaVette announced a new album, LaVette!, due out on June 16 via Jay-Vee Records. LaVette also shared the single “Plan B.”

Helmed by renowned music director, producer and current Rolling Stones drummer Steve Jordan, LaVette! boasts an impressive array of guest and session musicians. Guests include John Mayer, Jon Batiste, Anthony Hamilton, Steve Winwood, Ray Parker Jr., Rev. Charles Hodges, James Carter and Pedrito Martinez. Jordan drums on the album in the session band also consisting of guitarists Larry Campbell and Chris Bruce, bassist Pino Palladino and keyboardist Leon Pendarvis.

“Bettye LaVette is like a combination of Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and Miles Davis,” Jordan said of the Detroit-raised singer. “When I prepare a band for her, I make sure we have it together. When she joins us, we’re only gonna get one or two takes, because she puts her heart and soul into each performance.”

LaVette! sees Bettye interpreting songs by another renowned musician, Randall Bramblett. “I think he’s the best songwriter I’ve heard in the past 30 years,” LaVette said, “and I just discovered him eight years ago.”

“I’m very happy with what we’ve done,” Bettye added. “It is very, very difficult to please an old woman, but I’m nearly excited.”

“When Bettye gets a hold of a song, it becomes her song,” Jordan explained. “It’s like she wrote it. She’s a great messenger, a communicator, an interpreter.”

Listen to Bettye LaVette on lead single “Plan B” below:

Source: JamBase.com